As members of the 5% Club we pledge that at least 5% of our workforce will be in formalised apprenticeships, sponsored students or on graduate development schemes. At the end of 2021, 5.7% of our people fulfilled those criteria.

We collaborate with Aldersgate Group to share knowledge and tackle issues important to our industry and to the communities we work in.

We are signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant, and hold their silver award supporting the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

Our data is verified annually by Bureau Veritas. Our certificate for 2021 can be found here.

We were recertified by the Carbon trust standard in 2021, gaining a best in sector score.

First contractor and third company globally to be certified to Level 3 of the Carbon Trust’s Supply Chain Standard.

We have been signatories of the Care Leavers Covenant since 2019.

A CLOCS Champion is an organisation committed to actively promoting and implementing the national CLOCS Standard. See the Champions Directory to find out who else is involved.

We are an approved Disability Confident employer.

In 2020, our Construction business was awarded Investors in People (IIP) – Platinum, the highest accolade possible for the top benchmark for people investment and development. This follows on from Gold for Willmott Dixon Interiors. We will be reassessed at the end of 2022/early 2023.

Since 2020, we have been a Real Living Wage Employer.

Our people sit on the National Social Value Taskforce.

We sit on the Board of the Pagabo Foundation. The Foundation works to raise awareness of mental health in the construction industry.

We are a RICS Inclusive Employer.

We work with SEUK to identify social enterprises we can use within our business.

We are a member of the Social Value Portal.

We are founding members of the Supply Chain Sustainability School, delivering learning across the industry's shared supply chain.

Our Now or Never targets are science-based, meaning they are aligned to keeping global warming levels to 1.5C.

Through our partnership with Stronger Together we offer free workshops to our people and our supply chain partners on spotting the signs of modern slavery and taking action to prevent it. We are a founding member of both Stronger Together’s Construction Group.

Willmott Dixon is the first contractor to sign up to all three of The Climate Group’s initiatives: for renewable energy (RE100), electric vehicles (EV100) and energy provision (EP100).

We are a member of this organisation which campaigns for a more sustainable built environment.