2007 Winners

Awards were on offer to businesses in six categories, namely for Learning (the award sponsored this year by the Learning and Skills Council), Retention, Innovation and for Small (fewer than 100 employees), Medium (101 - 1,000 employees) and Large organisations (1,000+ employees).

Separate awards were also made to the Outstanding Business Individual and to the Outstanding Jobcentre Plus Individual of the year.

The winners presented with awards by Richard Farleigh of BBC TV's "Dragon's Den" were:

  • Small Business - Andy's Kars, Cambridge
  • Medium Sized Business - National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
  • Large Business - Civil Service - Royal Navy, Portsmouth, Hampshire
  • Outstanding Jobcentre Plus Individual - Julia Burden, Disability Employment Advisor, Bristol Central Jobcentre
  • Outstanding Business Individual - Hilary Gibson, administrative officer, Child Support Agency, Birkenhead
  • Innovation - Holiday Inn, Edinburgh
  • Retention - Aspire Housing, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire
  • Learning - Morgan Stanley, Glasgow
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