If you can take the time to apply for these kinds of employer awards, you can use them to help attract the best candidates when recruiting
list of UK employer awards 2021.
With tools like Glassdoor and Indeed encouraging jobseekers to research potential new employers, it's important that you make a great first impression. There are lots of great companies out there that have a great service/product, but don’t have the time to research and enter competitions. This is more true for HR departments that might have very high levels of employee engagement, and offer a great work environment, but they just don’t have the time to research the Employer Awards that they could run for.
If you can take the time to apply for these kinds of employer awards, you can use them to help attract the best candidates when recruiting. Here's an example of how the winner of the 2021 UK's Best Mid-sized Companies to work for, use their award on the jobs page on their website:

We know you're busy, so we thought we would do the research for you! See below for a list of some of the most prominent awards that our research found. If you have any feedback or suggestions for this list, please feel free to contact me on adrian@hireful.co.uk
name of awards hosted by website link
Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For The Sunday Times View Details
Great Place to Work Awards Great Place to Work View Details
Top Employers for Working Families Working Families View Details
The Dons UK Business Awardst View Details
SME National Business Awards SME National Business Awards View Details
UK Excellence Awards BQF View Details
Best Places to Work UK Glassdoor View Details
The Peer Awards for Excellence The Peer Awards for Excellence View Details
PLC Awards 2020 PLC View Details
Profit Track 100 The Sunday Times View Details
Building Public Trust Awards PWC View Details
British Small Business Awards smallbusiness.co.uk & growthbusiness.co.uk View Details
Top Track 100 The Sunday Times
National Business Awards UK Lloyds Bank View Details
Top Track 250 The Sunday Times
Top Employers UK Top Employers Institute View Details
The National Diversity Awards National Diversity Awards View Details
Caterer.com People Awards Caterer.com View Details
Employee Benefits Awards AON View Details
The British LGBT Awards Natwest View Details
Britain’s Most Admired Companies BMAC View Details
The National Undergraduate Employability Awards NUE Awards