UK HR Awards in 2023
The Ultimate List of UK HR Awards in 2023
A tool for outstanding HR professionals who want to celebrate their successes through various HR Awards throughout 2023.
As the end of the year approaches, you may be reviewing 2022 and going through everything you have achieved throughout the year. As an employee, as a team, as an HR department. Are there any projects you are particularly proud of? Have you seen some amazing results you would like to share with your peers within the HR industry? Now is your time to shine!
At Let’s Talk Talent, we believe great work deserves to be celebrated. To that effect, here is a list of HR Awards being held in the UK, each of which applauds amazing initiatives, recognizes awesome employers, and promotes innovation.
We hope it entices you to submit your work, get recognised, and get inspired by your HR industry colleagues. Because, let’s be honest, life is too short for beige!
Jo Taylor
MD, Let’s Talk Talent
Jump to Awards by month
HR Awards in January 2023
The RAD Awards
Championing the very best in recruitment marketing and communications.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award Date: 26th January 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
Recruiter Investing in Talent Awards
Recognising recruitment agencies and recruiters.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award Date: 31st January 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers
A definitive list of UK based organisations that promote inclusion across all protected characteristics, throughout each level of employment within their organisation.
Deadline Date: 18th August 2023
Award Date: TBC, estimated January 2024
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
HR Awards in February 2023
WM Top Employer Awards
The Top Employer Awards, sponsored by NHS Professionals, celebrate the very best companies for diversity & inclusion, flexible working, career progression for women, mental health and family support.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award Date: 7th February 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
Business Awards UK – Recruitment
Celebrating recruitment and HR talent.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award Date: 21st February 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
HR Awards in March 2023
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Heroes Award 2023
Showing those making a difference just how important their work is, and giving them the recognition they deserve!
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award Date: 2nd March 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
AAC Apprenticeship Awards
A celebration of outstanding apprenticeship delivery in the UK.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award Date: 14th March 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
British HR Awards
The British HR Awards is a quest to discover and celebrate the individuals, teams and suppliers that are passionate about delivering a world-class people experience.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award Date: 15th March 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
ONREC Online Recruitment Awards
Celebrating the success, growth, innovation, talent and achievements within the Online Recruitment Industry.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award Date: 16th March 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
Great British Workplace Wellbeing Awards
These awards have been launched to recognise and champion the incredible steps taken by many employers, service providers and individuals in response to our global wellbeing crisis.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award Date: 16th March 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
British Diversity Awards
The BDAs promote the values of equality, diversity and inclusion by rewarding those individuals, organisations and unsung heroes who help to make the world and the workplace a better place for others.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award Date: 22nd March 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
TARGETjobs National Graduate Recruitment Awards
The largest early careers recruitment awards in the UK.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award Date: 23rd March 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
HR Awards in April 2023
DIVA Awards
A no-holds-barred celebration of the achievements of LGBTQI women and non-binary people – and their allies – across business, the media and politics.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: TBC, estimated April 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
Recruiter Awards
The UK’s largest event for the entire recruitment community recognising outstanding achievements by agencies and in-house recruiters. Achievements in recruitment marketing and technology also are spotlighted on the night.
Deadline date: TBC, estimated March 2023
Award date: TBC, estimated April 2023
The Safety & Health Excellence Awards
Celebrating excellence in safety and health.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 26th April 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
PPMA Excellence in People Management Awards
The PPMA awards give an opportunity to celebrate and share the fantastic work going on every day in Public Services organisations.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 27th April 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
HR Awards in May 2023
UK Company Culture Awards
To recognise and celebrate companies who share values, care and nurture their workforce, offer career development, reward good work and create a workplace environment that is beyond just an office space.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 4th May 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
UK Employee Experience Awards
The awards celebrate EX champions across the UK.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 11th May 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
Rainbow Awards
The Bank of London Rainbow Honours is one of the UK’s biggest LGBT+ awards events which celebrates the best British and international LGBTQI talent, as well as the allies and organisations who support them.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 17th May 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
The Sunday Times Best Places to Work Awards
A list that recognises the organisations with consistently high levels of positive employee experience in the UK today.
Deadline date: 31st March 2024
Award date: TBC, late Spring 2024
HR Awards in June 2023
The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality
The Times Top 50 Employers For Gender Equality 2023 is the UK’s most highly profiled and well-established listing of employers taking action to create workplaces where everyone, regardless of gender, can thrive.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: June 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
Working Families Best Practices Awards
Working Families’ annual Best Practice Awards recognise UK employers whose stand-out cultures and practices demonstrate that they deeply understand that all employees perform better when they have some degree of flexibility over when, where and how they work.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 20th June 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
This Can Happen Awards
To celebrate and recognise companies and individuals who have shown excellence in their approach towards positive mental wellbeing for their employees and colleagues.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: June 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
British LGBT Awards
Shining a spotlight on role models and organisations who work tirelessly to better the needs of LGBT+ people
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 23rd June 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
The Employee Benefits Awards
The Awards is the place to recognise individuals, teams and organisations who are making a difference through their reward and benefits strategies.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 23rd June 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
HR Awards in July 2023
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HR Awards in August 2023
Princess Royal Training Awards
For all UK employers who can show how investing in training has directly improved their people and organisational performance.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award Date: TBC, estimated Autumn 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
HR Awards in September 2023
CIPD People Management Awards
Features examples of excellent innovation, projects, and teams that showcase how the HR and People Development profession really is the force for change.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 21st September 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
HPMA Awards
The HPMA Excellence in People Awards recognises and celebrates the work of HR, OD and workforce professionals across the UK.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 19th September 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
Workplace Savings and Benefits (WBS) Awards
Aims to find and recognise the employers which have the best benefits teams and offerings to staff and have done the most to improve these over the past 12 months.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 7th September 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
The Recruiter Awards
The UK’s most prestigious honours in recruitment recognise best practice and celebrate the great work and achievements in-house, agency and RPO teams, and individuals.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 28th September 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
National Diversity Awards 2023
The concept for the National Diversity Awards arose when The Diversity Group identified an urgent need for more positive role models to be actively promoted, with the aim to empower and inspire the wide breadth of diverse communities across the UK.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 15th September 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
Institute of Internal Communications (IoIC) Awards
Recognising, rewarding and celebrating outstanding internal communication.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 22nd September 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
APSCo Awards for Excellence
Celebrates the very best in the professional recruitment sector.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 27th September 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
Learning Technologist of the Year Awards
Celebrate and reward excellent research and practice and outstanding achievement in Learning Technology.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 27th September 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
SGUK National Health and Safety Awards
The SGUK Awards are an opportunity to recognise, celebrate and communicate the success of Safety Groups, organisations and individuals.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: September 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
The Inclusive Awards
The only awards ceremony that rewards organisations for harnessing a truly diverse workforce.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: TBC, estimated September 2023
Menopause Friendly Employer Awards
Celebrates the wonderful organisations that are committed to being, or already accredited, as Menopause Friendly Employers.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 14th September 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
HR Awards in October 2023
The Ethnicity Awards
The ethnicity Awards celebrates Black, Asian, and Ethnic Minority people who work tirelessly to make a positive impact on diversity in the public eye, in politics, and in the workplace.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award date: TBC, estimated October 2023
Social Mobility Employer Index
The Social Mobility Employer Index is the leading authority on employer-led social mobility.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award date: TBC, estimated October 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
Recruitment Marketing Awards
The RMAs continue to provide reward and recognition for excellence and professionalism in recruitment marketing and talent management.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 26th October 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
UK Social Mobility Awards
Champion the advancement of social mobility by recognising and celebrating employers and educators working to improve it.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award date: 12th October 2023
Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB) Awards
The FAB Awards recognises the contributions made by awarding organisations and their employees to education and skills in the UK over the past year.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award date: TBC, estimated October 2023
HR Awards in November 2023
Festival of Learning Awards
Festival of Learning awards celebrate the best in adult learning and the wide-ranging benefits of learning on individuals, families, communities and employers.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award date: TBC, estimated November 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
Personnel Today Awards
The Personnel Today Awards celebrate the very best achievements and innovations in HR and L&D.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 21st November 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
The ABP Awards
The awards demonstrate the value that Business Psychology delivers to both individuals and organisations.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 8th November 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
The Global Recruiter UK Industry Awards
An event to highlight the strengths and achievements of the recruitment industry, and to recognise the companies and individuals who have demonstrated best practice, leading edge thinking and more over the last 12 months.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award date: 14th November 2023
Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards
The Multicultural Apprenticeship Awards recognises Multicultural British apprentices, their employers, and learning providers.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award date: TBC, estimated November 2023
National Apprenticeship Awards
Designed to recognise and reward the achievements of exceptional apprentices, apprenticeship champions and apprenticeship employers.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award date: TBC, estimated November 2023
In-house Recruitment Awards
Recognise the increasing achievements of UK In-house Recruitment Teams and the individuals that form them has come to an end.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: 29th November 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
British Recruitment Awards
Recognising individuals, teams and agencies who are passionate about helping organisations hire the right people.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award date: 8th November 2023
enei Annual Inclusivity Excellence Awards
Provides a platform for organisations to showcase and share their achievements in promoting and progressing workplace diversity, equality, inclusion, and belonging.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award date: November 2023
The ERSA Employability Awards
The industry awards are an opportunity to recognise staff and organisation’s achievements in the employment related services.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award date: 29th – 30th November 2023
HR Awards in December 2023
HR Excellence Awards
Open to UK-based organisations and HR professionals, the prestigious HR Excellence Awards shine a light on best practice and offer an unrivalled opportunity to celebrate the community’s greatest asset, its people.
Deadline date: Closed*
Award date: TBC, estimated December 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
Sword and Globe of Honour (British Safety Council)
Celebrates and rewards those organisations that have reached the pinnacle of health, safety and environmental management. Organisations from around the world who have achieved the top grade in their Five Star Audit are invited to apply.
Deadline Date: Closed*
Award date: TBC, estimated December 2023
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!
The GenM Awards
Celebrating brands, organisations, employers and employees using their influence to create real change for the menopause.
Deadline Date: Closed*
*Entries are now closed for this year, but make sure you add this one to your 2024 calendar!