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The latest news from the Princess Royal Training Awards and our award recipients.
Celebrating 10 years of awarding excellence
This year City & Guilds celebrates 10 years of the Princess Royal Training Awards. The Princess Royal Training Awards were created in 2016 to recognise and reward organisations demonstrating exceptional best practice in workplace training and skills...
Case study: OnSide Youth Zones
Hear about Princess Royal Training Award recipients OnSide and their award-winning youth centres in this video.
Case study: Pret A Manger
Hear about Princess Royal Training Award recipients Pret A Manger and their award-winning Pret Academy in this video.
Case study: The Dean Hotel Group and Fifty Shades Greener, our first recipients from Ireland
In this video hear about Princess Royal Training Award recipients The Dean Hotel and Fifty Shades Greener, our first recipients from Ireland.
Highlights from the 2024 Princess Royal Training Awards Ceremony
We've captured the key moments of the Princess Royal Training Awards ceremony on 21 November 2024. Have a peek inside Goldsmiths' Hall in London as we celebrate the 2024 recipients in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal.
Foundation & Friends Podcast: Exploring Innovative Training Solutions with HX Expeditions
This conversation explores the significance of the Princess Royal Training Awards, focusing on HX Expeditions and their innovative training program designed for expedition guides to ensure safety in polar bear territories. Jim Mayer, the Expedition Team Training Manager, discusses the evolution of their training methods, the impact on guides and guests, and future developments in their training initiatives.
Royal recognition for employers who invest in training and development in the UK and Ireland
On Thursday 21 November, 52 recipients from the UK and Ireland were recognised by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal through the Princess Royal Training Awards held at Goldsmiths’ Hall in London. Over the past nine years, The Princess Royal Training...
52 organisations receive royal recognition for tremendous training and incredible impact in 2024
15 August 2024: City & Guilds has today announced the 52 training programmes that will be recognised by the 2024 Princess Royal Training Awards. Now in its ninth year, The Princess Royal Training Awards continue to recognise organisations who demonstrate...
Skills Share 2024: a room full of training royalty
On 1 May 2024 we launched our first ever Skills Share event at Guildhall, London. This was a space to network and learn from the 200+ organisations who have successfully achieved a Princess Royal Training Award over the past nine years.
Case study: prioritising talent to open up opportunities to women at Amey
This leading infrastructure services and engineering company identified the Women@Amey network to attract and retain women in a male-dominated industry. Amey PlcYear awarded 2023Region LondonSize 1000+ employeesSector Construction and engineering“A great...
Case study: home-growing future managers through exceptional training opportunities at Red Carnation Hotels
This collection of family-run hotels achieved an Award in 2017 and went on to gain a revalidation in 2020. Since then it has further developed its Graduate Management programme with 53 participants commencing the training in the 3 years following, leading to the...
Case Study: using training to benefit people and the planet at Fifty Shades Greener
This small company which educates organisations on how to reduce their carbon footprint through changing their behaviours showcases its own commitment to learning through its tailored employee induction programme. Green Skills for Life is central to the training,...
Case study: the meaningful impact of receiving an Award on MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
In this video, Amy Atkins from 2022 recipient MOLA, talks about the meaningful impact of receiving a Princess Royal Training Award.
Celebrating the very best training and development programmes in the UK and Ireland
Last week, 53 recipients from the UK and Ireland were warmly welcomed to St James’s Palace, in London, to receive their Princess Royal Training Award from Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal. Now in their eighth year, the Princess Royal Training Awards were set...
Celebrating the impact of learning and development
At the heart of City & Guilds is our purpose which has skills development deep rooted in it. And through the Foundation one of our jobs is to celebrate where really great skills development is happening, and an example of how we do that is our Princess Royal Training Award programme.
Princess Royal Training Awards 2023 Recipients: in the press
Here is a roundup of the media coverage following the announcement of the 2023 Princess Royal Training Awards recipients. National news FE News:...
53 Princess Royal Training Awards across UK and Ireland for achieving positive impact through skills development
HRH The Princess Royal, President of the City and Guilds of London Institute, has approved 53 Awards to a range of organisations across the UK and Ireland, for their outstanding training and skills development programmes, all of which have shown a significant...
Belfast Met: The Ripple Effect of receiving a Princess Royal Training Award
Rebecca Roberts shares how achieving an award helped move Health and Wellbeing higher up Belfast Met's agenda.
