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.
Oct 2026: Sodexo Live! group executive development chef Ian Page won Chef of the Year and Laura Moorcroft, regional support manager for Sodexo at Colchester Garrison was awarded the Extra Mile award for her work creating inclusive and enriching workplace experiences for young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
Sept 2026: Sodexo Health & Care won the Best Workplace Performance & Transformation Award for a brand-new digital restaurant concept at Colchester Hospital.
Sept 2026: Deborah Rowland and Sonia Mangat were recognised by their peers for the impact they're making, not just within Sodexo, but across the wider industry. Deborah won the Contribution to the Industry Award and Sonia was named in the Top 50 Class of 2026.
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July 2026: Sodexo UK & Ireland ranked 43rd in the Department for Work and Pensions’ 2026 list. Sodexo has pledged to recruit 100 foundation-level apprentices as part of the government’s Youth Guarantee scheme created to ensure every young person is either earning or learning.
June 2026: For the third consecutive year Sodexo UK & Ireland has been recognised in the UK’s most highly profiled and well-established listing of employers taking action to create workplaces where everyone, regardless of their gender, can thrive. Read the releas
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.
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
Oct 2026: Sodexo UK & Ireland was awarded the Leadership of the Year award and its Culinary Academy was highly commended in the Progression Programme of the Year category.
Sept 2026: Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation and its charity partner, The Bread and Butter Thing, won the Corporate Community Local Involvement award.
Sept 2026: Deborah Rowland and Sonia Mangat were recognised by their peers for the impact they're making, not just within Sodexo, but across the wider industry. Deborah won the Contribution to the Industry Award and Sonia was named in the Top 50 Class of 2026.
July 2026: Sodexo Live! won ten awards across its UK stadia portfolio at the 2026 awards recognising excellence in matchday hospitality, events, sales, marketing and operational delivery.
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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.
March 2026: Sodexo was awarded Contract Caterer of the Year award
Dec 2025: Sodexo in partnership with The Happy Consultancy Group won Best Learning Initiative for its ‘Lived Experience: it’s all about you’ programme
Nov 2025: Sodexo won Best Resource Management Business of the Year and Best Food Waste Prevention Project Award
Nov 2025: Sodexo, in partnership with its client, was awarded the Partners in Wellbeing award for the transformative impact of a workplace wellbeing project.
Oct 2025: The Good Eating Company’s Orangery TCR won the Innovation Award
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.
July 2025: Sodexo UK & Ireland won the Sustainable Business Award for its ambitious sustainability efforts and collaborating widely to deliver continuous improvement.
June 2025: Sodexo Ireland won Company of the Year at the 2025 Chambers Ireland InBUSINESS Recognition Awards.
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.
April 25 - Sodexo Ireland was awarded the Net Zero Carbon Award for the second consecutive year.
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.
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.
Nov 2025: Sodexo Stop Hunger won the Philanthropic Impact award for its exceptional efforts to fight hunger and food insecurity in the UK.
Nov 2025: Fooditude, Sodexo's delivered-in workplace food services business won the Employee Engagement Award
Oct 2025: Sodexo has once again been named among the UK’s top 75 employers driving social mobility
Sept 2025: Clifton College in Bristol and its food services provider, Independents by Sodexo won the Innovation in Nutrition or Food award.
Sept 2025: Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation won the Best Foundation category and received the coveted Grand Prix accolade.
July 2025: Sodexo UK & Ireland has been recognised as one of the top 100 apprenticeship employers in the country.
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.
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.
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.
March 2025: Heritage Portfolio, the specialist events and catering company within Sodexo Live!, secured two major wins at the prestigious Scottish Excellence 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.
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
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.
October 2024: Sodexo UK & Ireland’s forward-thinking and collaborative net zero supply chain engagement strategy received the Supply Chain Initiative award.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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).
October 2024: Sodexo UK & Ireland’s forward-thinking and collaborative net zero supply chain engagement strategy received the Supply Chain Decarbonisation 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.
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.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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