Boardroom inertia? is the second annual research report from Company Matters, Link Group’s company secretarial team, and looks at the diversity of FTSE Small Cap and AIM listed company boards.

Thanks to their size, and in many cases global reach, the top FTSE 350 listed companies in the UK tend to dominate attention in the diversity debate. But they are not fully representative of UK corporate culture. Indeed, there are more than a thousand smaller listed companies on the main market and AIM indices and tens of thousands of private companies spread all over
the country in every industry imaginable. They employ far more people between them than the top FTSE 350 companies and tend to be more domestically focused. This means they reflect UK company leadership and the lived experience of the UK workforce much more than their very large, often global, counterparts. This new report looks at the current state of play and uncovers the latest trends.