Awards and indices

Winner of the Chartered Insurance Institute Public Trust Award April 2019

Our Youth Skills programme sees Zurich employees go into schools local to our offices and deliver sessions on building a career in insurance, financial literacy and workplace skills.

The Programme focuses on schools in disadvantaged areas so that we help students who might not receive the same insights, guidance and connections otherwise. In the 2017/18 school year, 177 Zurich colleagues volunteered 418 hours to speak with 1,929 students.

Awards for work on Diversity & Inclusion

In November 2018 Zurich won Insurance Times’ Gold Award for Diversity and Inclusion Excellence. Judged by an independent panels of experts from across the sector, the IT awards shine a light on outstanding achievement in our industry. The judges particularly highlighted our work on the Inclusive Insurance Pledge. We also won the Life Insurance International Award for Diversity in October 2018.

Platinum award for Payroll Giving

Zurich has been awarded a Platinum Quality Mark Award in the Payroll Giving Quality Awards. Run by the Charities Aid Foundation, they recognise organisations who make Payroll Giving available for their staff and foster a culture of committed giving in the workplace by actively promoting Payroll Giving.

The Platinum Award recognises those employers who continually strive to increase donations to UK charities through Payroll Giving. Over 24% of Zurich's UK employees support the work of the Zurich Community Trust through a regular payroll giving donation.

Winner, Parliamentary Responsible Business Awards

In 2017 Zurich won the All Party Parlimentary CR Group's Responsible Business Champion Awards. We were nominated by Swindon MP Justin Tomlinson for our work on diversity, wellbeing and, in particular, the great work our employees do in the local community.