By transforming health and justice to build confidence and attract investment, an East Yorkshire family business has helped British interests overseas for 25 years.
It delivers investigation training in British Overseas Territories as well as tackling corruption and financial crime in Bosnia Herzegovina.
As well as supporting healthcare providers and commissioners in the UK, the company also delivers health projects abroad. In particular, it supported primary care organizations during the Covid-19 pandemic and led the way in tackling addiction.
The Managing Director of Agencia, Helen Gibson said:
“Overseas investment is crucial to the UK economy and to our standing in the world, and we support that by working quietly in the background to create and develop environments which are seen as safe and secure.
“That means providing our justice expertise to help governments identify and get to grips with such threats as terrorism, corruption, war crimes and modern slavery. It also means applying our experience of global healthcare issues to protect the population.
“Our work helps nations and communities develop resilience and sustainability, and that in turn can provide a bulwark against disruptive and even hostile interventions. It’s remarkable to think we’ve now been doing this for 25 years.”
Helen Gibson’s father Andrew Gibson founded Agencia in 1997 to improve health and justice for people. Andrew passed away in 2018, leaving Helen as Managing Director. Joy Allen, who joined the company as Head of HR and Corporate Services in 2017, works closely with Helen.
As a result of Agencia’s achievements in 2017, the company was named Best Small Family Business in the UK in the prestigious National Family Business Awards. With exports accounting for more than half of the business’s turnover over the last 20 years, the company was named a Northern Powerhouse Export Champion in 2019.
During the 2022 New Year Honours, Helen was awarded the MBE.
She said:
“From humble beginnings we have progressed to become recognised as an international success story – an important local employer in East Yorkshire with teams of experts working across the globe.
“We have grown from a small operation into an internationally recognised business which has worked in more than 20 countries and delivered a huge array of more than 500 diverse contracts, earning high praise from satisfied clients.
“Most importantly we are making a real difference to people the world over and we have remained true to my father’s vision a quarter of a century ago. We are dealing in two of life’s most precious commodities – health and justice – and our plan for the next 25 years is to continue transforming lives and communities and making a genuine difference, both locally and internationally.”
Agencia celebrated its 25-year anniversary with key stakeholders and shared its success story on social media and in an e-book.
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