Good place to work but very intense - Urban Designer Sustrans Employee Review

4.0
16 Oct 2025
Recommend
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Pros

good experience Very flexible Lots of projects and a great reputation

Cons

Busy workload Always a risk of redundancy They value engineers too much

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5.0
12 Dec 2025
Recommend
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Pros

The people are great there

Cons

Lots of restructures taking place

2.0
29 July 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Passionate, hardworking colleagues Good work-life balance

Cons

No leadership or budget for key workstreams that are supposedly central to the charity's mission. No communication or coordination between teams on these key issues, leading to chaos, inconsistent delivery, frustration, resentment and low morale. Hypocritical leadership - lots of waffle about living our values but no thought given to basics like providing the direction, tools and budget for staff to do their jobs properly. Requests to feedback on rebranding ideas, fundraise for the NCN's 30 year anniversary and join workshops to help put 'our refreshed values' into practice are hard to swallow when we have been waiting 4 months and counting for our payrise and the cackhanded, hugely overrunning restructure has dented everyone's morale.

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