Stonewall release list of top 100 LGBT-friendly employers

Stonewall has released its annual list of the UK’s top 100 LGBT-friendly employers.

The guide ranks the best employers and places to work for lesbian, gay and bisexual staff. The charity uses its Workplace Equality Index – which uses evidence-based responses to a demanding list of criteria compiled from submissions from hundreds of employers across the UK – to measure workplace inclusivity and create the list.

Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust, Tower Hamlets Homes and Lloyds Banking Group were ranked first, second and third respectively on this year’s list. The highest-ranked creative company and only small busniess to features in the top 20 was creative industries skills body Creative Skillset.

Gary Townsend Vila, the company’s Executive Director said: “We’re very proud to make the top 20 in Stonewall’s list of employers. This is testament to the hard work that everyone at Creative Skillset has done to take diversity and equality to the very heart of our organisation.

“We advise and support the UK’s creative industries on training to support diversity and open up opportunity and we really do live this sprit in our own workplace as well.

Check out the list in its entirety below:

1 Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
2 Tower Hamlets Homes
3 Lloyds Banking Group
4 National Assembly for Wales
5 St Mungo’s Broadway
6 Baker & Mckenzie
7 MI5
8 Crown Office & Procurator Fiscal Service
9 = Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
9 = Pinsent Masons
11 University of the West of England
12 Brighton & Hove City Council
13 London Borough of Islington
14 Victim Support
15 = Aviva
15 = Office for National Statistics
17 = Creative Skillset
17 = Leicestershire County Council
19 = Newcastle City Council
19 = Northumberland County Council
19 = Touchstone
22 = BP
22 = Herbert Smith Freehills
24 Cardiff University
25 Environment Agency
26 The Co-operative
27 = HM Revenue & Customs
27 = Royal Bank of Scotland
29 West Yorkshire Community Rehabilitation Company
30 Barnardo’s
31 Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service
32 = Circle Housing Group
32 = Core Assets
34 = Microsoft
34 = St Andrew’s Healthcare
34 = Welsh Government
37 = Metropolitan
37 = Riverside
37 = Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service
40 = Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
40 = CMS Cameron McKenna
40 = Norfolk Constabulary
43 = South Tyneside Homes
43 = University of Manchester
43 = University of Sheffield
46 The Army
47 St George’s, University of London
48 = B3Living
48 = Hogan Lovells
50 Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
51 = American Express
51 = Essex Community Rehabilitation Company
51 = Leeds Beckett University
54 = Department of Health
54 = Genesis Housing Association
56 = Citi
56 = Moody’s
56 = Royal Navy
59 = Birmingham City Council
59 = Hertfordshire County Council
59 = Incommunities
62 = Bury Council
62 = London Ambulance Service NHS Trust
62 = Thomson Reuters
65 = Crown Prosecution Service
65 = Leicestershire Police
67 = Eversheds
67 = Southend-On-Sea Borough Council
69 L&Q
70 = Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
70 = NHS National Waiting Times Centre Board
72 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
73 = Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
73 = Suffolk Constabulary
75 = De Montfort University
75 = EDF Energy
75 = Norton Rose Fulbright
78 York St John University
79 = Berkshire Healthcare HNS Foundation Trust
79 = Derbyshire County Council
79 = The University of Birmingham
82 = Financial Conduct Authority
82 = National Audit Office
82 = PwC
85 = Affinity Sutton
85 = Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue
85 = Northumbria Police
88 = Joseph Rowntree Foundation
88 = K&L Gates
88 = Sheffield City Council
91 = Cheshire Constabulary
91 = Nottinghamshire Fire & Rescue Service
91 = Royal Air Force
94 = Care Quality Comission
94 = Carmarthenshire County Council
94 = HSBC Bank
94 = Nottinghamshire County Council
98 = Bristol City Council
98 = Somerset Council
98 = Suffolk County Council
98 = Your Homes Newcastle

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