Celebrate impact.
Reward excellence.
Free to enter the Awards are open to all UK employers who can show how investing in training has directly improved their people and organisational performance.
Register your interest
The Princess Royal Training Awards
Training is at the core of every successful business. It allows you to recruit better staff, retain quality colleagues and future proof your talent pipeline.
It’s the investment that offers a return time and time again.
We are delighted to offer this prestigious award, in line with the City & Guilds values, to employers in the UK who can prove that their outstanding training and skills development programmes have resulted in exceptional benefits for their business.
See the video from the 2019 Award ceremony
About the awards
The result is an award that highlights the range and quality of training that exists in industry.
How to apply
Find out how to structure your application and what types of evidence to supply.
2021 recipients
Be inspired by the work of a community of professionals who invest in their most valuable asset – their people.
See more details about the organisations who received the standard as well as in-depth case studies from previous winners.
Who can enter?
The awards are open to all organisations in the UK regardless of size and sector and are free to enter.
More than one application may be submitted for an organisation if it has introduced multiple training initiatives. Each training initiative must have resulted in different benefits for the business.
You can apply to revalidate your programme if it’s been three years or longer since you achieved the Award. Find out more about how to get revalidated.
Read more about the application process.
Recipient stories
The benefits of gaining a Princess Royal Training Award for a small business like us have been massive. It’s given us a sense of kudos and shown that we have longevity within the business and it’s given us a greater gravitas within the industry.
We are so delighted to be awarded a Princess Royal Training Award for our UK Apprenticeship programme. The assessment process was rigorous, yet rewarding as the assessment team really took the time to understand our business as well as the value our apprenticeships have brought.
Register your interest
Register your interest and we will be in touch once the applications open.
Upcoming events
We are really pleased to have been recognised with the Princess Royal Training Award for our flagship ‘Basic Training Scheme’ known affectionately as BTS. Learning and development is vital to remaining agile in a highly competitive market. Hilti invests over £1.3 million each year in training employees to support our Champion 2020 growth strategy.
Part of the success of Green Lighting’s training programme is the flexibility it offers to employees. The organisation tailors CPD plans to expand employee’s skills, developing expertise that will benefit them in their existing roles and allowing them to diversify into another areas of the business based on individual’s longer-term career ambitions.
The Awards on social media
The 2022 #PrincessRoyalTrainingAwards will be revealed this month! ✨
Look out for our announcement on 15 August to find out which organisations have achieved royal recognition for their learning and development programmes.
As we conclude #Pride celebrations, our Foundation Team shares how our networks have been celebrating LGBTQ+ inclusion.
We spoke with our #PrincessRoyalTrainingAwards alumni, @NatWestGroup & @santanderuk about their great work to support LGBTQ+ staff.
http://ow.ly/qvWZ50JNmx6
We are delighted to have received 91 applications for this year's #PrincessRoyalTrainingAwards and have seen 48 organisations progress to the second stage of the assessment process.
A huge thank you to all applicants!
.@xtraclimited welcomed HRH The Princess Royal at their headquarters in Berkshire.
Princess Anne visited recipients of her #PrincessRoyalTrainingAwards, assessed by the @cityandguilds Group she serves as president. Find out about her visit:
https://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/content/news/hrh-the-princess-royal-visits-xtrac-academy
About the awards
Learn more about the origins of the awards programme and who the team of assessors are.
