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For businesses that have already made the move to employee ownership, the next question is often: how do we continue to reward and incentivise our employee owners?

An Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) can give employees a meaningful collective stake in the business. But as employee ownership develops, businesses may also start considering whether there is a role for direct share ownership – giving individual employees shares in their own right.

Our next webinar, “Share Schemes for Employee Owned Businesses: Is direct ownership right for us?”, will explore the opportunities and considerations for businesses thinking about taking this next step.

Is direct ownership right for us?

📅 Tuesday 10th November 2026
⏰ 10:00am – 11:30am
📍 Online (Microsoft Teams)

Baxendale Employee Ownership’s Legal Director, Ewan Hall, will talk through employee share schemes including Enterprise Management Incentives (EMI) and Share Incentive Plans (SIP), and how these can work alongside a business owned through an EOT.

The session will look beyond the mechanics of share schemes to consider the bigger question: is direct employee ownership right for your business?

Ewan will explore:

• Why an employee-owned business might consider direct share ownership
• How schemes such as EMI and SIP can be used to reward and incentivise employees
• The potential benefits of giving employees a personal stake in the business
• How direct share ownership can sit alongside an EOT
• The tensions and challenges that can arise between individual and collective ownership
• Questions around eligibility, differentiation, governance and culture
• What businesses should think about before introducing a share scheme

Whether you’re actively exploring EMI or SIP, considering direct share ownership for the first time, or simply wondering whether it could complement your existing EOT structure, this session will provide an opportunity to understand the options and the issues to consider.

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