Best apprenticeship scheme
Bright Horizons
Equiniti
London Ambulance Service
Facing critical workforce shortages and limited career entry points, London Ambulance Service developed an apprenticeship scheme designed to both remove barriers to paramedic careers and ensure its workforce was more representative of the community it serves. With only 5 per cent of paramedics from ethnically diverse communities and th...
National Grid x Corndel
Sheffield City Council
Welsh Government
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Best change management initiative
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
Lloyds Banking Group
NHS Property Services
OneAdvanced
What struck the PMAs judges about software solutions provider OneAdvanced’s “bold, transformational” change management initiative was its “strong emphasis on human connection, with a focus on people at the heart of the process”, something the organisation kept front and centre when it introduced a new business strategy following a seri...
Openreach - Fibre Build
solutions by stc
Virgin Money
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Best CSR/ESG initiative
Bank of Ireland
Cera
Howard de Walden Estates
Trust Alliance Group
As a group of businesses that exists to “build and maintain trust between consumers and businesses”, Trust Alliance Group’s (TAG) corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative stemmed from a “deep commitment to aligning our core business values with tangible social impact”. If it was going to talk the talk, TAG recognised, it had to...
Westcoast
Best digital/technology initiative in HR/L&D
Applaud
Equiniti
Fuller, Smith & Turner and Attensi
Lloyds Banking Group
Hailed as a “standout example of people-first digital innovation in HR” by the PMAs judges, Lloyds Banking Group’s (LBG) development of generative AI-powered digital HR platform Prosper was motivated by the need to better serve its customers by significantly enhancing the employee experience at scale. Employee feedback had revealed tha...
SoftServe
Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority
Best employee experience initiative
Busy Bees Nurseries
To fulfil its mission to give every child the best possible start in life, Busy Bees – the largest childcare provider in the UK with more than 350 nurseries and 10,000 employees in the UK and Ireland – knew it needed to attract and retain the best people, and that to do so it would have to deliver the best employee experience in the ea...
Cove UK
Leek Building Society
LV=
Office for National Statistics
SPD Development Company
UK Health Security Agency
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Best equality, diversity and inclusion initiative (EDI)
Domestic & General
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Manchester Metropolitan University
Office for National Statistics
When employee feedback, diversity audits and industry benchmarks highlighted significant gaps in the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) representation and inclusion – particularly for ethnic minority staff, who were shown to have disproportionate employee outcomes – it responded by developing an Interactive Experience Initiative (II...
Welsh Government
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Best health and wellbeing initiative - private sector
AtkinsRéalis
Cera
FleishmanHIllard
Havas
In 2016, global communications and advertising group Havas launched Havas Equalise, a health and wellbeing programme built around four key pillars: mental health, financial wellbeing, physical health and social connection. Nearly a decade on, the programme is well established but, rather than resting on their laurels, the way the organ...
SUEZ recycling and recovery UK
The First Mile
Best health and wellbeing initiative - public/third sector
Living Potential Consulting
Quality of Life Center - Dubai Police H.Q
For the PMA judges, Dubai Police HQ’s Quality of Life Centre was the “clear winner” of the best health and wellbeing initiative in the public/third sector, with the word ‘comprehensive’ consistently used by the panel. “This presentation left the panel speechless,” they said. The Quality of Life Centre, the first dedicated wellbeing ent...
Social Security Scotland
Best HR/ L&D & OD team of the year - private sector
Anglo American
Bright Horizons
In response to sector-wide staffing challenges, the HR, L&D and OD teams at Horizon – a provider of early years education and care – launched a bold, data-driven strategy to attract, develop and retain talent that wowed the PMAs judges for its “impressive focus on people and investing in their futures”. In 2024, the people team designe...
Golf Saudi
Havas
Savola Foods Company
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Best HR/ L&D & OD team of the year - public/ third sector
Metropolitan Police Service
National Wealth Fund
NHS Property Services
For the PMA judges, NHS Property Services (NHSPS), which introduced a “revolutionary new philosophy and a comprehensive model”, the colleague relations (CR) team, “truly exemplifies the power of HR in driving cultural and organisational change”. “This shift was reflected across management practices, policies and the entire organisation...
Quality of Life Center - Dubai Police H.Q
Welsh Government
Best HR/L&D & OD consultancy
Dearden HR
Parent and Professional
Sonia Mooney Signature Solutions
When the Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust (RUH) turned to HR transformation consultancy Sonia Mooney Signature Solutions (SMSS) with a significant recruitment challenge, SMSS stepped up with a strategy the PMA judges believe has “the potential to be life changing for patients, and could lead the way for other trusts”.Th...
SYLO Beyond HR
Wintle-Camp Coaching
Best HR/L&D & OD supplier
Development Beyond Learning
Go Slow to Go Fast
Omni RMS
Stepping Up Leadership Community Interest Company
Wintle-Camp Coaching
Trant Engineering is a family-owned infrastructure business with a proud legacy and strong technical reputation. But as the business evolved, the senior leadership team recognised the need to modernise its leadership culture and create greater consistency in how people were managed, developed and led. While many managers were technical...
Best L&D initiative – private sector
Ampa
Anglo American
In 2023 and facing decreasing commodity prices and rising operational costs, global mining company Anglo American was falling behind production targets. Its general managers reported that gaps in the skills of site-based supervisors were contributing to the biggest capability priority. So in early 2024 the learning team conducted a nee...
Charles Russell Speechlys
Cove UK
DCC Technology
Immediate
Serco
stc group
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Best L&D initiative – public/third sector
Metropolitan Police Service
In 2023, faced with significant issues with leadership including inadequate management, a lack of oversight on the needs and skills of the organisation and a culture in need of reform, the Metropolitan Police Service produced a plan: ‘A New Met for London.’Focused on policing culture, transparency and community engagement, A New Met fo...
Mohammed Bin Rashid Housing Est
NIHR and Cappfinity
Tourism Development Fund
Welsh Government
Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority
Best organisational development or design initiative
Anglo American
Barchester Healthcare
Citizens Advice LeicesterShire
Golf Saudi
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
In 2021, the London Ambulance Service NHS Trust reached an urgent inflection point: it had the second-lowest staff survey results in the ambulance sector, high colleague turnover (12 per cent) and elevated sickness levels (8 per cent). Morale was at a critical low, with more than 42 per cent of staff considering leaving the organisatio...
The Salvation Army
Best people analytics initiative
Aramco
Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
In a time of public sector financial pressure and the need to ensure its workforce was as productive as possible, the workforce directorate at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust set out a vision to better equip leaders to lead their teams and ultimately deliver better patient care. It was clear from the outset that data was goin...
Lloyds Banking Group
stc group
whg
Best resourcing initiative
AWE Nuclear Security Technologies
Bright Horizons
NWH Group
To address workforce shortages, family-owned waste management business NWH Group implemented a strategic resourcing initiative aimed at improving retention, developing talent and ensuring long-term industry sustainability – an initiative that impressed the PMAs judges for “exemplifying grit, determination and bold thinking”.Beyond fact...
Savola Foods Company
United Nations Development Programme
University of Portsmouth
Best reward or recognition initiative
Bupa Arabia
National Deaf Children's Society
In 2023, the National Deaf Children’s Society embarked on an ambitious, multi-year transformation, driven by the ambition to become a truly responsive, innovative and high-performing organisation that delivers for deaf children and their families – and part of this was an impactful new reward and recognition initiative that impressed t...
NUPCO
Ports of Jersey
Savola Foods Company
University of Portsmouth
Best SME people management
Diversity Travel
Integrated Corporate Services
John Good Group
Leek Building Society
Staffordshire-based Leek Building Society appointed a new CEO who started in August 2024 with a newly formed executive team. It was a time of change, as other banks closed amid difficult economic challenges, and the organisation knew it was vital it brought its people along with it on the transformation journey. The resultant people st...
Xenia Property Group
Best talent management initiative
Canonical
Golf Saudi
Korea National Oil Coropration
Tourism Development Fund
TUSAŞ Engine Industries
With the defence and aerospace sectors experiencing unprecedented transformation – rapid technological evolution, increasing complexity, supply chain volatility and an ageing technical workforce – TUSAŞ Engine Industries (TEI) recognised the urgent need for a proactive, data-driven and strategic approach to workforce planning that alig...
Welsh Government
Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority
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Michael Kelly outstanding student award - Advanced
Alex Taylor, Crisis
Christopher Whiting, thebigword
Helen Aghanian, Bridgewater NHS Community Foundation Trust
The PMAs judges hailed Helen Aghanian’s Creating Kinder Cultures Workshop, delivered across the Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHFT), as “thoroughly designed and engaging”, describing Aghanian as an “articulate, professional and passionate presenter” whose “personal commitment to the initiative shone throughout...
Jan Kozak, Envista
Marta Sulkowska, Cera
Maryna Stiahailo, NextGenHR
Michael Kelly outstanding student award - Associate
Emily Snaith, Integrum Care Group
Hanieh Hosseinpour, Children With Voices
Jamie Bald, Torishima Europe
Working with Japanese engineering company Torishima, Jamie Bald was tasked with improving employee engagement on both a local and global level, all while completing his associate CIPD diploma. Managing to develop and launch a range of initiatives across the organisation that have since improved employee engagement, the PMAs judges were...
Mariam Rodrigues, Mitie Group
Nicole Edwards, Marks & Spencer
Ritwija Mandal, Angela Hamlin Health Care Professionals
Outstanding HR or L&D Apprentice Award - Level 7 & 5
Andrew Ratcliffe, Costa
Lorna Smith, Flair Rugs
Miranda Simms, TUI UK
Noticing a gap in travel company TUI UK’s values and employees' experiences, Miranda Simms launched a neurodiversity awareness initiative to bring the company’s ‘Come As You Are’ EDI approach to life, which, the PMAs judges said, “has enabled employees and their families to go on holiday while feeling supported in relation to neurodive...
Nicole Edwards, Marks & Spencer
Sophie Louise Habgood, Wedge Group Galvanizing
Zoe Lucas, Fred Olsen
Outstanding HR or L&D Apprentice Award - Level 3
Kevin Green, Müller UK & Ireland
Müller, a dairy company with more than 32,000 employees across Europe, was facing inefficiencies and high maintenance costs with outdated printers, so when new Markem CimJet 2200 printers were introduced it was critical that staff be trained to use them efficiently. Recognising the need, apprentice Kevin Green developed the The Cimjet ...
