Best Employers Eastern Region
2025 Awards
The 2025 Best Employers Eastern Region awards recognised organisations in the Eastern region that were rated especially highly by their own employees in areas of engagement, culture, development and wellbeing. The winners listed below were celebrated at the 2025 awards ceremony.
Best Employers Eastern Region has concluded
Best Employers Eastern Region was a long-running biennial survey-based initiative run by eras in partnership with Pure Resourcing Solutions. Following the 2025 programme, the initiative has now concluded.
These pages are retained as a historical record of the initiative's awards, accreditations and participating organisations.
The Culture & Engagement Survey that underpinned Best Employers Eastern Region remains available as a standalone eras product. Previous participants can continue to use the survey and, where applicable, compare future results against historic survey data.
Explore the Culture & Engagement SurveyBest Large Organisation www.arhc.org.uk
Arthur Rank Hospice Charity provides outstanding, holistic care for people in Cambridgeshire with a life-limiting illness and those who are end of life, and those important to them. We support people to live as well as they can for as long as they can and care at end of life.
Best Medium Organisation www.policybee.co.uk
PolicyBee is a digital, independent, small-business insurance broker. We like to do things differently. Like making professional insurance quick and easy to buy online. And speaking in plain English, not jargon. Plus, we have a friendly team of insurance-savvy experts ready to help if you need them.
Best Small Organisation www.jarroldtraining.co.uk
Jarrold Training is a leading Business Training & Development provider, working with private, public and voluntary sectors throughout East Anglia and the UK. Our single minded aim is to help businesses and their people achieve brilliant performance by increasing skill levels, confidence and motivation.
Best Hospitality & Retail paddyandscotts.shop
Paddy & Scott's coffee is created to inspire and fuel those bold enough to make a difference. Every cup acts as a catalyst for ambition, a force for good that challenges the status quo and fosters positive change for coffee farmers, communities, and the planet.
Best Professional Services stratagemipm.co.uk
Stratagem works with clients as a strategic IP partner, helping innovative businesses unlock the full value of their ideas. We support businesses to transform innovation into commercial advantage and guide founders, entrepreneurs and R&D leaders as they grow, scale and lead in their industries.
Best Not-for-Profit thalidomidetrust.org
We are a small registered charity dedicated to providing comprehensive support to a unique and remarkable community of people living with significant disabilities, as a result of their mothers taking the drug thalidomide during pregnancy. We are committed to enabling them to live their best life for the longest time.
Best Manufacturing & Engineering www.amarinth.com
Amarinth involved their employees in developing their values which help guide day-to-day decision making. There are clear career paths and an emphasis on personal development through individual training plans. Their ESG [environment, social and governance] strategy is impressive and includes elements like an electric car scheme and charging points - they even have beehives on site. Local charities and schools are part of the mix too as they offer work experience to three local high schools, as well as sponsoring the Woodbridge 10K.
Alex Pearce Award - Most Improved www.virginwines.co.uk
Since launching in 2000 we've sold over 100 million bottles to happy customers in the UK. By working hand in hand with talented winemakers across the globe, we're able to create and source quality wines you won't find anywhere else and deliver more of what you love drinking.
Continue Your Culture & Engagement Journey
The Culture & Engagement Survey that underpinned these awards is still available. Find out how your organisation can measure and improve employee engagement today.
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