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CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR WINNERS
The PPMA Excellence in People Management Award 2023 evening was full of glitz glamour and celebrations.
The evening of Thursday 27th April 2023 PPMA hosted their Awards at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole. The night celebrated the hard work carried out by our HR & OD colleagues throughout the year and the excellent services they deliver to their organisations and communities.
The full list of our winners and highly commended entries for each categories are listed below or you can download our winners brochure by clicking on the button below.
Awards evening highlights video
Best Creative Concept Recruitment Award – Sponsored by Crown Commercial Services
WINNER: Homes England with Penna
Highly Commended: Hertfordshire County Council with TMP and Lincolnshire County Council
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Best Candidate Experience – Sponsored by Jobsgopublic
WINNER: Buckinghamshire Council
Highly Commended:LABC with Opus People Solutions and Salford City Council
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Best Employer Brand – Sponsored by Penna
WINNER: Swindon Borough Council
Highly Commended: Home Office with TMP Worldwide
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Best Workforce Transformation / Change Initiative – Sponsored by Osborne Thomas
WINNER: Bath & North East Somerset Council
Highly Commended:Essex County Council and London Borough of Enfield
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Best Health & Wellbeing Initiative – Sponsored by Salary Finance
WINNER: oneSource – London Borough of Havering & London Borough of Newham
Highly Commended: Swindon Borough Council
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Best Employer & TU / Employee Partnership – Sponsored by The MJ
WINNER: Salford City Council
Highly Commended: Wigan Council
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Best Learning & Development Award – Sponsored by Commercial Services Group
WINNER: London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Council
Highly Commended: London Borough of Enfield
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Best Talent Programme – Sponsored by Hammond Clarke
WINNER: Northumberland County Council
Highly Commended: Norfolk County Council
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Best Inclusion & Diversity Programme / Initiative – Gatenby Sanderson
WINNER: Royal Borough of Kingston & London Borough of Sutton
Highly Commended: North Yorkshire County Council
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.Best Partnership / Collaboration – Sponsored by Tile Hill
WINNER: Commercial Services Group in partnership with Luton Borough Council (Connect2Luton)
Highly Commended: Joined Up Care Derbyshire Wellbeing Partnership and Westminster City Council & Multiverse
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Public Sector HR & OD Team of the Year – Sponsored by Tribepad
WINNER: Essex County Council
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HR Leader of the Year – Sponsored by Oracle
WINNER: Justine Brooksbank – Assistant Chief Executive (Business Support), North Yorkshire County Council
Highly Commended:Nichola Mann – Service Manager – People & OD, Brentwood Borough Council & Rochford District Council
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Service Superstar Team Award – Sponsored by McLean Public
WINNER: Human Resources– Operations Team, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
Highly Commended: HR Team, Tendring District Council
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Service Superstar Individual Award – Sponsored by McLean Public
WINNER:David Ratchford – Service Manager HR Operations, Salford City Council
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GOLD AWARD – Sponsored by Matrix
WINNER: Commercial Services Group in partnership with Luton Borough Council (Connect2Luton)
SILVER: London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham Council
BRONZE: Homes England with Penna
Click on each category below for a drop down detailing all those shortlisted in that category

Awards Evening Theme
Our theme this year was ‘A Night at the Movies’ and our chosen charities Dementia UK and LOROS.
Our sponsors and supporters were extremely generous with their raffle prize donations to help us raise £2,405 for these very worth while causes.

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