(3 July, 2017) LONDON - The National Diversity Awards are the UK’s largest diversity awards and celebrate the outstanding achievements of those who have demonstrated their devotion to enhancing equality, diversity and inclusion in today’s society.  

Reed Smith has been shortlisted from over 22,000 nominations for the Diverse Company Award, alongside RBS, Gateshead College, Wirral Change, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust, NELFT NHS Foundation Trust, West Yorkshire Police, Second Battalion the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment, Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and Channel 4. 

The Diverse Company Award identifies a company that employs a diverse workforce and is better able to understand the demographics of the marketplace it serves, and whose goals are to reassure and encourage people from the most deprived areas to further their careers.