Rewarding
training.
Recognising
your people.
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.
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.
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.
2022 recipients
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
Princess Royal Training Awards Ceremony 2022
Princess Royal Training Awards Ceremony 2022
Recipients of the Princess Royal Training Awards 2022 are invited to celebrate their acheivement in the presence of our President, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, in a ceremony at
Tea & Chat with the Team: 11 January 2023
Tea & Chat with the Team: 11 January 2023
This virtual drop-in session will give you the chance to chat or go through any questions with members of the Awards team.
Princess Royal Training Awards 2023 Support Workshop: January 2023
Princess Royal Training Awards 2023 Support Workshop: January 2023
This virtual support workshop will feature top tips from Assessors to help you to apply for the Princess Royal Training Awards in 2023.
Tea & Chat with the Team: 25 January 2023
Tea & Chat with the Team: 25 January 2023
This virtual drop-in session will give you the chance to chat or go through any questions with members of the Awards team.
Revalidation Tea & Chat: 1 February 2023
Revalidation Tea & Chat: 1 February 2023
This virtual drop-in session will give you the chance to chat or go through any questions about Revalidation with members of the Awards team.
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
In the run up to this year’s #PrincessRoyalTrainingAwards ceremony, we’re celebrating @TP_plc, a trailblazer for the Learn and Earn Apprenticeship Scheme in the construction sector. Find out how they’re tackling diversity challenges in the industry here: https://www.princessroyaltrainingawards.com/project/travis-perkins-plc/
In the run up to this year’s #PrincessRoyalTrainingAwards ceremony, we’re celebrating @OnSideYZ - who’ve tackled a depleting pool of talent in senior leadership in the youth work sector by growing their own.
Find out how they’ve hit 89% retention rates: https://www.princessroyaltrainingawards.com/project/onside/
In the run up to this year’s #PrincessRoyalTrainingAwards ceremony we’re celebrating @CoxLondon, who are leading the way in heritage crafts training despite significant adversity.
Find out how they achieved an 83% training programme retention rate: https://www.princessroyaltrainingawards.com/project/cox-london/
About the awards
Learn more about the origins of the awards programme and who the team of assessors are.
