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Most Improved Charter Signatory

Open to Charter Signatories only, the Award recognises and celebrates your achievements in improving gender balance.

We know that many organisations are on a journey to reaching their ambitions and may feel that they have little to show as yet, but by shouting about and celebrating our collective progress, we are increasing momentum towards our 30% by 2030 ambition.

We are delighted to launch the 2025 Most Improved Charter Signatory Award! 

What will the judges be looking for?

Our top tips are below but you can read the full criteria here.

The judges will be looking for examples of where an organisation has had an unusually positive influence or impact in progressing their gender diversity plans. This year, we have introduced a new review period, as we’re interested in your progress over the last four years in addition to your stats as at 31st March 2025.

We’re also asking three non-data questions (Section 6), designed to explore what your individual company / organisational challenges have been over the last four years, what solutions you’ve used to address those challenges, what impact the solutions had and how you’ve measured that impact. The three-year timescale recognises that some solutions take longer to have an impact than others.

If you are unable to provide data or challenges/solutions going back for three years, please share what is available and annotate accordingly.

The judges will look at both the data questions and Section 6 when reaching their conclusions.

Nominate here.

A look back at 2024

Dame Ruth Cairnie, Charter Industry Patron, talks about the Most Improved Charter Signatory at the Women in Defence UK Awards 2024

The Signatories

  • AACE
  • Accenture
  • ADS
  • Airbus
  • AirTanker
  • Allan Webb Ltd
  • Amentum
  • Aquila
  • Arcadis
  • Armed forces covenant
  • Arondite
  • Ascent Flight Training
  • Atkins
  • Atlas elektronic UK
  • AWE
  • Babcock
  • BAE Systems
  • BMT
  • Boeing UK
  • Boyden
  • British Army
  • BT
  • Capgemini
  • Capita
  • Cervus Defence Ltd
  • Chemring
  • Civil Service (not agencies)
  • Cohort PLC
  • Costain
  • Cranfield University
  • D Group
  • Dassult
  • DE&S
  • Defence Media
  • DSTL
  • Empyrea Consulting
  • Envitia
  • Eviden
  • FAUN Trackway Limited
  • Ferranti Tech
  • Forces Employment Charity
  • Frank Shaw Associates 
  • Frielle
  • Fujitsu
  • GE Vernova 
  • General Dynamics
  • Geometric Manufacturing Ltd
  • GKN Aerospace
  • Harquebus
  • Helsing Limited
  • Hydro Group
  • i3Works
  • Impellam
  • Improbable
  • JJ Churchill
  • KBR
  • L3 Harris
  • Leidos
  • Leonardo
  • Lockheed Martin UK
  • Lockett Solutions
  • Mace
  • Manpower Group
  • Marshall Aerospace and Defence
  • Matchtech
  • MBDA UK
  • Mott MacDonald
  • MRL Public Sector Consultants
  • Northrop Grumman
  • Occam Group
  • OBC RDSC
  • Orbis
  • Oxley Group
  • PA Consulting
  • Pearson Engineering
  • Plexal
  • Ploughshare Innovations Ltd
  • Prospect
  • PWC
  • QA
  • QinetiQ
  • Raytheon UK
  • RDUK Rheinmetall UK
  • Renaissance Strategic Advisors
  • Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land
  • RMMV UK Rheinmetall MAN Military Vechiles UK
  • Rowden Tech
  • Royal AirForce
  • Royal Navy
  • Rolls Royce
  • SAAB UK
  • Safran
  • Scan Associates 
  • Scientific Management International Ltd
  • Serco
  • Sharing Growth
  • Sirius Analysis
  • Skyral
  • Space Command
  • Squarcle
  • Stellar Solutions
  • Strategic Command
  • Submarine Delivery Agency
  • SYOS
  • Thales UK
  • TMD Technologies
  • Turner & Townsend
  • TWI
  • UKDSC
  • Ultra
  • Vivo
  • Vysiion
  • Walker Precision Engineering
  • Whitetree
  • WSP

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