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FREDIE Award Archive – 2017

The Winners from the 2017 FREDIE Awards

NCFD FREDIE AWARDS 2017 WINNERS

NCFD FREDIE Awards 2017 – celebrating the very best champions of Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement!

There were tears of joy and expressions of elation. People were jumping to their feet, hugging and embracing each other. People were punching the air. What a night!

In celebrating this year’s NCFD Grand Award winners, let us not forget the all this year’s nominees, the shortlisted ones – the ones that were close to winning but were just pipped to the post, in the race to be recognised as the best.

The talent pool was just phenomenal again this year, so to have been nominated or shortlisted is an honour in itself!

In my short address on the night I asked people to bank the moment when they were announced as winners. Those moments don’t come around very often, and when they do they live with us for ever. Most people remember the seconds leading up to winning the award; they remember the news of winning, and then thereafter it all goes blurry for a minute as the adrenaline kicks in.

So, my advice again – bank the moment. Don’t let any of it escape and hold on to it as you never know if and when that moment will happen again.

Congratulations to everyone – you are all winners.

from Solat Chaudhry, CEO, National Centre for Diversity.

Enjoy the highlights
Watch some of the highlights from the 2017 FREDIE Awards Ceremony.
2017 FREDIE Awards Winners
Congratulations to all the winners and all the hard work they have put into their EDI efforts throughout the year, and congratulations to all the runners-up as well.
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK’s Most Inspiring Individual of the Year 2017
Suzanne Doyle, University of Bristol Students’ Union
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK’s Most Innovative EDI Initiative of the Year 2017
Happy to Translate Team, Trust Enterprises Ltd
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK’s Steering Group of the Year 2017
The Equality & Diversity Steering Group, Release Potential
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK’s Most Improved Organisation of the Year 2017
Release Potential
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK’s Resources/ Procurement Manager of the Year 2017
John Hull from Carillion Group.
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK College Principal of the Year 2017
Angela Williams from Huddersfield New College
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
Investors in Diversity Advisor of the Year 2017
Jo Barton
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK Employee of the Year 2017
Tracy Andrews from John Ruskin College
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK EDI Lead of the Year 2017
Erika Montgomery from Huddersfield New College
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
Special Achievement Award 2017
Nicola Hosty from Yorkshire Building Society
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK School or Academy of the Year 2017
Oasis Academy Foundry
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK Charity of the Year 2017
Victim Support
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK Student Union of the Year 2017
University of Bath Spa Students` Union
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK Housing Provider of the Year 2017
Yorkshire Coast Homes
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK Engineering Company of the Year 2017
NG Bailey
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK Transportation Organisation of the Year 2017
Arriva Rail North
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK Construction Company of the Year 2017
Interserve Construction
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK Small to Medium Business of the Year 2017
NEWTEC
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK Large Business of the Year 2017
Prospects Services
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK Chief Executive of the Year 2017
Pat Edwards from Newham Training and Education Centre
2017 FREDIE Award Place Holder
UK Organisation of Year 2017
Huddersfield New College
The NCFD Top 100 Index 2017
Congratulations to the Top 100 Most Inclusive Companies for 2017.
#1
Huddersfield New College
#2
New College Durham
#3
South Lanarkshire College
#4
Newham Training and Education Centre
#5
Treloar Trust
#6
The Henley College
#7
Yorkshire Coast Homes Ltd
#8
Hadlow College
#9
Victim Support
#10
Steps to Work

11. Cestria Community Housing Association
12. Barnsley College
13. Halesowen College
14. Bright Horizons Family Solutions
15. New College Pontefract
16. ONGO
17. Truro and Penwith College
18. North Star Housing Group
19. Boston Mayflower Ltd
20. Communication Specialist College Doncaster
21. Trust Housing Association
22. Luton Community Housing
23. Bury College
24. Newham College of Further Education
25. Red Rose Sports Club
26. Oasis Academy Foundry
27. Longley Park Sixth Form College
28. Bath Spa Students’ Union
29. Heart of Worcestershire College
30. Aylesbury College
31. Milton Keynes College
32. Learning & Skills Gateshead
33. Interserve Construction
34. Brent Housing
35. Axiom Housing Association
36. Cardiff and Vale College
37. Woburn Lower School
38. Viewpoint Housing Association Ltd
39. Franklin College
40. Cruden Group
41. Carillion Fleet Management
42. Barnet and Southgate College
43. Pinchmill Lower School
44. Horton Housing
45. HMP Feltham
46. Equal Approach
47. Prospects Services
48. West Kent College & Ashford College
49. Link Group
50. South Cheshire College
51. The Sixth Form College Solihull
52. Release Potential
53. City Healthcare Partnership
54. Calderdale College
55. Oakwood Primary School

56. Linkage Community Trust
57. Guildford College
58. Carillion Strategic Highways
59. Swallowfield Lower School
60. Shears Hairdressing Academy
61. Orchard Hill College
62. One Vision Housing Ltd
63. Babcock Training Ltd
64. The RNN Group
65. Swanswell
66. Anglia Care Trust
67. Northumberland College
68. HCT Group – Learning Centre
69. Pobl Group
70. Central Training Group
71. NG Bailey
72. Women Centre
73. Bournemouth University Students` Union
74. University of Bristol Students’ Union
75. Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College
76. Dimensions
77. C&C
78. John Ruskin College
79. Biddenham International School
80. MHS Homes
81. Richmond Fellowship
82. Trident Housing Association
83. VINCI Construction UK
84. BARCA Leeds
85. Wellington School
86. The GEO Group UK Ltd
87. Bradford Cyrenians
88. T2 Group
89. Mid Kent College
90. Seacroft Grange Primary
91. Arriva Rail North
92. Financial Ombudsman Service
93. Reading University Students’ Union
94. Inclusion Housing
95. Community Action Dacorum
96. Catsurveys Group
97. PTS Ltd
98. Hanover Scotland
99. Ansbury
100. Leeds College of Art

2017 FREDIE Awards Gallery
Enjoy a selection of images from the 2017 FREDIE Award Ceremony.