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:
Firm Awards
- 2023 – Ranked #1 in the Top 10 Outstanding employer in the Investing in Ethnicity Matrix
- 2023 – Social Mobility Employer’s Index (4th). The only organisation to be in the top 5 every year since the award launch in 2017.
- 2023 – The Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equity for the 13th consecutive year
- 2023 – Awarded Disability Confident Leader status for a further 3 years from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
- 2023 – Stonewall Top 100 Employers (8th)
- 2023 – Disability Forum’s Disability Smart Awards– Inclusive Recruitment Programme of the Year
- 2023 – My Plus Disability Progress Awards - Most Progressed Inclusive Recruitment Award
- 2023 – Ranked #9 in Universum's Most Attractive Employer Ranking for Business Students in the UK
- 2023 – won the Large Business Award at Black Talent Awards
- 2023 – won Community Programme of the Year at UK Social Mobility Awards
- 2022 – City Mental Health Alliance Thriving at Work Assessment – Achieving Accreditation Award
- 2022 – The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers (8th)
- 2022 – Number 10 in LinkedIn Top Companies UK
- 2021 – Business Disability Forum’s Disability Smart Awards – Workplace Experience Award and Covid-19 Innovation Award
- 2021 – National Undergraduate Employability Awards Top 100 Undergraduate Employers
- 2021 – Gold Employer Recognition Scheme Award by the Ministry of Defence
- 2021 – British LGBT Awards - Listed in Top 10 inclusive employers
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. 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