CGIUKI Awards 2025

The shortlist

The Chartered Governance Institute congratulate all of those shortlisted in the CGIUKI Awards 2025.

We look forward to celebrating everyone and announcing the winners at the awards ceremony on 4 November, and the stylish Royal Lancaster London.

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NOMINATED CATEGORIES

Champion for Governance Sponsored by Diligent
•    Loretto Leavy, Co-founder, Board Behavioural Dynamics
•    Charlotte Little, Head of Governance, Vine Schools Trust
•    Samuel Ngeow ACG, Manager, Governance and Corporate Services, Elemental CoSec
•    Perry R Perrott, Data and Privacy Governance Specialist, Carnival UK (Cunard and P&O)
•    Wendy Stanger FCG, Director of Governance, East Coast College
•    James Walker ACG, Head of Governance, Clarion Housing Group
•    Bernadette Young FCG, Co-Founder and Director, Indigo Governance

Diversity and Inclusion Project of the Year Sponsored by Kuberno
•    Asian Corporate Governance Network: Championing ESEA Voices in UK Boardrooms
•    Flex Legal: Flex CoSec - The UK’s first social mobility governance graduate scheme
•    Impactful Governance: C.I.C: Expanding the reach and creating new opportunities
•    Law Debenture: Diversity and Inclusion Initiative
•    Sport England: Sport England and UK Sport Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan (DIAP) Project

ESG Project of the Year
•    Cambridge Building Society: Rent to Home Scheme
•    Kiira Motors Corporation: The E-Bus Xpress Venture - A Sustainable Public Transport Revolution
•    Law Debenture
•    Mourant Governance Services: Together for Good - Mourant and City Harvest’s ESG Partnership

Governance Professional of the Year
•    Helen Child, Head of Governance, Gambling Commission
•    Chelsea Chivers, Head of UK Entity Management, Law Debenture
•    Nick Lindsay, Managing Director, Elemental CoSec
•    Paul McCullagh, Group Director of Corporate Governance and Company Secretary, Monzo Bank
•    Reena Mulliah-Moonoosamy, Group Chief Services Officer & Chief Officer – Insurance, NIC Group
•    Alice Parker, Deputy Chief Corporate Governance Officer, Aviva plc
•    Carolyn Pollard, Group Company Secretary, Rightmove plc
•    Phoebe Stamford-Moroz, Deputy Company Secretary, Rentokil

 

Governance Project of the Year Sponsored by Sherpany
•    Aviva plc: Retirement of Aviva plc’s and General Accident plc’s preference share capital
•    Board Behavioural Dynamics Handbook
•    British Land: Governance Automation Project
•    Howden Group Holdings Limited: Group Structure Visualisation Initiative
•    Indigo Independent Governance Ltd: Raising the bar in football governance
•    The Football Association: The FA's Code of Governance for County FAs
•    The London Clinic: Project Toucan – Transforming Governance through Strategic Partnership

Service Provider of the Year
•    Beyond Governance
•    Bridgehouse
•    Browne Jacobson LLP
•    DWF Law LLP
•    Elemental CoSec
•    Indigo Independent Governance Ltd
•    Oakwood Corporate Services
•    Virteffic

Team of the Year Sponsored by Computershare
•    Admiral Group plc
•    Aviva plc
•    Barclays PLC
•    Janus Henderson Investors
•    Lloyds Banking Group
•    London South Bank University
•    Monzo Bank
•    Santander UK plc
•    Solventum Corporation

The One to Watch Sponsored by Vistra
•    Renata Almeida, Company Secretary, Alter Domus
•    Alaana Alphonso, Governance Advisor, Beyond Governance
•    •    Brownie Ebal, Principal Legal Officer, National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC)
•    Louis Exley ACG, Manager - Governance and Corporate Services, Elemental CoSec
•    Tilly Harvey, Assistant Company Secretary, Rentokil Initial plc
•    William Harwood ACG, Assistant Company Secretary, Keller Group plc
•    Tim Page ACG, Corporate Governance Manager, Aviva plc
•    Chloe Wallace, Senior Consultant, Law Debenture

REPORTING CATEGORIES

Annual Report of the Year – FTSE 100 Sponsored by Atticus
•    Bunzl plc
•    easyjet plc
•    Pearson plc
•    Severn Trent plc
•    Tesco plc
•    United Utilities Group PLC

Annual Report of the Year – FTSE 250
•    Balfour Beatty plc 
•    Drax Group plc 
•    Travis Perkins plc 
•    Trustpilot Group plc 
•    Workspace Group plc

Annual Report of the Year – Other 
•    CT Automotive Group plc
•    Digital Health and Care Wales
•    OCU Group Ltd
•    Stewardship
•    The London Clinic
•    Zopa Bank Ltd

Audit Disclosure of the Year
•    Bunzl plc
•    Derwent London plc
•    easyJet plc
•    Tesco plc
•    United Utilities Group PLC
•    Workspace Group plc

Board Disclosure of the Year
•    Balfour Beatty plc 
•    Smith + Nephew plc 
•    J Sainsbury plc
•    SSE plc
•    Persimmon plc 

 

Board Performance Review Disclosure of the Year
•    Balfour Beatty plc 
•    Persimmon plc 
•    Reckitt Benckiser Group plc 
•    Trustpilot Group plc 

Remuneration Report of the Year
•    Barclays PLC
•    Compass Group plc
•    GSK plc
•    Pearson plc
•    Severn Trent plc

Stakeholder Disclosure of the Year
•    Drax Group plc 
•    Ocado Group plc
•    Rathbones Group plc 
•    Senior plc 
•    Severn Trent plc

Sustainability Disclosure of the Year Sponsored by Toppan Merrill
•    Bunzl plc
•    DCC plc 
•    easyJet plc
•    Severn Trent plc
•    Travis Perkins plc
•    United Utilities Group PLC