Our awards

Our Awards

Sodexo regularly receives awards and recognition for its initiatives in a variety of areas ranging from the services it delivers to human resources and environmental protection.

Footprint Awards

June 2026: Sodexo UK & Ireland won the Waste Prevention & Management Award and received Highly Commended recognition in both the Economic Sustainability and Sustainable Supplier categories.

Menu Innovation and Development Awards

March 2026: Sodexo was awarded Contract Caterer of the Year award

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British Business Awards

April 2026: Sodexo UK & Ireland was named Employer of the Year for its leadership in creating meaningful opportunities, careers and training within and outside of its business.

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FM Awards Ireland

March 2026: Sodexo Ireland won CSR initiative of the year award in recognition of the ongoing impact of Sodexo’s Stop Hunger programme. Find out more about Stop Hunger

Find out more about Stop Hunger

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Business Culture Awards

Dec 2025: Sodexo in partnership with The Happy Consultancy Group won Best Learning Initiative for its ‘Lived Experience: it’s all about you’ programme

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waste2zero Awards

Nov 2025: Sodexo won Best Resource Management Business of the Year and Best Food Waste Prevention Project Award

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PFM Partnership Awards

Nov 2025: Sodexo, in partnership with its client, was awarded the Partners in Wellbeing award for the transformative impact of a workplace wellbeing project.

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Foodservice Cateys

Oct 2025: The Good Eating Company’s Orangery TCR won the Innovation Award

Read the release: Innovative hydroponic farm

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FM Awards UK

Sept 2025: Sodexo won three awards at these inaugural awards: FM team of the year; FM project of the year and Innovation in Tech & Systems.

Read the release: Trio of wins for Sodexo

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The Cateys

July 2025: Sodexo UK & Ireland won the Sustainable Business Award for its ambitious sustainability efforts and collaborating widely to deliver continuous improvement.

Read the release: Sodexo wins sustainable business award at prestigious Cateys

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Chambers Ireland InBusiness Recognition awards

June 2025: Sodexo Ireland won Company of the Year at the 2025 Chambers Ireland InBUSINESS Recognition Awards.

Read the release: Sodexo Ireland wins Company of the Year

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Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality

June 2025: Sodexo UK & Ireland has been recognised for the second consecutive year for its commitment to creating an inclusive workplace as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025.

Read the release: Sodexo named in The Times Top 50

Business & Finance ESG Awards (Ireland)

April 25 - Sodexo Ireland was awarded the Net Zero Carbon Award for the second consecutive year.

Find out more about Sodexo’s net zero 2040 journey.

FM Awards Ireland

March 2025: Sodexo Ireland received the flagship award, Overall Excellence in Facilities Management as well as three other accolades: Diversity and Inclusivity Award, Cleaning Service Provider of the Year, and Total FM Service Provider of the Year.

Read the release: Sodexo Ireland secures top honour

Ambassador Charter Mark Award

March 2025: Sodexo UK & Ireland has been awarded the Ambassador Charter Mark Award by the Social Recruitment Advocacy Group, becoming the first organisation to achieve this highest level of recognition.

Read the release: Ambassador Charter Mark Award

Franco-British Business Awards

Nov 2025: Sodexo Stop Hunger won the Philanthropic Impact award for its exceptional efforts to fight hunger and food insecurity in the UK.

Find out more about Sodexo Stop Hunger here

Planet Mark Awards

Nov 2025: Fooditude, Sodexo's delivered-in workplace food services business won the Employee Engagement Award

Read the release here

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Top 75 Social Mobility Employer Index

Oct 2025: Sodexo has once again been named among the UK’s top 75 employers driving social mobility

Read the article: Sodexo included in 2025 Social Mobility Employer Index

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Talk Education Awards

Sept 2025: Clifton College in Bristol and its food services provider, Independents by Sodexo won the Innovation in Nutrition or Food award.

Read the article: Clifton College awarded Talk Education award

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Corporate Engagement Awards

Sept 2025: Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation won the Best Foundation category and received the coveted Grand Prix accolade.

Read the release: Stop Hunger Foundation receives grand prix

Top 100 Apprenticeship Employer 2025

July 2025: Sodexo UK & Ireland has been recognised as one of the top 100 apprenticeship employers in the country.

Read the release: Sodexo ranks in top100 apprenticeship employers

Great British Employer of Veterans Top 50

June 2025: Sodexo UK & Ireland celebrates its continued inclusion in the 50 GREAT British Employers of Veterans, compiled by the organisers of the Ex-Forces in Business Awards and created to provide a comprehensive guide to organisations setting the national standard in veteran employment.

Read the release: Sodexo’s commitment to supporting veterans

Talent Lab Awards

June 2025: Sodexo received the Best Large Recruitment Team and Best Leadership Development Strategy at the 2025 Talent Lab awards which recognise the very best of in-house talent excellence, innovation and best practice.

Find out more about careers at Sodexo

Purpose Coalition Awards

March 2025 – Sodexo’s Stop Hunger Foundation won the Building Sustainable Communities category. The award highlighted the impact of the Foundation’s partnership with Alexandra Rose Charity, whose Rose Vouchers initiative helps families in Barnsley and Liverpool access fresh, healthy food from local markets—supporting both communities and independent food retailers.

Find out more about the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation

Scottish Excellence Awards

March 2025: Heritage Portfolio, the specialist events and catering company within Sodexo Live!, secured two major wins at the prestigious Scottish Excellence Awards.

Read the release: Heritage Portfolio celebrates double win

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Caterer People Awards

November 2024: Sodexo won the Employer Brand award for ensuring that its employee proposition offers to new recruits is experienced by every existing team member too.

Read the release: Caterer People Awards

Franco-British Business Awards

November 2024: Sodexo won Sustainable Future award for its net zero strategy and the People and Community award for its work to promote social mobility and reducing inequalities through the work of the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation, its charity partner - The Bread and Butter Thing - and through its Starting Fresh initiative

Read the release: Franco-British Business Awards

Social mobility Top 75 Index

October 2024: Sodexo is the first in its industry to be included in the top 75 of the 2024 Social Mobility Employer Index by the Social Mobility Foundation.

Read the release: Social Mobility Top 75 Index

National Sustainability awards

October 2024: Sodexo UK & Ireland’s forward-thinking and collaborative net zero supply chain engagement strategy received the Supply Chain Initiative award.

Read the release: National Sustainability Awards

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Stadium Events & Hospitality Awards

July 2024: Sodexo Live! won an impressive 11 accolades including the top award for Overall Matchday Hospitality Experience going to the team at Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club, fighting off tough competition from 28 participating venues across the leagues.

Read the release: Stadium Events & Hospitality Awards 2024

Workplace Excellence Awards (Ireland)

June 2024: Sodexo Ireland was awarded the title for Excellence in Disability Awareness in the Workplace; Excellence in Leadership and Corporate Social Responsibility at these awards which recognise companies and professionals who are engaged in bringing improvements and innovative solutions into the workplace to ensure a positive and thriving environment.

Read the release: Workplace Excellence Awards (Ireland)

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Health & Safety Excellence Awards Ireland

May 2024: Sodexo’s all-Island health and safety team won Team of the Year for their work to raise the awareness of changing behaviours and to inspire a mindset of continuous improvement around health, safety and wellbeing to make Sodexo a safer place to work for its people and clients.

Read the release: Health & Safety Excellence Awards Ireland

Public Sector Catering Awards

April 2024: The DIO team at headquarters British Forces Cyprus and Sodexo’s contract team in Cyprus were awarded Team of the Year for their collaboration and support in Operation Polar Bear, the largest UK non-combatant evacuation operation involving more than 2,400 British nationals evacuated from war-torn Sudan in the summer of 2023.

Read the release: Public Sector Catering Awards

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ROSPA Awards

April 2024: Sodexo UK & Ireland has been recognised for its commitment to health and safety with six gold and two silver medals as well as four President’s Awards, given to organisations with ten or more consecutive gold medals.

Read the release: ROSPA Awards

FM Awards (Ireland)

March 2024: Sodexo Ireland won four awards including Total FM Service Provider of the Year, Facilities Management CSR Initiative of the Year, Best People Development in Facilities Management and account manager Michael Galkin won FM Service Professional of the Year.

Read the release: FM Awards (Ireland)

Inclusion in EDI awards

November 2024: Sodexo received the Stakeholder award in the inclusion in EDI maturity curve category and the DE&I team was highly commended in the EDI Team of the Year (more than 5,000 colleagues).

Read the release: Inclusion in EDI Awards

Edie Net Zero Awards 2024

November 2024: Sodexo won Net-Zero Strategy of the Year for its net zero 2040 roadmap and the Supply Chain Decarbonisation Project of the Year category for its net zero supply chain engagement strategy.

Read the release: Edie Net Zero Awards 2024

Foodservice Cateys

October 2024: Club partners Sodexo Live! and Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club received the innovation award for the introduction of a series of new technology solutions, which is elevating the customer experience for football fans at the club’s American Express Stadium (Amex).

Read the release: Foodservice Cateys 2024

Reuters Sustainability Awards

October 2024: Sodexo UK & Ireland’s forward-thinking and collaborative net zero supply chain engagement strategy received the Supply Chain Decarbonisation award.

Read the release: Reuters Sustainability Awards

Chapter One: Childrens Voice Award

June 2024: Sodexo Stop Hunger’s story-writing competition with charity partner Chapter One was voted the winner of the Children’s Voice Award at the annual Chapter One Partner, Volunteer and School Recognition Awards.

Find out more about our Partnership

Footprint Awards 2024

June 2024: Sodexo’s Starting Fresh programme which aims to encourage UK businesses to recruit people with convictions received the Social Impact and Diversity award at these awards for sustainability execellence.

Read the release: Footprint Awards 2024

Business & Finance ESG Awards (Ireland)

May 2024: Sodexo Ireland was awarded the Net Zero Carbon Award. The judges said: “Sodexo is ahead of its time with their ambitious commitment to carbon neutrality since 2010 and for clearly defined and significant results, as well as ambitious future Net Zero targets across all elements of their businesses”.

Read the release: Business & Finance ESG Awards (Irlend)

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Springboard Awards For Excellence

April 2024: Sodexo was named Partner of the Year at the Springboard Awards for Excellence 2024 with David Mulcahy, Food Innovation & Sustainability Director, School & Universities, recognised as joint winner for the Chris Beaumont Outstanding Contribution Award.

Read the release: Springboard Awards For Excellence

Contract Catering Awards

March 2024: The Sodexo Live! team at ACC Liverpool received the Sports, Leisure & Event Catering Award. Sodexo Live! is the catering partner for The ACC Liverpool Group, providing retail catering and hospitality services for the venue all-year round. The ACC Liverpool Group consists of the M&S Bank Arena, an award-winning Convention Centre, and the Exhibition Centre Liverpool.

Read the release: Contract Catering Awards

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ESG Awards

November 2023: Sodexo received a silver award at the ESG Awards in the category for Best ESG campaign or case study to improve the quality of people’s work or their access to work. This was won for the Starting Fresh programme which drives awareness of the practical steps organisations can take to recruit ex-offenders directly from prisons via recruitment days and visits to prison training facilities to meet people achieving relevant qualifications during their sentence.

Find out more about Starting Fresh

Foodservice Cateys

October 2023: Sodexo Schools took home the Best Use of Technology award for School Food United. The Extra Mile Award went to Sodexo Government for its work providing food services round the clock for the thousands of military and government personnel involved following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the period of official mourning, the state funeral and subsequently the Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla

Read the release: Foodservice Cateys 2023

Northern Ireland Cleaning Awards

June 2023: it was a triple triumph at the 2023 awards with Sodexo colleagues taking home the Cleaning Operative of the Year for both the offices over 100,000 sq.ft and the offices under 100,000 sq.ft as well as winning the Education Cleaning Operative category.

Read the release: Northern Ireland Cleaning Awards 2023

IWFM Impact Awards

October 2023: The Sodexo team at Northumbria University received the Excellence in Customer Experience award for its Residency Living programme which delivers support for students from the start of their university journey through proactive and reactive initiatives to help them thrive

Read the release: IMFM Impact Awards 2023

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Stadium Events & Hospitality Awards

June 2023: Sodexo Live! received 11 accolades with Newcastle United FC taking home the big award of the night - overall matchday hospitality champions - plus three other wins.

Read the release: Stadium Events & Hospitality Awards 2023

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International recognition

Sodexo is regularly awarded prizes and international recognition for its initiatives in a variety of areas ranging from services to human resources and environmental protection.

Find out more about our international recognition

Our Awards

Awards 2026

Footprint Awards

Menu Innovation and Development Awards

British Business Awards

FM Awards Ireland

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Awards 2025

Business Culture Awards

waste2zero Awards

PFM Partnership Awards

Foodservice Cateys

FM Awards UK

The Cateys

Chambers Ireland InBusiness Recognition awards

Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality

Business & Finance ESG Awards (Ireland)

FM Awards Ireland

Ambassador Charter Mark Award

Franco-British Business Awards

Planet Mark Awards

Top 75 Social Mobility Employer Index

Talk Education Awards

Corporate Engagement Awards

Top 100 Apprenticeship Employer 2025

Great British Employer of Veterans Top 50

Talent Lab Awards

Purpose Coalition Awards

Scottish Excellence Awards

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Awards 2024

Caterer People Awards

Franco-British Business Awards

Social mobility Top 75 Index

National Sustainability awards

Stadium Events & Hospitality Awards

Workplace Excellence Awards (Ireland)

Health & Safety Excellence Awards Ireland

Public Sector Catering Awards

ROSPA Awards

FM Awards (Ireland)

Inclusion in EDI awards

Edie Net Zero Awards 2024

Foodservice Cateys

Reuters Sustainability Awards

Chapter One: Childrens Voice Award

Footprint Awards 2024

Business & Finance ESG Awards (Ireland)

Springboard Awards For Excellence

Contract Catering Awards

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Awards 2023

ESG Awards

Foodservice Cateys

Northern Ireland Cleaning Awards

IWFM Impact Awards

Stadium Events & Hospitality Awards

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International recognition

Awards 2026

Footprint Awards

Menu Innovation and Development Awards

British Business Awards

FM Awards Ireland

Awards 2025

Business Culture Awards

waste2zero Awards

PFM Partnership Awards

Foodservice Cateys

FM Awards UK

The Cateys

Chambers Ireland InBusiness Recognition awards

Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality

Business & Finance ESG Awards (Ireland)

FM Awards Ireland

Ambassador Charter Mark Award

Franco-British Business Awards

Planet Mark Awards

Top 75 Social Mobility Employer Index

Talk Education Awards