This award recognises allies that are passionately committed to promoting inclusion, diversity and belonging for diverse ethnic groups, both within and outside the workplace. The individual should not identify as being from an ethnic minority background, and should have used their position to support and actively participate or initiate activities that progress this agenda, both in their own company and the wider world, with a focus on work carried out within the last 12 months.  Past Winners Include: Mat Moakes – OVO, Honey Kirtley – BNY Mellon, Paul Plewman – Macquarie

This award recognises a future leader who has shown great future potential within their career and field of work. The future leader will be between the beginning to middle of their career, and will be able to show that they are keen to role model leadership qualities. Additionally, the nominee will be able to demonstrate that they have contributed to furthering inclusion, diversity and belonging for diverse ethnic groups. This individual must be able to show evidence of raising the profile or pushing the boundaries of this agenda within the last 12 months. Nominees for this award should identify as being from any ethnic minority background. Past Winners Include: Olivia Grant – Reed Smith LLP, Cecilia Adjei-Sarpong - Essence Mediacom, Rachel Henry – Boots

This award recognises a person who works within a diversity, inclusion, people & talent or HR role. The winner of this award should be able to demonstrate that they regularly go above and beyond their day job to ensure that initiatives they implement are innovative and create lasting change within inclusion, diversity and belonging for diverse ethnic groups. Nominees should be able to provide examples within the last 12 months, and should identify as being from any ethnic minority background. Past Winners Include: Jacquline Alcindor - LGIM, Nicole Williams – Ashurst, Ade Rawcliffe – ITV

This award recognises a business leader (specifically someone in a Senior Management role), who has used their influence to effect positive change within inclusion, diversity and belonging for diverse ethnic groups. The nominee should be able to demonstrate they have been a positive role model and has had a strong influence within and outside of their workplace within the last 12 months. Nominees for this award should identify as being from any ethnic minority background. Past Winners Include: Geoffrey Williams – Burberry, Oli O'Donoghue – HSBC, Leon Donald – Tesco

This award recognises a diversity champion who has pushed the boundaries when it comes to ethnicity, inclusion within their company and beyond. The nominee can be at any stage of their career, and must have ethnic inclusion and wider diversity initiatives at the core of everything they do: they should be able to provide examples from within the last 12 months. Nominees for this award should identify as being from any diverse ethnic background.  (The nominee should not be working in a DEI role, please nominate in the Exceptional Inclusion category). Past Winners Include: Annmarie Holligan - BT Group, Seleeta Watson – Computacenter, Tolu Falade – BP

This award recognises where businesses have helped make an impact within ethnic minority communities in Britain. The campaign, purpose-led initiative, corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative or pro bono work doesn’t have to be solely based on ethnic minority communities, however it must demonstrate that it has helped improve the lives of people from ethnic minority backgrounds, and has created and embedded sustainable change in an area which is needed. The initiative can be a partnership with another purpose-led organisation or solely led by the business, and can be ongoing or stand alone, however the impact must be demonstrated within the past 12 months. Past Winners Include: HSBC UK supports Merky Books and Creative Access, Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers

This award recognises a network group that can demonstrate that they are active, innovative, and supportive of their diverse ethnic staff. The group must demonstrate that they have gone above and beyond in helping to positively impact inclusion, diversity and belonging for diverse ethnic groups over the last 12 months. Judges will be measuring the value of the network group’s initiatives and engagement relative to their maturity and network size.  Past Winners Include: Black Employee Network – Amazon, BT Ethnic Diversity Network – BT Group, Race Together – Nationwide Building Society

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