Firstport Earns Spot in 2025’s Top 100 Most Inclusive Workplaces
We are excited to once again be recognised alongside other champions of inclusive cultures and best practice in Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, and Engagement (FREDIE).
This year, Firstport was ranked 90th in the National Centre for Diversity (NCFD) Top 100 Most Inclusive Workplaces Index 2025. The NCFD advocates for FREDIE principles and formally recognise organisations that demonstrate excellence in inclusive and equitable workplaces.
We are committed to making inclusion the core of Firstport, and over the past few years we’ve taken deliberate steps to put diversity and inclusion at the forefront of our work. These steps include launching a new Diversity & Inclusion framework, embedding diversity requirements into board governance, running a diversity-led board recruitment process, completing training on unintentional discrimination, and introducing an inclusive learning management system for LaunchMe participants.
Co-chairs of Firstport’s Diversity and Inclusion working group Jacky Tjivikua and Renae Bell shared their thoughts on the news:
“We’re thrilled to have ranked once again in the Top 100 Inclusive UK Employers.
The re-accreditation process gave us valuable recommendations to strengthen our practices, and we’re actively working through these. We’ve evaluated our EqualiTeach training, begun our inclusive recruitment review, and we’re currently developing our FREDIE workshop to embed better practices across the organisation.
This accreditation gives us a clear benchmark for improvement and keeps us accountable to meaningful, sustained progress.”
Solat Chaudhry, Chief Executive at the National Centre for Diversity added:
“I send my warmest congratulations to FirstPort on successfully reaching number 90 in the Top 100 Most Inclusive UK Employers Index 2025.
The inspiring organisations that make the Top 100, demonstrate excellent levels of employee retention and recruitment and clearly demonstrate how they value and respect the people that work for them.
What better than to be recognised by peers and those travelling in the same direction towards the common goal of Fairness in the workplace. It is hugely motivational.”