A popular hotel and wedding venue has received double recognition at a prestigious awards ceremony. 

Brockencote Hall Hotel, which is part of The Eden Hotel Collection, won top prizes for employee health and wellbeing as well as employee engagement at the Springboard Awards for Excellence 2024. 

The top awards celebrate the UK and Ireland's industry superstars and saw 50 businesses shortlisted following a record 200 entries. 

Both hospitality award wins for The Eden Hotel Collection highlighted the organisation's money, mind, body and heart people strategy to enhance colleague wellbeing. 

The strategy has seen vacancy levels reduce by around 62 per cent across the group and the 90-day retention rate improve to 96.4 per cent. 

Jack Hartshorne, general manager at Brockencote Hall Hotel, said: "It's fantastic to see our hotel and the wider business recognised for making the organisation such a great place to work. 

"Being able to recognise people in different ways for doing a good job has been really well received by the team at Brockencote Hall Hotel and has created a great environment where people feel motivated and driven to support each other and uphold the highest standards of service."

Forming part of Eden's award entries was the introduction of a new reward and recognition programme, The Happy Hub, for staff to celebrate one another. 

Acting on survey feedback was also a core part of the winning entries. 

Lisa Redding, group people director at Eden Hotel Collection, said: "Our people, like many others across the UK, have had to deal with a pandemic and a cost-of-living crisis in quick succession. 

"As a business, our priority has been to provide meaningful support to our people based on their feedback. 

"We want our teams to feel like they can be the best version of themselves both at work and at home."

This year's award wins mark two consecutive years of success at The Springboard Awards for Excellence for The Eden Hotel Collection having previously scooped the Best Training Programme award. 

Mark Chambers, managing director at The Eden Hotel Collection, added: "The award wins underline the business's dedication to creating an environment where our teams feel valued, motivated and have opportunities to develop and grow both personally and professionally. 

"We want our hotels to exemplify all that is good about working in a hospitality sector that has had various challenges with recruitment and retention. 

"To see our own staff retention levels at a record high is fantastic and vindicates the people first culture we have created which will help to drive the business's future growth."