Eaglemat Insurance Brokers Ltd, an independent insurance brokerage headquartered in Leicester, has been named Business of the Year at the 2026 Zimbabwe Achievers Awards UK edition, held at the Birmingham Conference and Events Centre in May. The recognition, conferred in the Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation category, acknowledges the firm’s measurable growth, its professional standing within the United Kingdom insurance market, and its demonstrable impact across a competitive commercial landscape.
The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards, now entering its sixteenth year, has established itself as one of the more consequential platforms recognising excellence, innovation, and enterprise achievement among Zimbabweans in the diaspora and the wider international business community. The 2026 UK edition unfolded across two days, integrating a Diaspora Investment and Skills Forum with a formal gala awards ceremony, drawing together entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, and senior professionals. The attendance of Zimbabwe’s Minister of Youth, Tino Machakaire, lent the proceedings an institutional weight that signals the awards’ increasingly prominent role as a conduit between diaspora enterprise and national economic strategy. The 2026 edition also formalised a memorandum of understanding with the International Organisation for Migration, a United Nations agency, establishing structured frameworks around skills mobility, diaspora engagement, and development-oriented investment — a development that situates the awards within the broader architecture of African transnational economic policy rather than merely the register of ceremonial recognition.
Eaglemat Insurance Brokers is registered at Meridian Business Park in Leicester and operates as a specialist intermediary with a clearly delineated focus on the Health and Social Care sector across the United Kingdom. Its client portfolio is deliberately constructed to serve the full institutional breadth of care provision: residential and nursing homes, domiciliary care operators, supported living services, children’s services, GP surgeries, private hospitals, ambulance and patient transport providers, and healthcare recruitment agencies. Beyond the care sector, the firm also provides commercial cover across a range of industries and extends personal insurance solutions to individual clients.
Of particular commercial distinction is the firm’s capacity to support enterprises engaged in the importation of agricultural and mining produce from Africa into European markets. By arranging bespoke insurance protection for such trade flows, Eaglemat positions itself at an intersection that carries considerable strategic relevance: the deepening of structured commercial corridors between African producing economies and European consuming markets, and the risk management architecture that must underpin them if such trade is to achieve the scale and resilience that both sides require. The firm works with a panel of underwriters that includes Aviva, Markel, Dual, Zurich, AXA, Allianz, and RSA, enabling it to combine the pricing leverage and capacity access of major market relationships with the bespoke advisory character of an independent brokerage.
Speaking following the award ceremony, Operations Director Andrew Randle, who brings more than 35 years of experience within the UK insurance sector, dedicated the recognition to the firm’s stakeholder community in terms that reflected both professional humility and long-term commercial intent. “This award is dedicated to our stakeholders, especially our clients — present and prospective — whose support has shaped the firm’s journey. We remain committed to delivering exceptional service to our clients. We are grateful to our clients, partners, and employees whose hard work and loyalty have helped us attain this achievement. We remain committed to delivering personal service, expert advice, and genuine support when our clients need us most.”
Managing Director Dr Mathew Undenge framed the accolade as both a validation of the firm’s foundational philosophy and a strategic inflection point. “This accolade reflects our commitment to continued growth, delivering personal service and expert advice. It serves as a powerful springboard for building new partnerships, strengthening existing trust, and creating even greater value for our customers in the years ahead.”
Dr Undenge’s professional profile is, in its own right, a substantive institutional narrative. A Chartered Insurance Broker and Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute (FCII), he is also an Associate of the Insurance Institute of London (ACII). His academic qualifications span a doctorate in Insurance, a Master of Science in Risk Management awarded with Distinction, and a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing. His career arc traverses more than fifteen years in the UK insurance sector and encompasses prior engagements in banking at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, in higher education as a lecturer at the University of East London, and in healthcare — a multi-disciplinary formation that has materially informed Eaglemat’s cross-sectoral positioning. In 2018, whilst at Erskine Murray Insurance Brokers, Dr Undenge was awarded the Mellor Plate by the Insurance Institute of Leicester, a distinction presented annually to the individual achieving the highest national performance in completing the FCII Fellowship qualification. The plate, originally donated to the Insurance Institute of Leicester in 1970 by the Institute’s then President, remains among the more prestigious professional honours available to insurance practitioners in the United Kingdom, and one that only a select cohort of Fellows nationally has ever held.
The award to Eaglemat carries a resonance that extends beyond the professional into the structural. The firm was incorporated in May 2024; its recognition as Business of the Year within two years of formation speaks not merely to the quality of its execution but to a wider phenomenon that African policy analysts and diaspora economists have increasingly sought to document and elevate. Zimbabwean and broader African diaspora communities in the United Kingdom have, over two decades, assembled a body of enterprise that is at once professionally rigorous and institutionally underacknowledged. The Zimbabwe Achievers Awards, across its sixteen-year history, has functioned as a corrective to that invisibility — not through advocacy, but through the harder and more durable currency of demonstrated achievement. Eaglemat’s trajectory is, in that sense, representative: a firm founded with specialist intent, led by professionals whose credentials command respect in the most demanding forums of the UK insurance market, and now formally recognised as among the most impactful businesses to have emerged from within that community.
Eaglemat Insurance Brokers also expressed appreciation to the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards board for the recognition and extended congratulations to fellow nominees and winners celebrated during the ceremony
