2022 Shortlist

Press Release

Time to shine a light on inclusion as 2023 Inclusive Awards open for entries

The 2023 Inclusive Awards – organised by Inclusive Companies – are open for entries. Returning for the 9th year, the Awards comprise eight categories that recognise and celebrate individuals and organisations who have excelled in their commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. Set to shine a light on inclusion, the Inclusive Awards entries are assessed by a truly diverse and ind... »

Merkle Diversity & Inclusion Council

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Diversity Teams Award Merkle has always been home to passionate individuals, advocating for change across a diverse range of social issues. Over the past few years, Merkle has mobilised its employees via a fully fledged diversity council that has created a real sense of community at the organisation. Since 2017, Merkle has worked tirelessly to transform the way in which em... »

RISE @ Coop

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Diversity Teams Award In 2018, Co-op decided to rethink its approach to diversity and inclusion. Over the past few years they’ve created a movement of over 200 passionate inclusion pioneers and colleague networks – people who help to advocate, share and embed the work they are doing at a local level. Co-op’s diversity team RISE is a network of colleague volunteers fr... »

Metropolitan Police – HR Diversity & Inclusion Team

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Diversity Teams Award Metropolitan Police’s HR D&I Team have introduced a number of great diversity and inclusion initiatives contributing to the wider ambition of creating an inclusive workforce for both officers and staff. These great initiatives have supported staff and officers in the workplace, and have also supported recruitment and retention initiatives by contr... »

Severn Trent

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Social Mobility Project Award Severn Trent was named as one of the country’s top-performing companies for improving social mobility. The company carried out a review and redesign of their early career’s recruitment processes, looking at the performance of recent recruits to understand how they were performing against the company’s values. As a result, they removed two of t... »

University of Sunderland ‘We Care’

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Social Mobility Project Award The University of Sunderland is renowned for its supportive and nurturing approach to students, ensuring that everyone regardless of their background has the opportunity to reach their full potential within higher education. In 2016, a unique support framework was introduced for those who were care-experienced or estranged from their parents/c... »

Pathways to Law consortium partners

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Social Mobility Project Award The Pathways to Law consortium of corporate partners collectively fund and support the delivery of The Sutton Trust’s longest running careers programme. The aim of the programme is to open up access to the competitive legal sector for talented, disadvantaged young people and to allow them to explore what a career in the legal profession might ... »

KPMG Future Leaders Programme for Girls

2022 Shortlisted Nominee D&I Tech Initiative Award The future Leaders programme was designed to articulate, implement and embed the step change required by KPMG in attracting, recruiting, promoting and retaining women in Technology. The programme has been instrumental in improving the retention of KPMG’s talented women in technology by providing a series of targeted inventions including mentor... »

Code First Girls

2022 Shortlisted Nominee D&I Tech Initiative Award Code First Girls is a social impact business on a mission to eliminate the gender diversity gap and transform tech globally through free education and employment for underrepresented groups.  The company has helped more than 70,000 women learn to code, boosting employability, diversity, and social mobility to transform local economies and comm... »

Atos – We Are Allies Programme

2022 Shortlisted Nominee Inclusive Culture Initiative Award In 2020 as part of the launch of Atos’s 2020-21 Diversity & Inclusion strategy they launched their Diversity Allies programme. The aim of the programme is to provide visible diversity and inclusion allies throughout the business with support and advise on how to create a more inclusive workplace. The programme requires allies to take ... »