AWE receives Silver Award for Diversity and Inclusion benchmarking

 In recognition of AWE’s improved Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) activity through benchmarking with the Employers Network for Equality and Inclusion (enei), AWE is proud to announce that this year it’s reached the Silver Award Standard.

The Talent, Inclusion and Diversity Evaluation (TIDE) is an annual self-evaluation against best practice across all Diversity and Inclusion categories, and this year we increased our score to 70% – our business objective was to achieve the Sector Standard of 54% or above. This is the third year AWE has undertaken TIDE benchmarking.

AWE has been a member of enei since early 2018. Having access to enei’s resources and following best practice has helped AWE demonstrate that it’s creating an inclusive environment for today and for tomorrow.

Megan Hunt, Director HR, explains the benefits: “With challenging times ahead, we need to be the employer of choice in both the industry and locality. Being recognised as an inclusive employer is attractive for those with the skills we need now and in the future. Diversity and inclusion is ever changing, and we will seek to continuously improve.”

The benchmarking process highlighted that AWE has made progress in the following areas:

• Recruitment and attraction
• Communication and engagement
• Procurement

Commenting on the success, Sarah Bakewell, Diversity & Inclusion Manager, said: “This is a great achievement by all those who are involved in our D&I activity across the business. Their passion and innovations are demonstrably making a real impact and I can proudly say that we’re ahead of many other organisations in the defence sector.”