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Finalists Announced for the Working Families Best Practice Awards 2025  

Published: 14 May 2025

The UK’s national charity for working parents and carers, Working Families, has revealed the shortlist for its 2025 Best Practice Awards. The awards celebrate employers whose stand-out cultures and working practices are leading the way in flexible and employee-friendly workplaces.   

Now in their sixteenth year, Working Families’ Best Practice Awards showcase and celebrate employers who are offering flexibility for all their people and going above and beyond in their support for parents and carers.   

The winners will be announced at an awards event at Apothecaries’ Hall on 26 June 2025. 

Employers from a diverse range of sectors from across the UK have competed to catch the judges’ attention in nine categories. The shortlisted organisations are:  

Best for Mothers – sponsored by Umbrella HR 

  • Pan Macmillan 
  • Royal Air Force  
  • Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield 

Best for Fathers  

  • Canada Life  
  • Pan Macmillan  
  • Royal Air Force 

Best for Carers & Eldercare  

  • Crown Prosecution Service  
  • Places for People  
  • Utility Warehouse   

Best Family Network – Sponsored by BlckBx   

  • BNP Paribas  
  • Experian  
  • Nationwide Building Society 

Best for All-Round Flexibility  

  • Hill Dickinson LLP  
  • Ten2Two Limited  
  • Yoto 

Best Small Employer  

  • ACEVO  
  • Niice  
  • Ten2Two Limited 

Best for Mental Health & Wellbeing  

  • Better Society Capital  
  • E.ON UK  
  • Nationwide Building Society  

Best for Supporting Different Pathways to Parenthood  

  • E.ON UK  
  • Principality Building Society  
  • The Salvation Army 

 Family-Friendly Champion of the Year – Sponsored by Arnold Clark 

  • Achsah Nasser, Bank of England  
  • Aileen McNiven, ILF Scotland  
  • Louise Haffenden, URW   

Jane van Zyl, Chief Executive of Working Families said:  

What a fantastic year for the Working Families Best Practice Awards – a huge congratulations to our finalists, each and every one has truly earned their spot. Once again, we have been able to select from outstanding organisations who are showing the world what is possible when employers are willing to go against the grain and lead by example. Their drive to create a more equitable, inclusive society that works for everyone is clear.  

Flexible and family-friendly working still has some way to go before we can say that we all get a fair deal. These finalists are beacons of possibility and demonstrate that a determination to find flexible solutions and a belief in putting people at the heart of organisations brings benefits for businesses, for employees and for families.