Center Parcs has launched a car salary sacrifice scheme for its workforce following significant employee interest.
Within a week of the launch, 30% of Center Parcs’ employees had logged in to look at and engage with the scheme. A total of 19 orders have been placed so far.
The organisation introduced the scheme because it wanted to reinvigorate its benefits offering, support recruitment, and deliver national insurance savings while remaining cost-neutral. It also aligns with its existing company car scheme.
It additionally felt that the ability to offer both electric and hybrid cars improves inclusivity and cost-effectiveness, and gives its employees flexibility, while also supporting those who are not yet ready to go fully electric.
The scheme is available to employees at Center Parcs’ head office Forest House in Nottinghamshire, as well as its sites in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire, Woburn Forest in Bedfordshire, Whinfell Forest in Cumbria, Longleat Forest in Wiltshire and Elveden Forest in Suffolk.
To mark the launch, Center Parcs hosted two internal webinars, which were attended by around 100 employees. A live roadshow also took place within the first two weeks of the scheme’s launch, enabling staff to look at some of the available cars and ask questions.
The scheme will be provided by Tusker, which was chosen due to its broad range of both electric and hybrid cars and lifestyle protection offer following a competitive tender process. The provider also won the contract due to its ability to offer a four-weekly payroll compliant system which worked with the employer’s payroll requirements.
Lisa Milburn, benefits manager at Center Parcs, said: “We’ve wanted to offer a salary sacrifice car scheme for a while and there is a lot of excitement around the launch. It’s been very well received by employees so far. Tusker has a proven track record, and when you combine [its] experience with [its] lifestyle protection offering, it gave us what we needed to move forward with the partnership.”
