Egertons Recovery Group Limited
Source: gov.uk (2025-11-10)

We, the undersigned, commit to honour the Armed Forces Covenant and support the Armed Forces Community. We recognise the value Serving Personnel, both Regular and Reservists, Veterans and military families contribute to our business and our country.

The Armed Forces Covenant

An enduring covenant between the people of the United Kingdom, Her Majesty’s Government and all those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces of the Crown and their families

The first duty of Government is the defence of the realm. Our Armed Forces fulfil that responsibility on behalf of the Government, sacrificing some civilian freedoms, facing danger and, sometimes, suffering serious injury or death as a result of their duty. Families also play a vital role in supporting the operational effectiveness of our Armed Forces. In return, the whole nation has a moral obligation to the members of the Naval Service, the Army and the Royal Air Force, together with their families. They deserve our respect and support, and fair treatment.

Those who serve in the Armed Forces, whether Regular or Reserve, those who have served in the past, and their families, should face no disadvantage compared to other citizens in the provision of public and commercial services. Special consideration is appropriate in some cases, especially for those who have given most such as the injured and the bereaved.

This obligation involves the whole of society: it includes voluntary and charitable bodies, private organisations, and the actions of individuals in supporting the Armed Forces. Recognising those who have performed military duty unites the country and demonstrates the value of their contribution. This has no greater expression than in upholding this Covenant.

Section 1: Principles of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant

1.1 We Egertons Recovery Group Limited will endeavour in our business dealings to uphold the key principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, which are:
- no member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared to any other citizen;
- and in some circumstances that special treatment may be appropriate especially for the injured or bereaved.
Section 2: Demonstrating our commitment

2.1 Egertons Recovery Group Limited recognises the value serving personnel, reservists, veterans and military families bring to our business. We will seek to uphold the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, by pledging to the following:
- Armed Forces Friendly
- UK Service Veterans And Leavers
- UK Service Spouses And Partners
- Flexible Leave For Spouses
- UK Reservists
- UK Cadets
- Armed Forces Day
- Reserve Forces Day
- Armed Forces Charities
We also pledge the following:

Commitment to Veterans: We offer careers to service personnel in transition through current military professional placement initiatives. Currently we have many veterans and reserves employed at Egertons Recovery Group, our recruitment and selection processes actively encourage veterans, reserves and their families to join the group. We offer opportunities across all job roles, from apprenticeships, operational, technical roles, specialist roles, which includes senior management roles. We recognise military skills and qualifications during selection and at the interview stages, we will always consider any applicant and offer an initial interview. Egertons Recovery Group actively promotes a diverse approach to both recruitment, training and career progression. Many of our veterans and reserves that join us as part of our roadside teams have achieved specialist skills, as we offer the opportunity to expand their expertise, undertaking specialist recovery and rescue training courses. Our pledge is to support the employment of veterans, recognising military skills and qualifications in our recruitment and selection process; working with the Career Transition Partnership (CTP) to support the employment of Service leavers. We encourage veterans to spend the day with us prior to employment, on joining specialist recovery and rescue training is provided, buddy colleagues, mentors are on hand for additional support. Our employee engagement group, Heros @ Egertons conducts various engagement activities for our veterans and Reserves to share experiences and maintain the teamwork culture that veterans and reserves are renowned for. Commitment to Service Spouses & Partners: Egertons Recovery Group supports the employment of Service spouses and partners; collaborating with Forces Families Job. Providing flexibility in granting leave for Service spouses and partners before, during and after a partners deployment. We strive to support the employment of service personnel spouses or partners by adapting our HR policies to include the transfer and retention of spouses and flexible working patterns where appropriate. Our diverse landscape comes from many sources including race, age, gender, sexual orientation, culture, as well as professional and life experiences, which includes military services. We recognise the wealth of experience and talent that all Armed forces personnel, along with their families will bring to the company, which will only enrich and shape our future. Commitment to Reserves: Granting additional 10 days unpaid leave for annual Reserve Forces training. Supporting any mobilisations and deployment. Actively encouraging members of staff to become Reservists. We promote to members of our staff the benefits of joining the reservists community as we embrace the skills that reserves bring to our business. To support the wider Armed Forces community our Special Leave Policy grants, leave required for training and development outside of the role within Egertons Recovery Group. Commitment to Cadet Organisations: Supporting our employees who are volunteer leaders in cadet organisations, granting 10 days additional leave to attend annual training camps and courses. We offer support to local cadet units in our community or initiating support for local schools that already demonstrate their commitment, additionally actively encouraging members of staff to become volunteer leaders in cadet organisations. Supporting local military cadet units. Recognising the benefits of employing cadets/ex-cadets within the workforce. Commitment to National Events: Egertons Recovery Group wish to celebrate and recognise our Armed Forces achievements by supporting Armed Forces Day, Reserves Day, the Poppy Appeal and Remembrance activities. Our engagement group, Heros @ Egertons will promote all remembrance activities, organising workplace charity events. Armed Forces champions will be appointed to ensure that we promote our participation through our media and communication channels internally and externally. Commitment to commercial Support: Supporting Armed Forces charities with fundraising and supporting staff who volunteer to assist. We actively encourage our veteran community and supporters to volunteer to assist in charitable work, raise the importance of the Armed Forces role in society and celebrate their commitment. Acting as an external ambassador for the principles of the Armed Forces Covenant by promoting ourselves as a forces-friendly organisation in all our dealings with our network, our business partners and our customers. Incorporating the Armed Forces Covenant logo for both external and internal communications, including recruitment campaigns, social media posts, web presence, email footer branding and proudly displayed on our company stationery. We are an Armed Forces- friendly organisation, for our staff, customers, suppliers, contractors and the wider public. Extending our support, we host at least one industry insight day each year to promote the automotive and roadside service industry across the country.

2.2 We will publicise these commitments through our literature and/or on our website, setting out how we will seek to honour them and inviting feedback from the Service community and our customers on how we are doing.