Christies Charity Walk Update
3rd October 2019 by Tullis Russell
Thanks to everybody that has supported us so far, we have completed the Walk of Hope for The Christie at Macclesfield – this is to help fund the development of a new Christie Cancer Centre in East Cheshire.
We have reached an amazing £2,000 and we thank everyone who has donated. If you haven’t yet had chance to donate, our page may still be open for a short time at www.justgiving.com/fundraising/tullis-russell – please help a great cause.
We are now going to apply for some matched funding from the Russell Trust, so watch this space for details of our offline donations.
Thanks from Team Tullis and our canine friends.
Christies Charity 10K Walk of Hope
16th September 2019 by Tullis Russell
On the 21st September 2019, Tullis Russell will enter a company team in the Christies 10K walk of hope in order to raise funds for the satellite care centre in Macclesfield. This is inspired by the care they have given to some of our colleagues and friends over the past few years and is our way of showing our gratitude and giving back to the community.
Every pound raised from the Walk of Hope will help us to fund the development of our new Christie Cancer Centre in East Cheshire.
The centre will be based at Macclesfield District General Hospital and will provide Christie cancer care closer to home for around 40,000 patient visits every year. The new centre will transform cancer care for patients in the East Cheshire area.
We’d be grateful for any support you may choose to offer by way of sponsorship via the following link.
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/tullis-russell
The EOA is 40
5th April 2019 by Tullis Russell
This year – 2019 – The Employee Ownership Association (EOA) are celebrating 40 years of better business together while having set sights on the future and a target of three million employee owners by 2030.
The EOA’s 40th anniversary will be a seminal year, laying down the foundations for a new economic era where the impact of business on individuals, their families and their communities starts to work in the interest of the many, not the few.
As well as looking back at the foundations of the EOA and celebrating successes, once again they will use the stories of the brilliantly successful and diverse businesses from membership that are prospering as a result of transitioning to employee ownership to campaign for more employee ownership in the UK economy with key influencers.
The history of the EOA and its founder Robert Oakeshott
The EOA was established in 1979 by English journalist, economist and social reformer Robert Oakeshott.
In 1979, Oakeshott founded Job Ownership Limited (JOL), a consultancy to advise on industrial co-ops and conversion to the employee-owned model. In its early life JOL was supported by the John Lewis Partnership and Scott Bader as well as those who Robert advised and supported to become employee owned including Scottish papermaker Tullis Russell and Baxi Heating, (now Baxendale) the domestic boiler manufacturer employing 1,200 people near Preston, which converted to an employee benefit trust.
Robert Oakeshott retired in 1999 at which point JOL became a membership organisation and subsequently became the Employee Ownership Association in 2006 – by 2015 it had 200 members and has since grown to over 350 members from across the UK including Tullis Russell.
40 EOA Facts
- The EOA was founded in 1979
- John Lewis Partnership’s first move to employee ownership pre-dated the EOA by 50 years
- Trustee member Arup become employee owned in 1977
- Tullis Russell and Baxi heaters (Baxendale) were two of the first to convert to employee ownership with support from JOL
- The EOA Conference was launched in 2005
- In 2006 the first public service mutual EOA member CSH Surrey was created under the leadership Jo Pritchard
- A mutuals programme was established in 2011 and reignited in 2018
- Actions from the Nuttall Review 2012, led by EOA member Graeme Nuttall OBE of Fieldfisher, have helped to grow the sector.
- The first Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) was established in 2014 – there are now about 250
- The most comprehensive research into employee ownership was published in the report the Ownership Dividend in 2018
Source: EOA Website
