Pros
As a longstanding employee of SARI, I honestly say it has been an exciting, dynamic and inspirational charity to work for. SARI achieves a huge amount with a small team of passionate changemakers. SARI genuinely understands the communities it serves and embraces a diverse team in terms of age, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, disability and life experience. They are constantly striving to be better and to make more of an impact by preventing and tackling hate and inequality. SARI provides so many opportunities for staff and volunteers to gain skills in a wide variety of arenas including casework, training, education, working with children and young people, community development, strategic and policy development and much more besides.
Cons
SARI is trying to fundraise so it can increase its capacity and its salaries for its staff - especially those providing frontline services. This is not easy in a world where funding is increasingly scare for the voluntary sector - especially for those who are not seen as statutory duty. As SARI is small, progression opportunities are more limited but SARI is trying very hard to find ways around this so their staff can progress in the organisation in terms of skills and remuneration.