Inclusive Employment Award

This category encouraged applicants to demonstrate the business benefits and advantages that social mobility offers, such as fostering innovation, better decision making and utilising hidden talents from the local community.

For private sector businesses having a social impact, outside of their core business activities, in Greater London.

To qualify your initiative should do one or more of the following:

• Address social issues in Greater London communities through employability and skills development initiatives for disadvantaged, underrepresented or minority groups.
• Reduce barriers to employment or progression for disadvantaged or underrepresented or minority groups within your business.

Please read the eligibility criteria on the apply page applicable to all categories.

• Supporting different groups within your workforce who may be more adversely affected, with flexible working and health and wellbeing initiatives.
• Creating a virtual work experience programme aimed at younger people from disadvantaged or BAME backgrounds.
• Collecting socio-economic background data on existing employees
• Achieving good response rates to employee data collection surveys (confirm % if possible)
• Action plan or targets in place to make improvements, with a particular focus on progression, overseen by accountable leadership

Please follow this link to see videos of previous organisations who have won in this category.

This Award has evolved from the ‘Enterprise and Employment Award’.

We have archived the Inclusive Employment Award – Guidance Notes.

We have archived the General Guidance Notes applicable to all categories.

Businesses were encouraged to nominate third-party businesses for the Inclusive Employment Award.

The nominee must have been informed before the application is submitted.