THE REQUIREMENTS
There are a few requirements companies must meet to be eligible for our programme. You are eligible to participate if you:
- Have a minimum of 15 employees working in the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland)*
- Have operations in the United Kingdom
- Are publicly or privately held organisation
- Have been in business for at least one year, at the program registration deadline
- Work in the Financial Advice sector (including Paraplanning), or the wider Financial Services community (Wealth Manager, Discretionary Fund Management)**
*To ensure credibility, organisations having 15-24 employees must have an 80% or better response rate on the employee survey. Temporary, per diem, seasonal, independent contractors, consultants, interns and volunteers are not counted in the number of employees or included in the survey process.
**Companies that have wider functions may enter, but only for the part of the business that works directly in or with the above sectors. For instance, a bank can enter on behalf of its financial advice division, but not on behalf of the company as a whole.
Applicant must indicate whether they are a Financial Adviser Firm, or a Financial Adviser division of a larger organisation.
HERE’S HOW TO ENTER
There are three different ways companies can participate.
FIRST – As an individual organisation possessing one Registered Company Number.
SECOND – As the parent/holding company of multiple organisations with one Registered Company Number for all subsidiaries. The parent/holding company must register with all eligible employees working for that parent/holding company.
THIRD – Subsidiaries of a parent/holding organisation may register separately if each subsidiary organisation possesses a separate Registered Company Number. If the organisation has multiple facilities, branches, factories, offices or stores, all locations must be included in the survey if they operate under the same Registered Company Number.
WHO TO INCLUDE
Include all current, full- and part-time United Kingdom employees in the survey process, from the CEO, partners, all the way to line-level employees, including remote employees. Remote employees are defined as employees that work from home or on the road who directly report to a supervisor in the United Kingdom. Employees physically located outside of the United Kingdom are not eligible.
If you are entering as financial advice division, but not on behalf of the company as a whole, please only include employees working for that division or department.
