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Finalists Announced for the Working Families Best Practice Awards 2024  

Published: 15 May 2024

We have revealed the shortlist for our 2024 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 fifteenth 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 2024. 

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  

bp  
Royal Air Force  
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield  

Best for Fathers – sponsored by Rolls-Royce 

Bank of England  
British Heart Foundation  
Fragomen LLP  
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield  

Best for Carers & Eldercare  

Forward Carers CIC 
Notting Hill Genesis 
Phoenix Group 
University of Strathclyde  

Best Family Network – Sponsored by BlckBx   

bp 
British Heart Foundation 
Microsoft UK 
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield  

Best for All Round Flexibility – Sponsored by The Employers Network for Equality & Inclusion (enei) 

Grant Thornton UK LLP 
Lloyds Banking Group 
Royal Academy of Engineering  

Best Small Employer  

Hand in Hand International 
Independent Living Fund Scotland 
Kanga Health Ltd  

Best for Mental Health & Wellbeing – Sponsored by Independent Living Fund Scotland 

Arnold Clark  
ClwydAlyn Housing 
Forward Carers CIC    

Best for Supporting Different Pathways to Parenthood – Sponsored by Adoption UK 

Bank of England 
BNP Paribas 
HSBC  

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

Anna Homewood at Aldermore Bank 
Natalie Quilter at Notting Hill Genesis 
Louise Haffenden at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield  

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.