A Cotswold-based investment company specialising in human capital, has been listed as one of the top 10 best small companies to work for in the UK.

Hunter Gatherer Group, which has offices Chipping Campden and London, ranked fourth in the best small companies league table for 2022, which is compiled by workplace engagement specialist Best Companies and is based on employee surveys.

It has also achieved a 3 Star accreditation, awarded to organisations of all sizes that meet 'world class' levels of workplace engagement.

Gavin Johnstone, founder and CEO of Hunter Gatherer Group said: "In a world facing economic, political, and social uncertainty, the workplace must provide security, well-being and opportunity for all its people. When we started our first company, our aim and aspiration was for our people to have a sense of pride in the business and know that it provided the very best opportunity for careers to flourish. This accreditation reaffirms that aspiration and is testament to our ongoing growth and success."

Made up of four businesses, Hunter Gatherer owns and invests in human capital companies. Over the course of the last year, the group said it had "continued its track record" of building companies at scale, targeting investing in the renewable energy and technology sector.

Benton Robertson, MD of Hunter Gatherer AHP/MH Resourcing, a Hunter Gatherer Group company added: "We launched Hunter Gatherer AHP and Hunter Gatherer Mental Health with the objective of being the best company in our chosen sector, based on a simple ethos of finding ambitious colleagues with positive attitudes, supporting them with progression, coaching and best in class technology. With a motivational culture and a progressive career pathway we strive to retain all our wonderful employees.

"The collective hard work and enthusiasm of all at Hunter Gatherer Group has created a special environment and its fantastic to be recognised as one of the top 10 companies to work for in the UK."