Supporting carers in work & wellbeing – Our exciting partnership with Phoenix Group

We’re delighted to announce our new two-year partnership with Phoenix Group. Together, we’ll be working towards our shared vision of financial resilience, greater employment choice and improved wellbeing for carers.

Thanks to Phoenix Group’s support, we’ll be working together to deliver:

A Carers Employability Programme with Camden Carers Centre

The programme is supporting adult carers with employment opportunities and skills.

This includes supporting carers before they enter the workforce – e.g. helping to build their confidence, understanding any potential impacts on benefits, understanding their rights in employment, and how they can access replacement care.

A Research Project

This is focusing on the economic cost of carers being excluded from the workforce, including lost labour, earnings, productivity and tax. This will help us to better understand the value of investing in the employability of carers, and support carers’ choice and rights in relation to employment.

An Employee Volunteering Programme

As part of our new partnership, we’ll be engaging with Phoenix Group employees across the UK with a range of great volunteering opportunities at local carers centres in our network.

We’re so excited to get this new partnership up and running, and give our huge thanks to Phoenix Group for their generous support!

Phoenix Group bio

Phoenix Group is the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business, managing around £290 billion in assets under administration.

With life expectancy rising and the pension landscape evolving, Phoenix Group provides 12 million customers with a wide range of pensions, savings and life insurance products through its family of brands, including Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure.

Their vision is to support more people on their journey to and through retirement, ensuring they receive the right support at the right time. As a growing and sustainable business, they are united by a common purpose, helping people secure a life of possibilities.

This commitment drives their approach to responsible and sustainable investment decisions, as well as their efforts to create positive change for customers, colleagues and communities. As a FTSE 100 company, they are featured in the FTSE 100 ESG Select Index series and are actively investing in a sustainable future.

Their sustainability goals include achieving net zero carbon operations by 2025 and reducing the carbon emission intensity of approximately £250 billion in investment portfolios by 50% by 2030, with the aim of reaching net zero carbon by 2050 or sooner.

Phoenix Group has also been recognised as a leading employer for many years. They are accredited as a Living Wage Employer, a Living Pension Employer and a Carer Positive Exemplary Employer, offering exceptional support to colleagues who are also carers.