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FREDIE Awards Winners 2021

The Winners from the 2021 FREDIE Awards

NCFD FREDIE AWARDS 2021 WINNERS

NCFD FREDIE Awards 2021 – celebrating the very best champions of Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement!

NCFD FREDIE Awards 2021 – celebrating the very best champions of Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement!

The NCFD Team would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who attended the event – once again the crowd and your energy and enthusiasm was phenomenal.

As we celebrated this year’s Award winners, we want to take the time to recognise and celebrate everyone who was nominated for one of our awards – this year we received a huge number of nominations and we look forward to seeing that number rise for 2021!

The fantastic organisations that achieve a place in our Top 100 Most Inclusive Workplaces Index, demonstrate excellent levels of FREDIE: Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement; and clearly demonstrate what brilliant employers they are.

We also want to thank everyone who has participated and been involved in making the event happen – our judging panel, speakers, award presenters, Stephen Morrison-Burke and Matt Fell our fantastic entertainers, photographer and the staff at We are Resource, we thank you for your support and your efforts to make the evening as brilliant as it was.

We would also like to say a special thanks to Dr Hanif Malik, who once again did a fantastic job as our Master of Ceremonies for the evening.

Congratulations again to everyone – your passion and commitment to Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement is unwavering and inspiring to us all – keep up the hard work and continue to be the trendsetters, rule book breakers and thought leaders that you are.

Enjoy the highlights
Watch some of the highlights from the 2021 FREDIE Awards Ceremony.
2021 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.
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Most Inspiring Individual of the Year
Karen Wallace, ScotRail
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Resources/Procurement Manager of the Year
Michael Sedgwick, EKFB
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School or Academy of the Year
Wellington School, Timperley
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Student Union of the Year
University of Hertfordshire Students' Union
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Housing Provider of the Year
Trust Housing Association
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NCFD Practitioner of the Year
Siraz Natha
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Board Member/ Director of the Year
Duncan Elliot, Galliford Try - Highways
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Board or Senior Leadership Team of the Year
Keller Limited
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Diversity Steering Group of the Year
Leeds Building Society
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FREDIE Lead of the Year
Zoe Shackleton, Huddersfield Town Association Football Club
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Employee of the Year
Megan Veronesi, Firstport
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HR Director/ Manager of the Year
Zoe Shackleton, Huddersfield Town Association Football Club
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Organisation of the Year
VINCI Construction UK
The NCFD Top 100 Index 2021
Congratulations to the Top 100 Most Inclusive Companies for 2021.
#1
VINCI Construction UK
#2
Cardiff and Vale College
#3
Huddersfield New College
#4
Red Rose Sports Club
#5
Victim Support
#6
Myerscough College
#7
West Midlands Combined Authority
#8
VolkerWessels UK
#9
City Health Care Partnership
#10
Recovery Focus Group

#11 – Yorkshire Building Society Group

#12 – Trust Housing Association

#13 – Foundation Personnel

#14 – Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games

#15 – Leeds City College

#16 – John Ruskin College

#17 – RNN Group

#18 – Bradford Cyrenians

#19 – Galliford-Try Highways

#20 – Firstport

#21 – Longhurst Group

#22 – Truro and Penwith College

#23 – Horton Housing

#24 – Wellington School Timperley

#25 – The Sheffield College

#26 – MSV Housing

#27 – St. Bede’s Educational Trust – Summer School

#28 – Met Office

#29 – Inclusion Housing

#30 – Squared

#31 – New Collaborative Learning Trust

#32 – Leeds Building Society

#33 – Ongo

#34 – Austhorpe Primary School

#35 – EKFB

#36 – Bradford College

#37 – The Grammar School at Leeds

#38 – Carlton Junior Infant and School

#39 – Association of Colleges

#40 – Bauer Technologies

#41 – Eurovia

#42 – MidKent College

#43 – Venesky-Brown Recruitment

#44 – ExcelRedstone Converged Solutions

#45 – HCP Social Infrastructure

#46 – Oasis Academy Warndon

#47 – C&K Careers

#48 – Eastleigh College

#49 – Oasis Academy Foundry

#50 – Halesowen College

#51 – Depaul UK

#52 – Kier Highways Ltd

#53 – Acero Construction

#54 – Beyond Housing

#55 – Bumblebee Conservation Trust

#56 – Oasis Academy Hobmoor

#57 – The NOCN Group

#58 – Target Housing

#59 – Barnet and Southgate College

#60 – Avenues Group

#61 – University of Hertfordshire Students’ Union

#62 – Link Group

#63 – Port of Leith Housing Association

#64 – The Sixth Form College, Solihull

#65 – Transport for Greater Manchester

#66 – Anglia Care Trust

#67 – Amery Construction

#68 – Oasis Academy Watermead

#69 – South Lanarkshire College

#70 – Royal Trinity Hospice

#71 – Central Training Group

#72 – Havens Hospices

#73 – Handsworth Primary School

#74 – Medical Family Finance

#75 – London Skills & Development Network

#76 – Leyton Sixth Form College

#77 – Barker Ross Recruitment

#78 – Bath Spa Students’ Union

#79 – Healthwatch Salford

#80 – Leeds Mind

#81 – Align JV

#82 – Durham Students’ Union

#83 – Morley College

#84 – Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College

#85 – Keller

#86 – The Waste and Resources Action Programme

#87 – Sheffield Media and Exhibition Centre

#88 – Grwp Llandrillo Menai

#89 – United Colleges Group

#90 – Caring for Communities and People

#91 – PTS Ltd

#92 – Serco Northlink Ferries

#93 – Law Society of Scotland

#94 – HMP Werrington

#95 – Incommunities

#96 – Newham College of FE

#97 – Icknield High School

#98 – Zeno Limited

#99 – Migrant Help UK

#100 – Sport England

2021 FREDIE Awards Gallery
Enjoy a selection of images from the 2021 FREDIE Award Ceremony.