HR company to double turnover with help from new apprentice

A Staffordshire human resources company that had a dip in turnover during the pandemic is set to double its business in two years with help from a new apprentice.

Ripple HR was set up as a micro business in 2018.

The Lichfield-based company lost business when the pandemic hit, but now has more clients than ever.

Helping to boost the thriving client base is mature apprentice Karen Dungey, who joined in September 2021.

Karen is being supported by a £5,000 grant from the Staffordshire Means Back to Business support initiative.

Grants are available to small businesses across Staffordshire to recruit and support new apprentices from the scheme that brings together funding from all the county council and district councils.

Director and founder of Ripple HR, Jane Galvez, said: “'Karen brings years of skills and knowledge from the education and healthcare sectors with her. With such incredible experience we 're now diversifying into brand new markets.

“I 've always been focussed on Ripple HR growing with a wide range of skills and services for a wider range of clients.

“Bringing Karen in was made possible through the grant that gives us that extra capacity to support her whilst she finishes her HR qualifications which she completes through distance learning. Getting the grant was really quick - it took less than four weeks. ”