Princess Royal Training Awards | City & Guilds Foundation

HRH The Princess Royal visits The Thames Skills Academy

by Lan Che | 31 May 2022 | Awards, Awards alumni, News, Princess Royal Training Awards

HRH The Princess Royal met members of The Thames Skills Academy (TSA) on 10 May, in a visit showcasing pioneering work to improve safety skills for everyone working on and beside the river. At the end of her tour at Butler’s Wharf, led by TSA’s CEO Katherine Riggs and board member Chris Livett, Her Royal Highness commented how impressed she has been at how much the organisation has achieved since it was created five years ago. Katherine Riggs said: “The Princess was extremely interested to...

48 UK organisations celebrate the Princess Royal Training Awards with HRH Princess Anne

by Lan Che | 29 Apr 2022 | Awards, Events, News, Princess Royal Training Awards

On Thursday 28th April, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, welcomed 48 organisations to Mansion House in London to celebrate them receiving Princess Royal Training Awards for their commitment to training and development in 2021. Currently in its sixth year, The Princess Royal Training Awards recognise and celebrate organisations across the United Kingdom which have demonstrated exceptional commitment to training and development. Despite facing unprecedented challenges due to...

Why The Master Innholders will be reapplying in the future

by Stuart Tucker | 20 Dec 2021 | Case studies, Princess Royal Training Awards

Programme Director Dr Hilary Cooke, talks about what sets the Princess Royal Training Awards apart from other award programmes. Hilary delivers training on behalf of The Master Innholders who achieved a Princess Royal Training Award in 2021.

What winning the Award means for Eyres Monsell primary school

by Stuart Tucker | 20 Dec 2021 | Case studies, Princess Royal Training Awards

Kerry Hill, headteacher at Eyres Monsell primary school, talks about what receiving a Princess Royal Training Award meant to them and how they are working at tackling mental health in the education sector.

What achieving an Award means for EDM Zone

by Stuart Tucker | 20 Dec 2021 | Awards alumni, Case studies, Princess Royal Training Awards

Production Manager and former apprentice Roger Wilson talks about how EDM Zone invest in apprentices and how achieving a Princess Royal Training Award in 2021 is having a positive impact on the business.

How IBM recruits a diverse workforce

by Stuart Tucker | 20 Dec 2021 | Awards alumni, Case studies, Princess Royal Training Awards

IBM Foundation Managers Joel Thomas and Kelly Markwick talk about how IBM are actively recruiting a diverse workforce. IBM achieved a Princess Royal Training Award in 2021.

What achieving an Award means for IBM

by Stuart Tucker | 14 Dec 2021 | Case studies, Princess Royal Training Awards

IBM Foundation Managers Joel Thomas and Kelly Markwick talk some of the benefits of achieving a 2021 Princess Royal Training Award for their intern programme.

UK businesses’ training is recognised by HRH The Princess Royal on her 70th birthday

by Stuart Tucker | 14 Aug 2020 | News, Princess Royal Training Awards

HRH The Princess Royal, President of City & Guilds Group, recognises organisations whose training has delivered measurable business impact Businesses continue to deliver excellent training programmes in the Princess Royal Training Award’s fifth year, despite the impact of Covid Recipients from a wealth of sectors including health and social care, manufacturing, public sector and technology all proved the value of investing in L&D to address a wide range of business needs. 14 August...

United by purpose – a letter to Princess Royal Training Awards applicants from Princess Anne

by Michael Osbaldeston | 22 May 2020 | News, Our networks, Princess Royal Training Awards

It’s fair to say, that no one alive has ever experienced a time like this. You have to go back to the post-WW1 flu, the cholera epidemics that would lead to modern sanitation, The Black Death and the great plagues. For all of us, it really is unprecedented, and it has led to us adopting working practices that would have been impossible not that long ago. In fact, before the advent of modern technology and the digital age, this would have been truly catastrophic. We simply wouldn’t have been...