Gender Pay Report 2022- 23

Bailey Caravans Ltd is a Bristol-based family-owned business with over seventy-five years’ experience in leisure vehicle design and manufacture.

Being family-owned is important to both Bailey and its Board of Directors. Our family values and ethos are reflected strongly in how we care for and support our employees; each and every day.

We are One Community, and we recognise the importance of having an inclusive workplace where people are treated equally, regardless of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or religious belief.

This is because we believe that an inclusive, respectful and diverse workplace empowers our employees to be more creative, provides equal opportunities to all for further development and most importantly ensures that we attract and retain the very best talent in our local area. We are extremely proud of our long serving members, many of whom are in senior positions or in highly skilled technical roles.

The proportion of full-pay men and women in each of the four quartile pay bands are as follows:

Having made significant steps towards narrowing the gap, we are pleased to report another positive set of results from our 2023 snapshot data. Year on year we have continued to increase the number of female employees across the business, with 130 employees now working for Bailey. This number represents a 20% increase compared to our 2022 data of 118, which was already an increase of 22% from the year before.

Despite the business growing by 83 additional employees over the year, we have seen no change in our overall mean score and positive movement in the percentage of females in both the Upper and Upper Middle Quartiles.

We feel that these changes represent the investment we have made in how we reward and recognise our employees, and demonstrate our ability to provide both, long term career pathways and attract a more diverse workforce into the business.

Since launching our new set of company values in 2022 called “What Makes Us Bailey” – the business is focused on embedding these values into our employees’ everyday lives and positively reinforcing behaviours that promote equality, inclusivity, and fairness. More information on our values can be found here.

We continue to support a long-term career path for all our employees and have invested heavily in our Operative Promotion Pathway Programme. This programme includes both a commitment as a business to maintain our status as a Living Wage Foundation Employer (a voluntary rate above the Government’s own Living Wage rate) and the creation of clear career pathways that encourages our employees to reach their full potential.

We have also reviewed our total compensation offering and over the last 12 months introduced a range of benefits, from free sanitary wear through a partnership with TOTM , Free Fruit once a month, discounted gym memberships and opportunities for Managers to reward individuals or teams through our internal Values Awards. All these benefits ensure that retain our position as employer of choice in the local area.

Bailey is committed to improving its gender pay equality further and therefore our ambition over the next year will be to focus on the following:

• Continue to embed our grading structure across the business (for all departments), upholding a transparent recruitment practise with regard to salary bands, whilst also supporting our recruitment and retention practises.
• Continue to develop diversity and inclusion within the business through delivering a long-term Diversity & Inclusion Strategy.

Nick Howard

Managing Director, Bailey of Bristol

April 2024