Big Logistics Diversity Challenge 2025 promotes benefits of diversity and inclusion

Physical, mental and skill-based challenges await teams taking part in The Big Logistics Diversity Challenge 2025.

Back for its sixth year, The Big Logistics Diversity Challenge (BLDC) is designed to promote the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion across the logistics industry and the business benefits attained when companies improve diversity.

The event takes place on June 26 at Newark Showground, Nottinghamshire, and is supported by Fleet News as a media partner. It will bring together more than 400 logistics professionals to participate in a series of fun physical, practical and mental team challenges as well as look at how the industry can collaborate to tackle diversity. Interested companies can enter here.

Participants are encouraged to share best practice, network, team build and help shape what the profession should do next to support a more inclusive sector.

Returning participant Tia Benaim (pictured below) is a veteran of the Big Logistics Diversity Challenge having attended for the past three years.

The logistics degree apprentice for Coca-Cola Europacific Partners said: “Initially the company had entered the event in 2021 and received beaming feedback from everyone. The buzz you get for days after - that gets brought back into the workplace - is so present that we have to keep going back.

“I have now taken on the responsibility of getting a team together each year and, as word spreads, I have more and more people coming to me wanting to join in.”

Launched in 2019 and organised by multi-media marketing Nimble Media Ltd, BLDC has become a key fixture in the industry’s calendar, promoting promote the importance of equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) across the logistics and warehousing sector.

The event is promoted as a cross between It’s a Knockout and The Krypton Factor. The focus is on creating a day which provides an opportunity for organisations to share best practice, network and help shape a more inclusive sector, while delivering a serious message in a fun and entertaining way to engage teams and companies.

The sixth BLDC will offer new challenges, inspirational key speakers and continue to encourage logistics and warehousing professionals to come together and tackle diversity collaboratively and collectively, with participants in diverse and gender-balanced teams going head-to-head.

“I am in quite a diverse team at work in terms of age, ethnicity and background, and it’s all these different things that make us ‘us’ and able to share our experiences and teach one another as colleagues and peers. Diversity is essential for team efficiency and productivity,” Benaim added.

“It creates an environment where everyone gets opportunities, and builds a culture where people feel welcome to offer ideas and collaborate with one another, knowing they will be listened to.

“The BLDC makes you reflect on what we do as individuals to embrace diversity, and whether we can do it better – to make our industry more inclusive. It’s a unique way of delivering the message.

“It gives you a real appreciation of where you are and why you’re lucky to be in an inclusive industry and workplace, while realising there’s still more we can do, whatever our level or team. It puts diversity at the forefront and shows how small contributions can make a big change.”