Babcock seeks to engage with the communities around our sites and operations and to provide opportunities for employees to assist with local initiatives and support local charities and businesses that are important to us.

“By understanding our local community needs and responding to them by exploring opportunities for us to contribute to the support for employment and skills, inclusion and diversity, supporting community events and our shared values of inspiring ambition, reaching minority communities and nurturing and championing young talent. We are very proud to be a part of these awards and our newly formed relationship with DBI. 

Our goal is to create a safe place for everyone to be themselves and to feel comfortable and happy at work with who they are.”

Our Purpose is to create a safe and secure world together and our Principles define and underpin our ways of working. We provide a range of support to deliver tactical and critical services to our defence and civil customers and we design, manufacture and integrate specialist defence and civil systems and equipment..

These capabilities are delivered by our 26,000 people through four operational sectors. In the South West region of England, we contribute £1.1bn to GDP, 19400 jobs sustained with 10,400 directly employed, 300 graduates 620 apprentices training with Babcock in the South West. Over 60 sites in the area, including Devonport, the largest naval base in Western Europe. 

We want to create value for society at a local business level and contract level. Believing in the power of diverse perspectives and inclusive leadership. Recognising that we are all individually different and collectively distinctive, actively strives for continual progress in diversity and inclusion.