Fantastic place to work - Head of Partnerships Ditch The Label Employee Review

Wonderful support mentor team. The role itself was meaningful and rewarding.

My experience working for Ditch the Label have been deeply upsetting and disappointing. Over several years, I was repeatedly encouraged to believe I would be fairly considered for development opportunities and leadership roles, only for opportunities to be withdrawn, reassigned, or filled without a transparent interview process. This created a culture where hard work and loyalty did not feel genuinely recognised. Communication from leadership often felt unclear, particularly around progression, staffing decisions and pay. Towards the end I was carrying responsibilities beyond my role without appropriate recognition or compensation - my whole department had to take a 20% paycut despite being on the lowest paygrade; and juggling four different roles towards the end. And then all but one of us were made redundant due to "lack of funding". Less then ten days following our departure, you promote a colleague and also announce a new 40K role... Disgusting. My final experience with the organisation was especially upsetting. After three years in the role, my goodbye messages to community members were heavily edited and monitored during my final shift, which made an already emotional departure feel impersonal and lacking in trust. I left feeling undervalued despite years of commitment to the organisation and its members.

What Ditch the Label does for young people matters deeply to me. It is wonderful to see that young people's voices are listened to and heard first. I am also surrounded by kind and supportive colleagues, and this makes it a real pleasure to be part of this team.

I cannot think of any cons at the moment