Staff profiles

The following profiles are intended to highlight the typical opportunities, discounts and savings which are part of KCC’s rewards package.

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Lauren

Lauren works part-time in support services, she is a lone parent with 3 children and can find it difficult to make ends meet. When she was going through a particularly difficult time, her cooker broke and the Help Fund was able to give her a loan to find a replacement. Lauren used KentRewards.com for some Christmas presents and now saves on her grocery shopping by getting discounts there too.

Lauren has worked for KCC for more than 5 years so benefits from an extra 3 days annual leave. She asked to sell this which was agreed by her manager.

Savings: Kent Rewards £120, Selling leave £120 (net), Total £240

Miral

Miral is 28 years old and has started work recently in Environment & Regeneration.

She was attracted to KCC because she could see a good career path and the opportunity to make a positive impact on environmental issues is important to her.

Miral was pleased that her salary is more competitive than from her last employer and is impressed by both KCC’s commitment of up to 5 days personal development each year and the wider benefits package on offer. She has already signed up for Spanish lessons making use of the 10% Adult Education discount and she has booked onto a number of the events and trips that the StaffClub offers.

Miral does not live close to where she works but has found that she can save money and has the opportunity to talk with her new friend she has met through the car sharing scheme. This also helps her travel in a ‘greener’ way.

Savings: StaffClub - £45, Car share £400/year, Adult Ed. - £12, Annual Savings £457

Alison

Alison is a school Finance Manager and has been working in various jobs in KCC for 15 years. She finds both her working and domestic lives busy since she has 2 teenage children and elderly parents to look after.

Alison didn’t join the pension scheme at first but realised a final salary pension was good to have and joined later. She now has 11 years pensionable service. She knows it is possible to add to her pension fund in a tax efficient way and will contact Pensions to discuss the options available to her.

Alison wants to have some sort of regular exercise but because of time commitments finds it difficult to take advantage of the discounts available on health and fitness clubs. She lives quite close to work so instead she has signed up for the Cycle2Work scheme enabling her to obtain a bicycle tax free and pay for it out of her salary over 12 months. She chose a £600 bike package and is a higher rate tax payer. She has found that she actually enjoys coming to work this way and sometimes it is quicker than using the car.

Alison heard about the saving she could make using KentRewards.com so decided to look there first. She received 3% cashback on a television costing £650. She has now decided to use KentRewards as much as possible for her normal shopping too.

Savings: Bicycle - £289, KentRewards - £19.50, Total £308.50