Core Assets has once again been named as one of Britain’s best employers for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) staff, by leading gay rights charity Stonewall. 

With headquarters in Bromsgrove, Core Assets has been placed 32 out of an overall entry of 397 companies to Stonewall’s annual Workplace Equality Index.

Executive director at Core Assets, Estella Abraham commented: “As an organisation committed to diversity and equality in the workplace, we are proud to be recognised once again for championing the rights of the LGB community, at all levels of the business both nationally and internationally.” Steve Jacques, diversity champion at Core Assets added: “From grass roots through to senior management, we have a long-standing culture of inclusiveness, ensuring that Core Assets is a great place to work or be a foster carer, whatever your sexual orientation. We continue to drive initiatives to protect employees from discrimination and to promote a culture of equality and diversity throughout our 93 operations in 13 countries.

The Stonewall Top 100 Employers are the best performing employers on Stonewall’s workplace Equality Index 2015, an annual audit of workplace culture for lesbian, gay and bisexual staff. Free to enter for any employer, 397 organisations submitted entries to the 2015 Index, the highest number since it opened in 2005. All of the Top 100 are members of Stonewall’s Diversity Champions programme

As part of the Index there is a staff feedback questionnaire that participating employers can ask their staff to complete.  This year Stonewall received 50,070 responses to the staff survey making it one of the largest national employment surveys in Britain, with 10,592 lesbian, gay and bisexual respondents. The questionnaire results found that only three in five (57 percent) respondents said that they were comfortable disclosing their sexual orientation to all colleagues and only half (53 percent) were comfortable disclosing their sexual orientation to all managers and senior colleagues. Simon Feeke, Stonewall Director of Workplace Programmes said: “Core Assets and every single employer who secured a position on the Stonewall Top 100 Employers 2015 list performed remarkably this year. Competition has never been fiercer and the new criteria this year has pushed all of the Top 100 to work harder than ever before.”