A
Wymondham-based management consultancy has won seven national and regional
awards so far this year, taking its total to 71 recognitions since the business
started in 2022 — 22 wins, 32 finalist places, seven shortlists, and ten
nominations.
Wingfield
Consultants, founded by Simon Wingfield, was named Best Management Consultancy
at the Altaris Business Awards 2026 and Business Consultants of the Year for
Norfolk at the International Elite 100 Awards 2026. Mr Wingfield was personally
named Regional Leader of the Year for Norfolk at the Business Awards UK 2026 and won the Positive Impact Champion Award at this year’s EPRA Awards.
The
firm is a Certified B Corporation — one of fewer than 3,000 in the UK — and
operates an unusual business model: 80 per cent of its work is for paying
clients, and the remaining 20 per cent is given free to local charities, social
enterprises, community organisations, and small businesses.
Judges
have returned to that pro bono commitment, branded Love Local, most often.
“The
awards matter because we did not judge them ourselves,” said Simon
Wingfield, Founder of Wingfield Consultants. “Independent judges looked at
the work and reached the same conclusion our clients had already reached. That
is the only kind of proof worth having.”
“But
the thing I am proudest of is the 20 per cent. We have stuck to it every year
since we started, through the lean months as well as the good ones. Doing good
is good business — not as a slogan, but as a model that has now been tested for
four years.”
The
consultancy works with small and medium-sized businesses, charities, social
enterprises, and public sector organisations across Norfolk and nationally.
Clients have included the RSPCA, the University of East Anglia, Hethel
Innovation, and the Broadland Food Innovation Centre.
Alongside
the wins, Wingfield Consultants has been shortlisted for Company of the Year at
the National Sustainability Awards 2026 and named a double finalist at the
Growing Business Awards 2026 — for the Positive Impact Award and for Growing
Business of the Year, East of England. Both results are announced on 26
November at the Hilton London Bankside.
Mr
Wingfield is also an Associate Tutor at Norwich Business School at the
University of East Anglia, a Non-Executive Director of Norfolk social
enterprise Rippleacts CIC, and a Foundation Norfolk Ambassador on the Norfolk
Business Board. He mentors across nine accredited platforms, most of it
voluntary.
“Norfolk
businesses do not always shout about themselves,” he added. “I would
rather the record spoke for us. Seventy-one times now, someone independent has
looked at what we do and said it stands up.”