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Awards and Recognition

Our projects and people are often recognised by industry awards for their successes and for going above regulatory requirements.

This allows us to celebrate our achievements whilst benchmarking best practice and managing continuous improvement.

Here’s some of the awards we have been awarded recently:

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2026

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Employers Excellence Awards

Outstanding Commitment to the Environment - for our commitment to keeping the environment and sustainability at the heart of our strategy.

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Water Industry Awards

Customer Initiative of the Year - for our Collaborative Streetworks scheme with Network Plus, United Utilities and PGL Pipelines Ltd.

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IGEM Gas Industry Awards 2026

Special recognition: Howard Forster, Chief Operating Officer.
Safety: Trailblazing a safety-first culture.
Early Career Achievement: Harveen Matharu, Senior Pipeline Engineer.
Engineer of the year: Danny Cheatham, Senior Integrity Engineer.
Net Zero Innovation: The intelligent gas grid - together with Utonomy, DNV, National Gas, SGN, Northern Gas Networks and Wales and West Utilities.

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Fleet News Awards

Most improved fleet operator – recognising a complete restructure of the Cadent fleet, which has resulted in significant improvements across all key performance indicators.

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Great British Workplace Wellbeing Awards

Risk Management award - recognising our approach to health, wellbeing and occupational safety.
Recognising our risk‑based, data‑driven approach, and how we use employee insights, health assessments and role‑specific hazard reviews to keep our colleagues Safe+Well.

2025

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This Can Happen Global Awards

Best Financial Wellbeing Programme - Reward, Pensions, Wellbeing, and Communications teams
For holistically supporting our colleagues wellbeing and embedding a culture of care, as an ongoing commitment.

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Fertility Friendly Employer Awards

Fertility Ally/Champion Award – Liz Brand, Cadent.
Employee Resource Group of the Year – Fertility Matters at Cadent (FMAC).
Highly Commended: Fertility Friendly Employer of the Year – Cadent.

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Midland Finance Awards

Transactional Finance Team of the year – Cadent Finance team.

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IGEM Gas Industry Awards

Customer Service Award – Services Beyond the Meter
Early Career Achievement – Daniel Mee, Principal Integrity Engineer - for his work on working safely projects.
Project of the year – Advanced leak reduction transformation with Picarro and Picarro ALD Technology.

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Energy & Utility Skills Conference and Awards

Apprentice of the Year - Zameer Samit, an apprentice in the London Network, won this award for his adaptability in a digital learning environment. The judges praised his courage and perseverance in the face of challenges.

2024

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IGEM Gas Industry Awards

Project of the Year - Centres for Warmth
Large Company of the Year - Cadent

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Utility Week Awards

Cost of Living Award - Cadent and Cadent Foundation as a ‘Force for good’

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UK National Contact Centres Awards

Change Maker – Dan Edwards (Head of Customer Centre Operations)
Customer Centre Leadership Team of the Year – National Gas Emergency Service

Third Sector Business Charity Awards

Consortium Award – Centres for Warmth

UK CX Awards

Best Business Change and Transformation
Best Employee Experience - Large Company

Energy and Skills Utilities Awards

Attraction & Recruitment Campaign - Careers Team
Best Employer - Cadent

Considerate Contractor Streetworks Scheme (CCSS) - City of London Awards

Gold Award
Communications Award
Innovation Award

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