Our People (New)
Bells of Lazonby
Our People
Bells has always known that our most important asset is not the machinery, products or even the beautiful location, but that it is our people that make our business what it is.
We do whatever we can to make working here enjoyable and fulfilling for everyone.
Our people are the main reason why our company delivers day in, day out and we want everyone to feel valued and have the skills they need to meet their personal development goals so that they are supported and proud to be part of the Bells family.
Learning and Development
We are committed to recruiting local talent and seeing them flourish through both on-the-job and classroom training. Many of the management team today began as young apprentices and this is the legacy, we want to continue for many more generations to come.
Apprenticeship schemes
We offer Level 2 and Level 3 Baking Apprentices to our young people working on the Bakery lines to help them to progress their skills, personal development and importantly to climb the career ladder.
We also have Engineering Apprentices including a L3 Diploma in Engineering, who work alongside our experienced team in-house engineers.
Core values
Our Culture
We guide our business by three core values in which we encourage all our employees to live by:
Family: To maintain our ethos of supporting each other as one team and nurturing talent to produce baked goods that we would be proud to serve to our own families and friends.
Innovation: To spot the latest trends in our industry before they happen and encourage open creativity within all of our team.
Quality: We pride ourselves on working with the best suppliers for our ingredients and have achieved the highest BRC accreditation grade of AA. We are RSPO Accredited, Vegan Society approved, and Coeliac society approved.
Equality of opportunity
Working at Bells
Everyone is welcome in our business, and we are committed to achieving a working environment which provides equality of opportunity and freedom from unlawful discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, pregnancy and maternity, marital status, gender, disability, religion or beliefs, age or sexual orientation.
Our Equality and Diversity Policy aims to remove unfair and discriminatory practices within the Company and to encourage full contribution from its diverse community.
Our culture is open and honest, we are each empowered to look for solutions and bring ideas.
We are innovative and spot the latest trends in our industry before they happen ensuring continually develop creative and delicious products that are baked with passion.
We work together to make a difference, and constantly challenge ourselves and others to find smarter ways of working.
We are committed to our communities; we are socially and environmentally conscious – and we support our employee’s wellbeing with our people first approach.
We have always put the importance of our people and our place at the forefront of what we do. We are nothing without our people and we take pride in being an employer of choice who looks after its people. We are incredibly proud of our place, with the family having lived in Lazonby ever since the business was founded in 1946. We continuously invest in our place, either through local community projects or wider environmental projects, including adding solar panels to our roof in 2022, saving over 100 tonnes of carbon emissions every year.
We are an accredited Disability Confident Committed employer. We provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process; we accept all job applications in a variety of formats and should you need any documents in a different format or require any further support or assistance please contact the HR Team by email hr@bellsoflazonby.co.uk.
We are recruiting for a variety of roles across our business, and we welcome applications from a diverse range of backgrounds and abilities.
If you bring your talent and ambition to Bells of Lazonby we will give you the opportunity to invest in your own future, to build your expertise and contribute to both our and your future.
