Top 100 Apprenticeship Employer 2025
July 2025: Sodexo UK & Ireland has been recognised as one of the top 100 apprenticeship employers in the country.
Our awards
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Chambers Ireland InBusiness Recognition awards
June 2025: Sodexo Ireland won Company of the Year at the 2025 Chambers Ireland InBUSINESS Recognition Awards.
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.
Business & Finance ESG Awards (Ireland)
April 25 - Sodexo Ireland was awarded the Net Zero Carbon Award for the second consecutive year.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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