Charity-Business Relationship of the Year 2024

Ambitious about Autism and Marsh McLennan

The transformative partnership exemplifies a groundbreaking partnership, which has trailblazed ‘autism confidence’ in the insurance sector, creating long lasting change for autistic young people and systemic change for employers.

The partnership addresses the shocking issue that only 29% of autistic people are in employment. Since 2021, they’ve collaborated to set the ‘gold standard’ for inclusive employment practices and developed an ‘autism confidence’ framework for others to adopt to tackle this high unemployment rate. The partnership has driven multiple mutual benefits for each organisation, allowing each to fulfil goals and grow together.

Together they’ve been able to amplify the voices of autistic young people, provide life changing job opportunities, enrich our cultures, bring fresh perspectives and enhance employee engagement through fundraising/volunteer opportunities and autism awareness training.