Overview 

The joint Accelerator and PCA Showcase Awards 2020 were created to recognise and celebrate innovation in service quality, employee wellbeing and leadership during the ongoing pandemic. With almost 30 years’ combined experience in helping organisations build their reputation through improved service, leadership and communication, we're celebrating the businesses whose dedication to service excellence, employee wellbeing and human-centred leadership has been exceptional during 2020.

 

Open to any organisation in any sector or industry, the Showcase Awards provided an opportunity for companies to showcase their adaptability and demonstrate their success in delivering against the odds, both internally and externally, in these ambiguous times.

Following a thorough evaluation by our expert judges, we are now delighted to announce below the results of the Accelerator PCA Showcase Awards 2020, where the overall winners are Doro Care UK, Deckers Europe and Anchor Hanover. In addition, FirstPort, Fora Space and Landmark Space were also commended for their very convincing entries.

The categories, judges and results are summarised below. We are preparing the full results publication for release by the end of February 2021. To receive a copy, please enter your details using the form at the bottom of this page.

 

Categories

 

Service Excellence During Crisis – Recognised companies and teams who continued to provide exceptional customer service in the context of pandemic challenges

Employee Wellbeing – Recognised companies going the extra mile to help their employees during the pandemic, or those that inspired and supported their employees in new or remarkable ways.

Human-centred Leadership – Celebrated organisations that acted proactively at leadership level to give clear communication, demonstrated compassionate leadership through change and instilled confidence that the organisation will find its way through the crisis.

Meet the Judges

 

Accelerator PCA Showcase Awards 2020 Results

Service Excellence During Crisis

 


Anchor Hanover is England’s largest not for profit provider of housing and care for older people. We manage 54,000 properties with over 60,000 residents, across 1,700 sites and are supported by more 10,000 colleagues. We provide retirement housing to rent and to buy, retirement villages and residential care homes, including specialist dementia care and operate in more than 90% of local councils in England.  
    
Anchor Hanover also operate 114 care homes in England, nine of which were rated Outstanding at their most recent CQC inspections.

Doro is a provider of technology-enabled care services to corporate clients such as County Councils and Housing Associations, as well as private self-funding customers.  In its simplest form it is a pendant alarm that is worn around the neck or wrist that the user presses if they need 24/7 emergency assistance. There is also a wide range of additional sensors that support people with dementia, carers, long term conditions and mental health issues to live independently at home.  Our services focus on independent living, peace of mind and safety and security and have been of particular importance during the pandemic.

 

FirstPort is the UK’s leading residential property service provider, caring for 290,000 homes in England, Wales and Scotland, across 5,000 developments.  With over four decades of experience and 4,000 employees, FirstPort works with developers, investors, freeholders and over 1,000 Resident Management Companies.

Deckers Europe Ltd are a global footwear company, who own a number of exciting brands including UGG and HOKA. From the EMEA head office located in London, we service both B2B and B2C customers via our multi-lingual Operations Team for the whole region, with accounts and consumers based in UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and Poland, in addition to supporting a distributor network covering most other European countries.


Fora is a premium flexible workplace provider giving our clients - we call them Residents – the freedom to choose where and how they work most productively. Marrying style and function, Fora creates vibrant, dynamic workspaces that drive productivity, inspiration and collaboration.

Fora was founded in 2016 by Katrina Larkin and Enrico Sanna, with their extensive experience in the hospitality and leisure industries. Starting with one location in Old Street, Fora now own, operate and manage 18 locations across London and Reading. Understanding that happy, healthy people deliver their best work, Fora’s approach considers the whole person in every Resident.

The Mastercard Payment Gateway is the third largest gateway worldwide by annual volume. We provide end-to-end technology that enables partner acquiring banks and their merchants to accept global digital payments from across multiple channels, brands and markets. As Mastercard’s in-house gateway, we deliver the resilience, security and investment in innovation of a global payments leader which provides our customers and partners with access to an ever-growing catalog of merchant-facing solutions.


McDermott Will & Emery is a global law firm, with expertise in the following legal areas:
•    Antitrust
•    Corporate & Transactional
•    Crisis Management
•    Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
•    Employment
•    Global Privacy & Cybersecurity
•    Intellectual Property
•    Litigation & Dispute Resolution
•    Private Client & Wealth Management
•    Real Estate
•    Regulatory, Government & Lobbying Strategies
•    Restructuring & Insolvency
•    Strategic Solutions
•    Tax
•    White Collar

We strive to provide superior, innovative client service, while also giving back to our communities through our pro bono and community service initiatives.

NG Bailey is the UK’s largest independent engineering and services business with a reputation for excellence. We offer integration from the outset of a project, from planning and design through the supply chain, to offsite manufacture, installation and maintenance. As a market leader, we are committed to offering tailored and innovative solutions and have a proven track record in doing so in a broad range of market sectors. Our people are at the heart of our organisation and it is recognised that we have one of the industry’s foremost apprenticeship schemes.

Employee Wellbeing

 


Deckers Europe Ltd are a global footwear company, who own a number of exciting brands including UGG and HOKA. From the EMEA head office located in London, we service both B2B and B2C customers via our multi-lingual Operations team for the whole region, with accounts and consumers based in UK, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland and Poland, in addition to supporting a distributor network coving most other European countries. All business support functions are based in London, with country specific sales, marketing and HR represented based in the field. Deckers Europe Ltd have approximately 650 employees across the UK and Europe.

Fora is a premium flexible workplace provider giving our clients - we call them Residents – the freedom to choose where and how they work most productively. Marrying style and function, Fora creates vibrant, dynamic workspaces that drive productivity, inspiration and collaboration.

Fora was founded in 2016 by Katrina Larkin and Enrico Sanna, with their extensive experience in the hospitality and leisure industries. Starting with one location in Old Street, Fora now own, operate and manage 18 locations across London and Reading. Understanding that happy, healthy people deliver their best work, Fora’s approach considers the whole person in every Resident.


Landmark creates stunning professional workspaces. Our approach is to blend new ways of working with a business class experience. Landmark operates 42 business centres in prime city centre locations, in 10 different cities across the UK, totalling over 1 million square feet. Our workspaces have been designed to enhance productivity and create a positive environment for our clients, while our teams are professionally trained to Institute of Customer Service standards to deliver an unrivalled service. Landmark have c.150 employees.

Anchor Hanover is England’s largest not for profit provider of housing and care for older people. We manage 54,000 properties with over 60,000 residents, across 1,700 sites and are supported by more 10,000 colleagues. We provide retirement housing to rent and to buy, retirement villages and residential care homes, including specialist dementia care and operate in more than 90% of local councils in England.  
    
Anchor Hanover also operate 114 care homes in England, nine of which were rated Outstanding at their most recent CQC inspections.


IMServ Europe Ltd provide Utility Metering Installation & Maintenance alongside Data Collection, Energy Efficiency & Energy Management Services. We also provide end-to-end data management solutions delivering tangible energy savings.

The Mastercard Payment Gateway is the third largest gateway worldwide by annual volume. We provide end-to-end technology that enables partner acquiring banks and their merchants to accept global digital payments from across multiple channels, brands and markets. As Mastercard’s in-house gateway, we deliver the resilience, security and investment in innovation of a global payments leader which provides our customers and partners with access to an ever-growing catalog of merchant-facing solutions.


McDermott Will & Emery is a global law firm, with expertise in the following legal areas:
•    Antitrust
•    Corporate & Transactional
•    Crisis Management
•    Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation
•    Employment
•    Global Privacy & Cybersecurity
•    Intellectual Property
•    Litigation & Dispute Resolution
•    Private Client & Wealth Management
•    Real Estate
•    Regulatory, Government & Lobbying Strategies
•    Restructuring & Insolvency
•    Strategic Solutions
•    Tax
•    White Collar

We strive to provide superior, innovative client service, while also giving back to our communities through our pro bono and community service initiatives.

Notting Hill Genesis was formed in April 2018 from Notting Hill Housing and Genesis Housing Association, but our roots reach back to the 1960s when our legacy organisations were established by local people who shared a similar vision – to house west London’s working poor, providing them with a home from which to build themselves and their families a secure future. We're a member of the G15 group of major housing providers in London and the South East.

 


Siemens Mobility in the UK and Ireland keeps people moving. Its three business units install and maintain signalling and train control systems, sell and maintain trains, and deliver road traffic control equipment and traffic management systems. The types of contract we deliver range from the new fleet of Thameslink trains to the current upgrading of the East Coast Main Line signalling and the London ULEZ system. In the UK there are 4500 employees based around offices in Chippenham, London, Poole and Northampton, with many hundreds maintaining trains, installing signalling and maintaining traffic signals working in the field across the country.

 

Human-centred Leadership

 

Anchor Hanover is England’s largest not for profit provider of housing and care for older people. We manage 54,000 properties with over 60,000 residents, across 1,700 sites and are supported by more 10,000 colleagues. We provide retirement housing to rent and to buy, retirement villages and residential care homes, including specialist dementia care and operate in more than 90% of local councils in England.  
    
Anchor Hanover also operate 114 care homes in England, nine of which were rated Outstanding at their most recent CQC inspections.


Fora is a premium flexible workplace provider giving our clients - we call them Residents – the freedom to choose where and how they work most productively. Marrying style and function, Fora creates vibrant, dynamic workspaces that drive productivity, inspiration and collaboration.

Fora was founded in 2016 by Katrina Larkin and Enrico Sanna, with their extensive experience in the hospitality and leisure industries. Starting with one location in Old Street, Fora now own, operate and manage 18 locations across London and Reading. Understanding that happy, healthy people deliver their best work, Fora’s approach considers the whole person in every Resident.

The Mastercard Payment Gateway is the third largest gateway worldwide by annual volume. We provide end-to-end technology that enables partner acquiring banks and their merchants to accept global digital payments from across multiple channels, brands and markets. As Mastercard’s in-house gateway, we deliver the resilience, security and investment in innovation of a global payments leader which provides our customers and partners with access to an ever-growing catalog of merchant-facing solutions.

 We are preparing the full Accelerator PCA Showcase Awards 2020 results publication for release by the end of February 2021. To receive a copy, please enter your details below.

 

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