Eight companies commit to Destination Insurance Charter to become inaugural signatories

Eight businesses operating within the UK general insurance (UKGI) sector have become the first signatories of Insurance Times’ Destination Insurance Charter, visibly showcasing their commitment to mitigating commonly seen talent challenges experienced by market firms.

The Destination Insurance Charter, launched in October 2025, forms part of Insurance Times’ broader talent campaign – entitled Destination Insurance – which aims to support the UKGI industry to mitigate its unique talent challenges by instigating market-wide collaboration and being a prominent source of best practice information, ideas and insight.

Specifically, the Destination Insurance Charter contains five commitments that have been designed as an accountability framework for small and medium-sized firms and trade bodies operating in the UKGI, Lloyd’s and London markets, to help signatories create and maintain effective talent strategies.

The charter commitments ask firms whether their recruitment practices are fit for purpose, to engage with educational institutions, advocate inter-sector collaboration to promote insurance careers, analyse development pathways to ensure adequacy and effectiveness and confirm attendance to the Destination Insurance conference, which will now become an annual one-day event following its inaugural occurrence on 15 January 2026 at London’s The Minster Building.

Signatories to date

Delegates attending Insurance Times’ first Destination Insurance conference had the opportunity to sign a physical copy of the charter in-person, becoming the inaugural signatories.

These businesses are insurer Axa, trade association Biba, broker Clegg Gifford, insurer HDI Global, talent programme provider The Progress Partnership and broker Verlingue.

In the first week following the conference, two more firms reached out to Insurance Times to additionally become signatories, including law firm Carpenters Group and broker Weir Insurance.

Katie Scott, editor at Insurance Times, said: “For us, the Destination Insurance Charter has been designed to be an important and useful tool for businesses operating in the UKGI sector, seeking to support organisations with their talent strategies and processes.

“To have such a number of initial signatories across a broad spectrum of firm types is absolutely fantastic and really showcases the appetite in our marketplace to make changes and progress talent pipelines positively. This is exactly what we hoped for.

“Hopefully, word of the charter will spread far and wide – I actively encourage businesses operating in UKGI to get in touch with Insurance Times to become signatories.”

Speaking about the Destination Insurance Charter, Nicola Maguire, head of commercial at Biba, said: “A great piece of work and delighted to be one of the first signatories.”