September 18, 2025
And the UK Employee Experience 2025 Awards Winners Are…
Wednesday, 17th of September saw the UK’s EX great and good, plus an impressive showing of new EX talent gather at the Hilton Hotel, Paddington in London. Under the stage lights, over 200 guests saw teams collect Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards across 16 Employee Experience categories of the UKEXA25 event, now in its ninth year.
Across the day, guests enjoyed a networking event, lively panel discussion on EX challenges led by Nathan Dring, and a three-course dinner during the awards. All that while raising over £4,000 for Barnado’s childrens’ charity through a raffle.
Big winners were Dorset’s Verplas (read more on their triple win here), business behavioural science firm Sprint Valley and health giant Bupa, with Alternate Future Group’s Kirsty Murphy taking home the Leader of the Year Award.
The #UKEXA25 Gold Winners Are…
Best Company Culture
Best Company Culture 1000+
Best Employee Centric Company
Best Employee Engagement
Best Reward & Recognition
Best Employee Driven Customer Experience
Best Place to Work
Best L&D/Employee Experience Journey
Best Use of Technology
Best CSR/Diversity & Inclusion
Best Use of Employee Insight & Feedback
Best Change Management/Employee-Driven Business Change
Best Health and Wellbeing Programme
Team of the Year
Leader of the Year
Overall Winner
Lifetime Achievement Award
Verplas Ltd
First direct bank
Octopus Energy
Sprint Valley in partnership with Agena Group
HGS UK in partnership with Rippl
Bupa
Octopus Energy
Dishoom
Reed in Partnership
Trust Alliance Group
NatWest Group
Sprint Valley in partnership with Agena Group
Bupa
Verplas Ltd
Alternate Futures Group – Kirsty Murphy
Sprint Valley in partnership with Agena Group
Gethin Nadin
An honourable mention goes to the guests on table 19, picking up five Awards between them, proving that non-tech companies, and businesses which genuinely did not expect to win can succeed in the awards landscape.
Restaurant chain Dishoom (Gold Award for Best Learning and Development, and Bronze for Team of the Year), Mabo (Bronze for Best Learning and Development, and Best Employee Driven Customer Experience) and Gate One (Bronze for Diversity and Inclusion).
Congratulations to them and thanks for making CXM a part of their night.
David Dungay, the new Editor in Chief of CXM, cut a busy figure at the UKEXA25 Awards, presenting Kirsty Murphy of the Alternate Future Group with the Leader of the Year Award, and interviewing all the winners as they exited the stage.
He noted that “It was a delight to see such enthusiasm for the awards, and the energy of the teams in delivering world-class employee experiences. It is vital to bring together the industry to celebrate this success and share the latest best practices, while driving EX as inspirational and a must for future leaders and today’s employees.”
If you want to join the Employee Experience Awards for its 10th anniversary event, keep an eye on the Awards International page for further information on how to enter.
