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The latest news from the Princess Royal Training Awards and our award recipients.
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.
HRH The Princess Royal discusses the changing world of skills
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.
A decade of excellence and a room full of inspiration – Princess Royal Training Awards Skills Share 2025
On 30 April 2025, City & Guilds hosted its second-ever Skills Share event – this time at the stunning Goldsmiths’ Hall in London – marking a major milestone: 10 years of the Princess Royal Training Awards. With over 130 Award recipients in attendance, the event was not just a celebration but a forum for shared learning, inspiration and reflection on what a decade of investment in skills development really means.
Ten Years of the Princess Royal Training Awards
In the tenth year of the Princess Royal Training Awards we take a look back at some of the recipients including Balfour Beatty, Fifty Shades Greener and Pret A Manger to find out what achieving the standard means to them and their organisations.
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...