NIC Services Group Ltd recognised in the 2025 Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List

NIC Services Group Ltd has been ranked number 32 in the 2025/26 Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List, revealed at the Inclusive Awards on November 27, 2025. The list, produced by Inclusive Companies, highlights employers that show sustained commitment to inclusion across their whole organisation and across all strands of diversity.

Marking its tenth year, the Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List continues to set the benchmark for organisations creating workplaces where people feel valued, supported and able to succeed. Judging covers gender, disability, age, LGBTQ+, race, faith and religion, as well as long-term progress and cultural impact.

Inclusion sits at the heart of NIC’s approach to people and culture. The company continues to invest in programmes that open access to development, strengthen representation and support colleague wellbeing. Recent initiatives include an expanded leadership development pathway, a strengthened mental health and wellbeing network and forum groups that give colleagues a direct voice in shaping policy and practice. These are supported by ongoing training designed to build understanding and confidence in inclusive behaviours across the business.
John Spencer, Group Chairman, said, “We are proud to be recognised in this year’s list. Our teams work hard to create an environment where people feel they belong and can grow their careers. This recognition shows the progress we are making and encourages us to keep raising our standards.”

Laura Sterling, Chief People Officer, said, “Being named in the Inclusive Top 50 is an important milestone for us. It reflects the work our people have put into building a supportive and fair workplace. Inclusion remains a priority, and we will continue to strengthen our efforts year after year.”

Paul Sesay, Founder and CEO of Inclusive Companies, said, “Every year, the standard rises as organisations demonstrate ever-stronger evidence of their commitment to truly inclusive cultures. The IT50 List celebrates employers who go beyond initiatives and policies and instead embed diversity and inclusion into the fabric of how they operate. Our judges look for consistency, authenticity and long-term impact, and this year’s entries show just how many organisations are investing in meaningful, sustainable change.”

View the full 2025/26 index here: https://www.inclusivecompanies.co.uk/inclusivetop50/2025rankings/

Sectors

Car Showrooms and Dealerships

NIC understand the importance of the buying experience to your clients and that the highest level of service will best reflect the quality of your vehicles.

Distribution and Logistics

We understand the importance of distribution within the retail supply chain. This industry demands a special level of service that often involves precision time-tabling and the highest standards of hygiene.

Education

NIC has a long-standing history within the education sector. With our extensive experience, we understand the requirements of service delivery to schools both during term-time and holiday periods.

Offices

NIC fully understand the importance of providing your staff with a clean, well-maintained and safe working environment.

Retail

NIC recognise the importance of perception and the customer experience to our clients. In such a fast-paced environment as retail first impressions really do count.

Medical

We understand that infection control, hygiene and cleanliness are paramount to the Healthcare Sector’s service delivery.

Events and Stadia

Customer satisfaction and perception is at the heart of a positive experience at an event or stadium attraction.

Hospitality

The Hospitality industry backbone is comprised of customer service, a concept shared by NIC.

Leisure

At NIC we know how demanding the leisure environment can be. The strict level of hygiene and cleanliness that is required, has to be met by an experienced and professional team.

Hotels and Housekeeping

NIC recognises that first impressions are crucial within the hotel industry and the presentation of your hotel rooms and reception areas are extremely important to your customers and ultimately to your reputation.

Manufacturing and Industrial

Whether you have a manufacturing plant or factory, we understand that these types of industrial facilities are often the most challenging environments to keep clean and safe.

Student Accommodation

NIC understands the quick student accommodation turn arounds required at the end of the academic year.

Testimonials

NIC Services Group Ltd have had a relationship with us for over 30yrs, they have always been competitive, maintained high standards and provided consistent performance in our stores, their approach is a “can do” attitude combined with an innovative and professional approach in their work. They have embraced the challenges we have given them and ultimately, they have helped us become more efficient, effective whilst driving down the cost base. NIC Services Group have always delivered on their promises, and we are delighted to have them as a facilities partner.

When our contract with NIC expired recently, we were happy to extend our relationship by a further year based on their performance during the initial two year period. NIC have performed well and we are looking forward to working with them to drive even more improvement in the coming year.

We are very pleased to continue our long-standing relationship with NIC following a recent contract renewal and look forward to them continuing to deliver clean, safe environments for all our users.

We have been very impressed with the level of service provided by NIC since we began working with them. The cleaning standards have been significantly improved, and we find their cleaning teams to be punctual, courteous and they have impressed us with their ‘can do’ attitude.

NIC’s experience within the retail sector and their company ethics was a major factor in us choosing to work with them. We have been impressed with their professional approach and quality service they have provided to our retail locations. The cleaning teams are friendly and efficient, providing an excellent service with minimum disruption to our staff and customers.

We’re proud to be working with fellow Leeds-based company NIC to deliver high standards of cleaning across our estate. Our partnership approach with NIC benefits from one dedicated point of contact and allows us to trial some innovative and sustainable cleaning technologies at our UK sites. We deliver more than 335 million parcels each year to customers across the UK and NIC’s support enables us to continually improve our standards.

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