THE ONE AWARD

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FROM THE CROWD

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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 Group values, to employers in the UK who can prove that their outstanding training and skills development programmes have resulted in exceptional commercial benefits for their business.

About the awards

Honouring and celebrating employers who believe and can prove that investing in training their staff has resulted in exceptional commercial benefits for their business.

The result is an award that highlights the range and quality of training that exists in industry.

About the awards >

How to apply

To be considered for a Princess Royal Training Award you need to fill in an application and provide evidence of how training has positively impacted on your business.

Find out how to structure your application and what types of evidence to supply.

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Community of Excellence

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.

Community of Excellence >

Case studies

Apprenticeship in Hospitality Scotland

Apprenticeship in Hospitality Scotland
GSK

GSK
Islamic Relief

Islamic Relief
Mortgage Advice Bureau Scotland

Mortgage Advice Bureau Scotland
Openreach

Openreach
Barclays

Barclays
Energus nucleargraduates

Energus nucleargraduates
George

George
HMRC – Surge and Rapid Response Team

HMRC – Surge and Rapid Response Team
Macmillan Caring Locally

Macmillan Caring Locally
MWR InfoSecurity

MWR InfoSecurity
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust

North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Royal Bank of Scotland

Royal Bank of Scotland
Dale Power Solutions

Dale Power Solutions
The Donkey Sanctuary

The Donkey Sanctuary
East of England Co-operative

East of England Co-operative
Green Lighting

Green Lighting
Home Instead Senior Care

Home Instead Senior Care
Mercedes Benz Trucks UK

Mercedes Benz Trucks UK
National Museums Northern Ireland

National Museums Northern Ireland
Ricoh UK

Ricoh UK
University of York

University of York

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.

Register your interest

Register your interest and we will be in touch once the applications open.

Register your interest now

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.

Jane Oakes

Green Lighting

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.

Lisa Robbins

Starbucks

Help with your application

Telephone support

We offer one-on-one telephone support with a member of our team to help you complete your application.

Workshops

Our free workshops offer practical help and support to anyone thinking of applying for a Princess Royal Training Award.

Webinars

We run a series of half-hour webinars to help applicants with their applications. Each webinar features members of our team as well as an assessor who is on hand to answer questions.

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.

Laura Stringer

Hilti

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.

Anthony Ottoway

Green Lighting

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