Wymondham consultancy named among the UK’s best after seven award wins in a year
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 on a voluntary basis.
“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.”
