People are Thakeham’s most important asset. The organisation operates a thriving graduate recruitment programme and supports the Movement to Work initiative to help young people secure work.

Thakeham is the first home builder in the South East to receive a Silver Award in The Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - an accolade which acknowledges its armed forces-friendly culture. The organisation are passionate about creating a diverse workforce and strongly encourage more women into the construction industry.

Employing over 200 people, the West Sussex company are committed to creating amazing places to live and work. It has become a developer with a difference since its launch in 2003, delivering social, affordable and retirement housing for some of the UK's biggest housing associations and local authorities.

Promoting sustainable development, Thakeham are a founding member of the HBF’s Future Homes Taskforce, the industry’s quest to become zero carbon, and the first UK Housebuilder to sign the UN’s SME Climate Hub ‘Race to Zero’ Campaign. In 2020, Thakeham launched a new crusade to become Carbon Neutral by 2025. Specifically, it pledged that every home will be zero carbon in lifetime operation; that each home built will be carbon neutral in production; and, Thakeham Group as a whole will also be zero carbon.