THE HIPEUP PROGRAMME
A year of building the environment where your people actually thrive.
An assessment that shows you the truth, not a training day people forget by Friday. Our team designs a workshop built around your team, and offers twelve months of support that ensure the changes remain long-term commitments.
HOW IT WORKS
Three stages. Twelve months. One environment.
We build it with you. And we hold you to it.
Your team scores themselves across three key areas: Seen, Safe and Valued. This creates the honest picture including the bits nobody usually says out loud.
Step 1.
Ssv assessment
A minimum of four hours, in person, built around your results and your people. Our workshop is always bespoke to you never an off the shelf product.
Step 2.
the workshop
We’re here for the long term with monthly team sessions, ongoing SSV data analysis at the end of months 1, 3, 6 and 12, and 24/7 access to the hipeup community.
Step 3.
long term help
Four hours your team will actually want to talk about afterwards.
Built from your assessment results, so it starts where your team actually is, not where a pre-set agenda assumes they are. In person, because connection doesn't rebuild over video. And designed to give people permission to be honest, often for the first time.
What being Bronze Award accredited actually gets you.
Not just another certificate for the wall. We generate proof for your people, your candidates and your clients, that you did the work.
A public
listing
Your organisation appears in the hipeup Directory, open only to accredited organisations at Bronze and above.
The hipeup mark
Use the badge on your site, job adverts and tenders. Proof your workplace is genuinely built around people.
Evidence, not vibes
SSV data reviews at at the end of months 1, 3, 6 and 12 gives you something tangible to show your progress.
One price.
Everything included.
BRONZE AWARD PROGRAMME
£3,500
+ VAT · Per team · Per year · Up to 20 people
(Worth £6,475+)
Manager Huddle Kit
✓ Week One Action Plan - immediate momentum
✓ Manager Circle - private peer community for leaders in the programme
✓ Weekly Manager Hipe - leadership prompts direct to the manager every week
✓ 12 monthly manager meeting guides - done for you, ready to run
✓ Monthly Manager Momentum Call - live with Polly, troubleshooting and accountability
Team Talks
✓ Monthly Hipe Hub Live - 12 live sessions for programme members only
✓ 24/7 Hipe Hub access - community portal, resources and peer support
✓ 52 weekly Hipe videos - direct to every team member every week
The Experience
✓ Pre-workshop SSV Assessment - whole team baseline
✓ Four-hour in-person workshop - no slides, no screens, just humans
The Measurement
✓ Five SSV data reviews across 12 months
✓ Hipeup Culture Audit Report
The Tools
✓ New Starter Onboarding Guide
✓ Hiring Toolkit
The Recognition
✓ Bronze Award - physical award, digital badge and directory listing
✓ Case study feature - website, newsletter and social media
The Impact
✓ Funds one complete Community Youth Session for 20 young people
START HERE
Bronze
The Beginning.
You've made a public commitment to your people. The Bronze Award recognises organisations that have entered the 12 month programme and started the journey.
Awarded for commitment.
SILVER
The Proof.
Twelve months in. Your people's own words, independently measured, confirm the culture you said you were building is the one they're actually experiencing.
Awarded for 12 months+
60%+ SSV · HCS 0+
Gold
The Standard.
Two years of sustained human connection. Not a project. The way this organisation works.
Awarded for 24 months+
70%+ SSV · HCS 30+
Platinum
The Exceptional.
Three years or more. The highest standard of human connection in the workplace. Rare. Significant. Earned.
Awarded for 36 months+
88%+ SSV · HCS 60+
Most of what people ask is answered here. But every team is different, if you have more questions click below to book a no-obligation call.
Before you book.
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I hear this a lot. And honestly - I get it.
Most surveys ask the questions, produce a report and then disappear. Nothing changes because nothing was ever designed to change. Hipeup isn't a survey.
The SSV assessment is the starting point - not the product.
What comes after it is a twelve month programme of weekly touchpoints, monthly support and live community that holds the change in place long after the workshop day. The data tells us where you are. The programme moves you forward. That's the difference.
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A training day creates a peak moment and then sends people back to exactly the same environment. Within weeks (sometimes days) everything reverts.
Hipeup is built around the thing most programmes get wrong - what happens after.
The workshop opens the door. The twelve months of weekly Hipes, monthly support, manager captaincy and live community holds the change in place.
We don't just visit your team. We stay.
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Less than you'd think. The workshop is one four hour session (and most teams tell us it's the best four hours they've spent together in years!)
After that - a five minute SSV check in at four additional points across the year. The weekly Hipe videos land in their inbox and take sixty seconds to watch. The monthly Hipe Hub Live is optional but most people show up because they want to. We've designed this specifically so it doesn't become another job for you or your team.
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Through the SSV assessment - Seen, Safe and Valued - completed by your whole team at five points across the year.
Before the workshop. At day thirty. At day ninety. At six months. And at twelve months. Each checkpoint gives you a clear picture of what's changed and where.
You also receive a Human Connection Score (think of it like an NPS score. This is a measurement tool used by some of the most successful companies in the world to understand how people really feel!) We've applied the same principle to human connection. It gives you a score between minus 100 and plus 100 and tracks the overall health of connection in your team over time. You'll always know exactly where you stand.
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The Bronze Award Programme is designed for teams of up to twenty people. If you're smaller - it still works, the investment just goes further per person.
If you're larger - we'll talk about a departmental or bespoke package that fits your organisation.
We've never turned anyone away because of team size.
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Yes. And for larger organisations this is often the smartest way in. The Bronze Award applies at team or department level - so your first department earns recognition independently. As more teams join the programme the recognition builds across the organisation. It's a natural way to grow without committing the whole business at once.
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Honestly - the teams that seem least likely to engage are often the ones that surprise you most.
The workshop is designed to meet people where they actually are - not where you wish they were and not where they think they should be.
We don't ask people to perform positivity or pretend everything is fine. We ask them to be a little more honest than they normally would be in a room full of colleagues. Most people find that easier than they expected. And the weekly touchpoints are sixty seconds, not homework.
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Not at all! We've worked across early years, corporate, sport, community and everything in between. The methodology adapts to the context - the opening question, the case study, the language. But the framework is the same because the humans are the same.
People everywhere want to feel seen, safe and valued. That doesn't change by sector.
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You don't have to do anything. But here's what I believe - and what Hipeup is designed for.
The teams that reach month twelve won't want to stop. Not because they feel obligated but because something has genuinely shifted. The programme is built so that by month twelve human connection isn't a project anymore - it's just the way this place works.
If you want to continue toward Silver, Gold or Platinum then we're with you every step of the way. If you want to pause and consolidate - that's fine too.
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Then we keep going - together.
The Bronze Award is yours for committing to the journey. Silver is earned through achievement - and if the data isn't there at twelve months it just means there's more work to do. We'll tell you exactly what needs to shift and support you in shifting it. Nobody gets abandoned because the numbers aren't where we hoped.
That's not how we work.
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Hipeup is an independent organisation - completely separate from every organisation in the programme.
Your staff submit their responses directly to us - not through your management. Individual responses are never shared with your leadership team.
Award decisions are made by fixed, objective data thresholds - not by human judgement and not by us deciding we like you. If the data hits the threshold the award is given. If it doesn't - it isn't.
No exceptions.
That's not self-certification.
That's an independent standard.
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Some things shift immediately - the morning after our founding session the team came in with a completely different energy. Other things take longer - genuine culture change doesn't happen overnight and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something. What you'll notice first is the conversation changing. People talking differently. Small moments of connection that weren't there before. The data starts to move by day thirty. By month three - most teams feel like a different place to work.
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This is probably the most important thing I can tell you about Hipeup - it is not a destination. There is no finish line you cross and then go back to how things were.
The whole point is that human connection becomes the way your organisation works - permanently, naturally, without anyone having to think about it.
The Bronze Award isn't the end. It's the beginning. Silver, Gold and Platinum exist because genuine culture change deepens over years - not months. The organisations that will carry this the furthest are the ones that stop asking when will we be done and start asking how do we keep getting better.
Hipeup is a journey. We're designed to walk it with you for as long as you'll have us.
Every Bronze Award Programme directly funds a hipeup Community Youth Session.
Improve your workplace, and you help a young person feel seen, safe and valued too.
Let’s have a conversATION
Thirty minutes, no pitch, and no obligation. We'll talk about where your team is now and whether hipeup is the right fit. If it isn't, we'll say so.