Legal and General
A multinational financial services and asset management company headquartered in London, England. Its products and services include investment management, lifetime mortgages, pensions, annuities, and life assurance.
Years awarded: 2018, 2022
Region: South East
Size: 1000+ employees
Sector: Banking, insurance and finance
Boosting innovation and progression through promoting talent
Theme: Upskilling
Topics: Coaching and mentoring
Seeking to deliver outperformance through customer centric innovation, Legal and General introduced a talent development programme which won an Award in 2018. Through continued development, this programme is now offered to new areas of the business and has led to 34 promotions to Grades 4 and 5, saving external recruitment fees of over £240k.
Embedding training at all levels
Theme: Upskilling
Topics: Coaching and mentoring
This organisation created the Step Forward programme in response to a perceived lack of development opportunities for staff at lower grades. The programme, which focuses on providing a coaching culture, has become embedded in the organisation and is oversubscribed. Staff retention and promotion of attendees have also increased.
News and case studies featuring Legal and General:
Maintaining a robust process: A new generation of Ambassadors strengthening the Princess Royal Training Awards
This year the Princess Royal Training Awards celebrated their eleventh year, and the programme continued to go from strength to strength, with 132 applications received from organisations committed to delivering exceptional learning and development.
Delivered by the City & Guilds Foundation, the Awards remain a unique, evidence-based programme that recognises and celebrates the strategic impact of learning, development and training within organisations. Applicants must demonstrate excellence against three Hallmarks of Excellence, evidencing why training was chosen to address an organisational challenge, how it was implemented and the impact it had on both the organisation and its people.
Reflecting the increasingly global nature of workforces and training provision, this year we expanded their eligibility criteria to include organisations delivering training both within the UK and Ireland, and internationally. This development recognises the contribution of organisations with overseas operations that had previously been unable to participate.
Award-Winning Impact: How P Flannery’s Skills Bootcamps are tackling the construction skills gap and building an inclusive skills pipeline
When P Flannery Plant Hire received a Princess Royal Training Award in 2025, it recognised a bold, employer-led approach to tackling one of the construction industry’s most persistent challenges: a critical shortage of skilled plant operators. Through the...
Celebrating award-winning apprenticeships with The Princess Royal Training Award recipient, National Theatre
This week, Her Royal Highness visited the National Theatre to celebrate its pioneering apprenticeship programme, recognised with a 2024 Princess Royal Training Award (PRTA) and a special Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Commendation. The additional DEI...
How Liberty Kitchen is using skills to unlock potential and productivity
When Liberty Kitchen received a Princess Royal Training Awards in 2025, the recognition went beyond a training initiative. It provided a powerful example of how opening access to skills can support rehabilitation and create wider benefits for individuals,...
Celebrating community radio champions who are investing in skills, inclusion and opportunity
Across the UK, community radio stations play an extraordinary role — not just in broadcasting, but in transforming lives. On World Radio Day we wanted to spotlight four of the outstanding radio stations that have been recognised through our Princess Royal Training...
A decade of excellence: Royal recognition for UK and Irish organisations honoured at the Princess Royal Training Awards
The Princess Royal Training Awards are the UK and Ireland’s premier awards programme for recognising training excellence. On Tuesday 2 December, in an awards ceremony at Fishmongers Hall, the City & Guilds Foundation had the honour of recognising 56 outstanding...
HRH The Princess Royal celebrates best-in-class workplace training in 10th anniversary year for Awards
HRH The Princess Royal, President of the City and Guilds of London Institute, awards employers for outstanding training and skills development programmes which have positively impacted organisations, people and wider society. 15 August 2025: City & Guilds has...
HRH The Princess Royal discusses the importance of creating aspirations for young people
n this video series, Kirstie Donnelly MBE, Chief Executive of City & Guilds, talks with our president HRH The Princess Royal about the importance of skills on society, about the role we play as an organisation and about the Awards that we created in her name - The Princess Royal Training Awards - which are celebrating their tenth anniversary.
HRH The Princess Royal discusses the diverse range of Princess Royal Training Award organisations
In this video series, Kirstie Donnelly MBE, Chief Executive of City & Guilds, talks with our president HRH The Princess Royal about the importance of skills on society, about the role we play as an organisation and about the Awards that we created in her name - The Princess Royal Training Awards - which are celebrating their tenth anniversary.
HRH The Princess Royal discusses the value of City & Guilds to society
In this video series, Kirstie Donnelly MBE, Chief Executive of City & Guilds, talks with our president HRH The Princess Royal about the importance of skills on society, about the role we play as an organisation and about the Awards that we created in her name - The Princess Royal Training Awards - which are celebrating their tenth anniversary.