We’re proud that our innovative efforts to achieve a truly inclusive and diverse environment, and to advance social equality, are being recognised externally through a series of achievements and award wins:
Recent awards
2026
Disability Confident Leader – awarded by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
MindForward Alliance - accredited 'Excelling' for Workplace Mental Health
Social Mobility Employer’s Index – top 5 since 2017
Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equity – for 15 consecutive years
UK Social Mobility Awards – Progression Programme of the year
2024
Stonewall Top 100 Employers – 22nd
Times Top 100 Graduate Employers – 11th
UK Social Mobility Awards – Organisation of the Year
Universum's Most Attractive Employer Ranking – 8th for Business Students and 9th for Professionals
2023
Black Talent Awards – winner of the Large Business Award
Business Disability Forum’s Disability Smart Awards – Inclusive Recruitment
Investing in Ethnicity awards – Outstanding Employer
My Plus Disability Progress Awards – Most Progressed Inclusive Recruitment Award
UK Social Mobility Awards – winner of Community Programme of the Year
Working with specialist diversity organisations
We also work with a number of specialist diversity organisations, many of whom recognise our work as a leading practice including,
- 30% Club Cross Company Mentoring scheme
- Access accountancy
- Business Disability Forum
- Business in the Community Gender and Race campaigns
- Careers UK/Employers for Careers
- City Mental Health Alliance
- Living Wage Foundation
- Neurodiversity in Business
- Social Mobility Foundation
- Stonewall
- Women of the future
- WorkLife Central
Working with these organisations helps us measure our progress in these areas and share best practice.
Demonstrating our support
We’re also signatories on a number of high-profile diversity-related charters that support public accountability in this area including,
- Armed Forces Covenant
- Black Talent Charter
- Change the Race Ratio
- Cornerstone Employers (Careers and Enterprise Company)
- FTSE Women Leaders Review
- HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter
- Menopause Workplace Pledge
- Race at Work Charter
- Tech Talent Charter
- UN Global Compact
- Valuable 500
- Vision for Literacy Business Pledge