The Alliance Homes Group has received a gold award for the way it supports and motivates its team.

The community-based business provides housing and care services across North Somerset and picked up the award from Investors in People.

Louise Swain, chief executive of the Portishead-based group, said: “We are absolutely delighted to have retained the Gold Standard.

“It reflects our ambition of being a great place to work and investing in people is critical to this.

“To receive external validation we are getting a lot of things right is a great boost and helps us to ensure that we can be a place that people will want to come and work and develop their career.”