Fellowships

Candidates must exemplify excellence by embodying our core values and Fellowship is bestowed upon leaders and innovators who have had an impact on their industry or in education.

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​In 1892, the City and Guilds of London Institute established Fellowship to honour the historical connection to Imperial College London and the professional accomplishments of its graduates. Nominations are welcome from both Imperial College and City & Guilds.

Today, Fellows are from a wide range of industries from around the world. To be considered for Fellowship, candidates must exemplify excellence by embodying our core values and Fellowship is bestowed upon leaders and innovators who have had an impact on their industry or in education. Fellows help to contribute to our success by acting as ambassadors and offering their knowledge and expertise.

To be considered for Fellowship, your nominee should have skills and knowledge in one of our areas of strategic focus and have made a significant impact:

Skills and experience

Nominees should possess knowledge, influence and expertise that is current and relevant to City & Guilds and its purpose: helping people, organisations and economies develop skills for growth.

Supporting our purpose

The individual should be willing to be an active supporter of the purpose, values and business strategy of City & Guilds and be capable of being a practical asset in helping us deliver our purpose in the future.

Status and profile

Nominees should have achieved significant professional status and made an impact in an area relevant to City & Guilds and enjoy a high profile in their given field in the UK and / or internationally.

Nomination Form

Potential Fellows can be identified and nominated for consideration to the City & Guilds Foundation Committee to then be presented to Council for conferral.

Fellowship of the City and Guilds of London Institute (FCGI) is a prestigious honour, recognising individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional and personal achievements in skills development and workplace training.

The nomination form has been created to be as simple as possible whilst allowing us to paint an accurate picture of your nominee and why they should be awarded Fellowship.

There are 3 steps to the nomination process:

Step 1

Complete the nomination with information about your nominee

Step 2

Nominations received are assessed by the City & Guilds Foundation Committee

Step 3

Once approved, they are then ratified and conferred by the City & Guilds Council

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Frequently Asked Questions

Not found what you were looking for? Check our FAQs below to find the answer.

How do I register?

  1. Go to the City & Guilds Applications and Nominations Platform
  2. Click Register
  3. Choose to register to SurveyMonkey Apply (recommended) or using a Social Media Account (this will redirect you to the social media platform to complete your registration)
  4. Click Create Account
  5. You will then receive an email asking to verify your account, click Confirm email address within this email

How do I reset my Password?

  1. Go to the City & Guilds Applications and Nominations Platform
  2. Click Log In
  3. Underneath the Email/Password fields, click “Forgot your password?“
  4. Enter the email address that you use to login to the site
  5. Click Send Instructions
  6. You will be sent instructions to the email you entered to reset your password. If you aren’t to locate the email in your inbox, we recommend checking your Spam/Junk folder
  7. Click on the link within the email
  8. Enter a new password and confirm the password
  9. Click Reset Password

Why am I not receiving any emails from the site?

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  5. Depending on the email(s) you’re expecting to receive, reach out to the administrators to ensure that an email was sent out.

How do I create a new nomination?

  1. Click View Programmes
  2. Find Fellowships (note that at certain times of the year, other awards programmes will show here) and select MORE >
  3. Click Apply

Introduction

The City & Guilds Group is committed to data security and the fair and transparent processing of personal data. This privacy policy (Policy) sets out how we will treat the personal data which you provide to us in compliance with applicable data protection law, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR).

Please read this Policy carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal data, your rights in relation to your personal data, how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event that you would like to report a concern about the way in which we process your data.

Who are we?

The City and Guilds of London Institute is a charity incorporated by Royal Charter, with registered charity number 312832 (England and Wales) and SC039576 (Scotland) (City & Guilds). Our registered address is Giltspur Street, 5-6 Giltspur Street, London EC1A 9DE.

For the purposes of the GDPR, City & Guilds is the ‘controller’ of the personal data you provide to us or one of our associated companies (together the City & Guilds Group).

If you have any queries about this Policy, the way in which City & Guilds processes personal data, or about exercising any of your rights, please send an email to gdpr@cityandguilds.com or write to Data Protection, City & Guilds, Giltspur Street, 5-6 Giltspur Street, London EC1A 9DE.

City & Guilds collects the data of its bursary applicants. This Policy, any other documents referred to in it, sets out the basis on which City & Guilds processes personal data.

What personal data do we collect?

We may collect and process the following personal data:

Information you provide to us:

  • Name
  • Age range
  • Course and centre name / location
  • Address
  • Email address
  • Telephone number
  • Sex/Gender Identity
  • Sexuality
  • Ethnicity
  • Employment status
  • Qualification level
  • Information about your income, expenditure, debt and savings
  • Career interests
  • Your skills and experience
  • Your professional development goals
  • Disability information/any adjustments/learning difficulties
  • Equal opportunity monitoring information

Information we collect about you

If you visit our website, we may automatically collect the following information:

  • technical information, including the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
  • information about your visit to our website such as the products and/or services you searched for and view, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page;
  • any phone number used to call our customer service number.

Information we receive from other sources

We may also receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide.

We may also receive information about you from your education provider when they register to receive products and/or services from us.

Information about other people

If you provide information to us about any person other than yourself, such as your relatives and next of kin, you must ensure that they understand how their information will be used, and that they have given their permission for you to disclose it to us and for you to allow us, and our outsourced service providers, to use it.

Sensitive personal data

In certain limited cases, we may collect certain sensitive personal data from you such as information about your physical or mental health of condition, to enable us to administer requests for reasonable adjustments or sensitive personal data or racial/ethnic origin in order for us to be able to monitor our bursary scheme. However, we will only do so on the basis of your explicit consent.

How do we use your personal data?

We may use your personal data where this is necessary to pursue our legitimate interests as a provider of bursaries including to:

  • send you evaluation forms to collect data about your post-qualification career progression
  • contact you about opportunities to share your experience as a bursary case study or speaker

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on the basis of legitimate interests as set out below, under the heading Your rights.

We may also process your personal data if required by law, including responding to requests by government or law enforcement authorities, or for the prevention of crime or fraud.

Who do we share your personal data with?

We may share your personal data with members of the City & Guilds Group. You can read more about our group companies at www.cityandguilds.com. We take all reasonable steps to ensure that our staff protect your personal data and are aware of their information security obligations. We limit access to your personal data to those who have a genuine business need to know it.

We will ensure there is a contract in place with the categories of recipients listed above which include obligations in relation to the confidentiality, security, and lawful processing of any personal data shared with them.

Where a third party recipients is located outside the European Economic Area, we will ensure that the transfer of personal data will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission where the data protection authority does not believe that the third country has adequate data protection laws.

We will share personal data with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.

How long will you keep your personal data?

We will retain personal data relating to your bursary application at the City & Guilds group following the outcome of your application for 10 years following your application.

Where do we store your personal data and how is it protected?

We take reasonable steps to protect your personal data from loss or destruction. We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

Where you have a username or password (or other identification information) which enables you to access certain services or parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal data, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Your rights

Under the GDPR, you have various rights with respect to our use of your personal data:

Right to Access

You have the right to request a copy of the personal data that we hold about you by contacting us at the email or postal address given below. Please include with your request information that will enable us to verify your identity. We will respond with 30 days of request. Please note that there are exceptions to this right. We may be unable to make all information available to you if, for example, making the information available to you would reveal personal data about another person, if we are legally prevented from disclosing such information. Or if your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive.

Right to rectification

We aim to keep your personal data accurate and complete. We encourage you to contact us using the contact details provided below to let us know if any of your personal data is not accurate or changes, so that we can keep your personal data up-to-date.

Right to erasure

You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data where, for example, the personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected, where you withdraw your consent to processing, where there is no overriding legitimate interest for us to continue to process your personal data, or your personal data has been unlawfully processed. If you would like to request that your personal data is erased, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

Right to object

In certain circumstances, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data where, for example, your personal data is being processed on the basis of legitimate interests and there is no overriding legitimate interest for us to continue to process your personal data, or if your data is being processed for direct marketing purposes. If you would like to object to the processing of your personal data, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

Right to restrict processing

In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that we restrict the further processing of your personal data. This right arises where, for example, you have queried the accuracy of the personal data we hold about you and we are verifying the information, you have objected to processing based on legitimate interests and we are considering whether there are any overriding legitimate interests, or the processing is unlawful and you elect that processing is restricted rather than deleted. Please contact us using the contact details provided below.

Right to data portability

In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that some of your personal data is provided to you, or to another data controller, in a commonly used, machine-readable format. This right arises where you have provided your personal data to us, the processing is based on consent or the performance of a contract, and processing is carried out by automated means. If you would like to request that your personal data is ported to you, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

Please note that the GDPR sets out exceptions to these rights. If we are unable to comply with your request due to an exception we will explain this to you in our response.

Contact

If you have any queries about this Policy, the way in which City & Guilds processes personal data, or about exercising any of your rights, please send an email to gdpr@cityandguilds.com or write to Data Protection, City & Guilds, Giltspur House, 5-6 Giltspur Street, London EC1A 9DE.

Complaints

If you believe that your data protection rights may have been breached, and we have been unable to resolve your concern, you may lodge a complaint the applicable supervisory authority or to seek a remedy through the courts. Please visit https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ for more information on how to report a concern to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office.

Changes to our Policy

Any changes we may make to our Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Policy.

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