Written by Fanny Di Domenicantonio, Director, Fox & Cubs Nanny & Private Staff Agency
Fox & Cubs has been named a finalist in the Women in HR Recruitment Award category at the Women’s Business Awards 2025, a recognition that reflects the standard we hold ourselves to across every placement we make.
The Women’s Business Awards celebrate the achievements of women in business across a wide range of industries and disciplines. Being shortlisted in the HR & Recruitment category is a recognition that reflects not just what Fox & Cubs does, but how we do it, with rigour, care, and a genuine commitment to the people on both sides of every placement.
What this recognition reflects
Recruitment is often misunderstood as a transactional industry. At Fox & Cubs, we have always believed it is anything but. Every placement we make involves two sets of people whose lives will be genuinely affected by the outcome: the family who is trusting us with the most important role in their home, and the professional whose career and daily life depends on the quality of the match we make.
Getting that right takes expertise, patience, and a standard that does not shift under pressure. It also takes the kind of leadership that prioritises long-term relationships over short-term results. Being recognised in a category that celebrates women shaping the future of HR and recruitment is a reflection of that approach.
Being shortlisted for the Women in HR recruitment award is an acknowledgement that the way Fox & Cubs approaches recruitment genuinely stands out.
What it means to lead a recruitment business as a woman
Building Fox & Cubs has never been about scaling quickly or chasing volume. It has been about building something worth trusting, one placement at a time, with a team that shares the same values and a process that never cuts corners regardless of how much pressure is involved.
As a woman leading a recruitment business in a sector that is still finding its professional identity, the Women’s Business Awards matter because they shine a light on the kind of leadership that does not always make the most noise. The leadership that shows up consistently, invests in its people, and measures success by the quality of the outcomes it creates rather than the quantity.
At Fox & Cubs, that means investing in the candidate experience as much as the client experience. It means turning down placements that are not right rather than filling them for the sake of a fee. It means building a team of seven people who are genuinely invested in the families and professionals they work with, and who bring that investment to every brief, every introduction, and every follow-up call.
That is what this recognition reflects, and it is what we will keep building on.
Building a business around genuine service
Fox & Cubs was founded on a simple belief: that families deserve better than a transactional staffing process, and that childcare and household professionals deserve better than being treated as a database to draw from.
Five years of building on that belief have produced an agency that families return to, that candidates recommend to their peers, and that partners trust with their most discerning clients. The Women’s Business Awards 2025 finalist recognition sits alongside a broader picture of what Fox & Cubs has become, an agency recognised across multiple dimensions for the quality, integrity and genuine care it brings to everything it does.
A year of recognition
2025 and 2026 have been remarkable years for Fox & Cubs. Alongside this Women’s Business Awards recognition, Fox & Cubs was voted Best Nanny Agency in the UK at the UK Nanny Awards 2026, won Best Small Recruitment Business at the Global Recruiter UK Industry Awards 2026, and was named a Finalist at the British HR Awards 2026.
Each recognition comes from a different direction. Together, they reflect an agency that is performing at the highest level across every dimension of what it does, for clients, for candidates, and for its own people.
Thank You
To our team, our families, our candidates, and our partners, thank you. Every piece of recognition Fox & Cubs receives belongs to the people who make it what it is.
If you are looking for a nanny agency in London that takes the time to get it right, we would love to hear from you. Get in touch with the Fox & Cubs team today.
About Fox & Cubs
Fox & Cubs Nanny & Private Staff Agency supports families in London and internationally with carefully vetted childcare and household professionals. With a personalised approach and deep understanding of family life, the agency helps households find reliable long-term support. In 2026, Fox & Cubs was voted Best Nanny Agency in the UK at the UK Nanny Awards, voted for by families, nannies, and childcare professionals.
Get in touch with the Fox & Cubs team today or connect with Fanny on LinkedIn.
