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1 a great place to work a great place to be a customer Benefits

2 Available to you as soon as you join Available to you after your probation Available to you after your first year Available to you after your second year Saves you money on tax and national insurance Saves the environment Saves you money Our benefits are just part of your reward for being brilliant. Take a look through our package we think you'll love it. Pensions Access to a company contributory pension. Put in a minimum of 2% of your salary and Chess will add an additional 2%. We pay over 210k a year in pension contributions. Monthly Bonus After you pass your probation you can earn a monthly bonus. Your bonus is linked to KPIs and the company s financial performance. Loyalty Points After 2 years service you'll start to get loyalty points. Loyalty points let you get even better benefits, like; higher levels of healthcare, increased contribution towards your pension, payment towards your gym membership, give you more holidays, or even plant trees to offset your carbon footprint! Life Assurance As soon as you start, you'll get life assurance worth 2x your annual salary free of tax and national insurance to protect your dependents. Company Bonus An annual bonus based on the success of the company. It's paid in June with an interim payment in December. Share Options Periodically share options are awarded to our people. These allow all of us to share the rewards of the Chess growth journey through ownership. Core Benefits Here's our standard stuff first, we know these things are really important to you, so we've made sure we've done them really well. Duvet Days After your first year at Chess you can take a Duvet Day. This is an extra days holiday each year that you can take at short notice. Holidays Start with 20 days and watch them increase on work anniversaries. You'll get bank holidays too. Half-Day Fridays After you pass probation you can start to take one half-day Friday a month. This is open to all Chess people including part-time workers. Make sure you fill in the form and read the rules on Chess Wiki. Sick Leave If you don't need to take any sick leave during the year, you can choose to get a 200 bonus or 2 additional days holiday. 2 Culture Financial Development Health Recognition Wellbeing 3

3 Tastecard Offering up to 50% discount at 6,500 restaurants all over the UK. Get your Tastecard by logging onto the Chess4u website. Discounts Discounts at hundreds of retailers and action packed days out, check out the Chess rewards portal for more information. Family & Friends Discounts Great savings for you, your family & friends. Get any Chess product or service at our cost rate + 10%. Find out more from Colin Henshall in Sales. colinhenshall@chessict.co.uk. Financial Benefits From money off your tea to buying a new car, we'll help save you money here. Salary Sacrifice Lease a car, mobile, tablet, bike and many more options through our salary sacrifice scheme, you'll save money and pay monthly. Log onto Chess4u to find out more. Childcare Vouchers Tax efficient help for your little ones' care, you can exchange part of your gross salary for childcare vouchers, which are tax and National Insurance free. You could make savings of up to 933 per parent, per year. It's free to sign-up and it doesn't matter what you earn. 4 Culture Financial Development Health Recognition Wellbeing 5

4 Helping You Grow When you grow, we grow and there's nothing we like more than seeing our people succeed. That's why it's so important for us at Chess to have a benefits package that helps you to develop. Training Chess provide great in-house, role specific training as well as funding industry and professional qualifications. If you're a leader you'll have the chance to participate in our Leadership Academy. Everyone at Chess is also enrolled in our Personal Performance Programme. Monthly s Every month you ll meet with your manager to review how things are going. You ll also get a personal growth plan to help you develop as a professional. Keeping You Healthy Having a healthy, happy, energetic, and safe place to work is part of our culture. We offer lots of benefits to look after our people s wellbeing. Medicash From your first day you can access the basic level of Medicash for 10 per month. After a year of service it s free. It gives you cash back on dental and optical costs as well as loads of other treatments like physio, consultant visits etc. Dental Plan Chess provide a stand-alone dental plan covering you for up to 1750 each year. Health Screening Every couple of years Chess organise an onsite health screening. For anyone opted into Medicash this covers the cost of the screening. Opticians Everyone at Chess is entitled to one free eye check up each year. We can also help get great discounts on glasses and lenses through Specsavers. Green Car Scheme The Chess Green Car scheme works very simply. You can choose to surrender a certain amount of your gross salary each month in return for the provision of a fully expensed lease eco-friendly car. This works in much the same way that a salary sacrifice scheme works for any other eligible benefit such as childcare vouchers, bike to work and computers. The scheme is accessed through the Chess4U website. Bike to Work Save money and the environment by taking part in Bike to Work. Loan bikes and safety equipment as a tax-free benefit. At the end of the loan period you can take ownership of the bike by making a fair market value payment. 6 Culture Financial Development Health Recognition Wellbeing 7

5 Playing Our Part It s part of our culture to play our part in the wider community by supporting charities and minimising our impact on the environment. A Great Place to Work We like to go the extra mile to make Chess a really great place to work, here are some of the little extras we like to do for you. Company Charities Chess support a wide range of charities. We do a lot of work with the Prince s Trust, and local hospices. We encourage our people to play their part and get stuck into raising money for these worthy causes. We ll also match any charitable fundraising to the value of 100 for our people. Breakfast Club Enjoy the most important meal of the day on us. We provide a healthy selection of cereals and breads free of charge. Flu Vaccination Keeping you well all winter, Chess provides free flu vaccinations to any employees who d like one. Massages We know you work hard so we like to help you relax. Our qualified masseuse visits us monthly. You ll be scheduled in automatically. 5-A-Day We stock up on free organic fruit in all our offices to keep us fit and healthy. It's delivered twice a week and yours for the taking. Feng Shui We're advocates of the ancient Chinese harmonizing system of Feng Shui. Our offices are decorated in relaxing colours to give us a motivating and pleasant environment with plenty of plants to keep the atmosphere clean and healthy. Quit Smoking We'll help you give up smoking for good. We'll pay for any quitting aids for the first 6 weeks of you giving up! 8 Culture Financial Development Health Recognition Wellbeing 9

6 Summer Conference & Christmas Party Twice a year we all come together to hear how we ve been performing as a business and what our plans are for the future then we celebrate, no one throws a party like Chess. MD s/ceo Lunch Join In the Fun There are loads of ways you can get involved in our social calendar. Join a club, dress up or dress down and have a blast at one of our many parties! If you're interested your local Cultural Architects (CA) are there to help. We'll even support you starting your own club! Wellbeing Club Arts Club Running Club Theme Days Meet regularly to help you live a healthy lifestyle. Get in shape with your local Chess managed running club. Badminton Club We're always looking for new talent, speak to your local CA s if you want to get involved. Pub Club A monthly night at a local pub. We provide drinks tokens for you to have a drink on us. A great way to socialise with your Chess family! Our leaders host regular lunches for you to get the opportunity to feedback and ask questions about the business as well as enjoying lunch on them. Team Ideas Lunch Every 3 months we'll pay 5/pp for you and your team to get together for lunch and a chat what better way to get those creative juices flowing! Chesstival Every year, we celebrate our own festival known as Chesstival, raising money for multiple charities. It s a really fun day that brings all of our families together. Recognition Each month you can vote for your employee of the month. If you work in sales, you're also awarded for excellent performance. Both are acknowledged during our all group monthly meeting 'The Stand Up'. We also give out various awards at the annual Christmas party. Win a Holiday If you do something great you ll be given a Gimme 5 chip. Your chip goes into our holiday draw at our twice yearly company get-together's. You can win fantastic holidays worth up to 4000! So far we've got clubs at our Alderley and Pailsey offices. Speak to your local CA s or start your own and get funding from Chess. In aid of one of our chosen charities, once a month, wear fancy dress or dress down. Eco Team Become one of our eco-warriors and be an advocate for saving the planet. Speak to a CA if you re interested in getting involved. Yoga Find your inner zen and join our Yoga club run by our very own Yogi's. 10 Culture Financial Development Health Recognition Wellbeing 11

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