HRH The Princess Royal | City & Guilds Foundation

Skills Share 2024: a room full of training royalty

by Polly Rowe | 15 May 2024 | Awards, Awards alumni, Charity partners, City & Guilds initiatives, News, News & events, Our networks, Princess Royal Training Awards

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 (for some up to seven times for different award programmes!). We were delighted that The President of the City & Guilds of London Institute, HRH The Princess Royal was also able to join us and share her own valuable insights of the Awards – that are in her...

Celebrating the very best training and development programmes in the UK and Ireland

by Lan Che | 27 Nov 2023 | Awards, News, News & events, Princess Royal Training Awards

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.

53 Princess Royal Training Awards across UK and Ireland for achieving positive impact through skills development

by Lan Che | 15 Aug 2023 | Awards alumni, News, Princess Royal Training Awards

Now in its eighth year, The Princess Royal Training Awards continue to honour organisations showing exceptional commitment to learning and development. Among this year’s 53 award-winning recipients, are a mix of small not-for-profit organisations and large multinationals, each showcasing a refreshing display of diverse and innovative approaches to learning and development.

Reflecting on our achievements in 2022

by Justine Procter | 14 Dec 2022 | Bursaries, Charity partners, City & Guilds initiatives, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Funding, Lived Experience, News, Our networks, Princess Royal Training Awards, Prisoners and ex-offenders, Refugee support, Resources, Responsible Business, Social Impact, Youth engagement

As the end of 2022 fast approaches, the team at the City & Guilds Foundation took some time to reflect and share their top highlights and achievements from the last year and moments to be proud of. Laura Mountain “Thinking about what we’ve collectively achieved over the past year, it is really incredible and just goes to show what you can do with brilliant, passionate people who constantly pull together – and challenge each other – to do the best they can. A particular highlight for me has...

Demonstrating the impact of outstanding training with The Princess Royal Training Awards class of 2022

by Mike Ormand | 9 Dec 2022 | Awards alumni, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Events, News, Princess Royal Training Awards

This year 46 organisations came together at London’s Banqueting House on Tuesday 6th December to be personally congratulated on stage by HRH The Princess Royal, alongside Chief Executive of City & Guilds, Kirstie Donnelly MBE and Chair of City & Guilds, Dame Ann Limb.

Celebrating 46 UK organisations who have outstanding workplace training programmes with HRH The Princess Royal

by Lan Che | 8 Dec 2022 | News, Princess Royal Training Awards

On Tuesday 6th December, Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal, welcomed 46 organisations to Banqueting House in London to celebrate successfully achieving a Princess Royal Training Award for their commitment to training and development.

HRH The Princess Royal visits Xtrac Academy

by Lan Che | 13 Jun 2022 | Awards, Awards alumni, News, Princess Royal Training Awards

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal’s visit to meet recipients of her eponymous Princess Royal Training Award, assessed by City & Guilds she serves as president, was accommodated by the motorsport & automotive transmission technology specialist Xtrac at its global headquarters in Thatcham, in the Royal County of Berkshire, on Wednesday 11 May 2022. The visit followed the presentation of the 2021 award to 46 businesses at a special ceremony on Thursday 28 April, at the...

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...

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...