This November, the Princess Royal Training Awards will honour 52 recipients for their investment in training their people, resulting in exceptional organisational benefits. Read on for details of the companies celebrated this year and how to get involved in the 2025 awards.
The Princes Royal Training Awards, the ultimate symbol of excellence in learning and development (L&D), attract more and more organisations each year, eager to achieve this royal accolade.
Celebrating greatness
2024’s Award-winning recipients will receive their Awards from HRH The Princess Royal, President of the City and Guilds of London Institute at a high-profile ceremony in London. They will also be invited to join a community of over 600 like-minded professionals who share a commitment to investing in L&D. Previous winners have also reported on the transformative impact of the Awards. As precision engineering organisation and Award recipient EDM Zone Ltd explained: “We have won lots of awards in the apprenticeship realm, but we believe this one to be the pinnacle of apprenticeship awards. It’s the best you can get.”
In a recent Alumni survey*, 93% of organisations reported a boost in employee engagement and wellbeing due to investment in learning, 91% saw an increased ability to demonstrate the value of skills to their organisation’s social value and 84% expressed enhanced confidence in their organisation’s culture and training approach.
Excellence in manufacturing and engineering
The manufacturing and engineering sector has a strong history of participating in the Princess Royal Training Awards and 2024 is no exception, with an increase in both applications and Awards for the sector.
Achieving the standard in 2024 is steel producing company, Tata Steel, which achieved the Award in 2019 for its apprenticeship programme, and has maintained a strong focus on training and developing its people. The company identified that 30% of its workforce was aged over 50 and it has recruited 1,500 trainees onto programmes ranging from levels 2 to 7, successfully creating sustainable talent pipelines. The company receives 1,500 applications for the 200-300 apprenticeships it has available each year.
Also recognised is Bentley Motors, commended for its outstanding training programme. In 2020, the organisation aimed to become the world’s most sustainable luxury car brand. To adapt to the pandemic, they transformed their Retail Academy into a digital platform, doubling UK retailer engagement in training to nearly 16,000 participants and significantly reducing costs.
These organisations – along with Lotus Cars, Monnickendam Diamonds Ltd, Sharing in Growth UK Ltd, Tecniq Ltd and Xtrac – join the many manufacturing and engineering sector organisations celebrated for their training excellence over the years by these exceptional Awards.
Register for the 2025 Awards
This year, the Awards celebrate a decade of honouring training excellence. Organisations keen to be recognised for their dedication to training during this special year should register their interest on the Awards’ website.
The Awards are open to all organisations in the UK and Ireland, regardless of size or sector, are free to apply from start to finish, and applicants receive unrivalled support throughout the application process.
Applications open on 2 December 2024. For more information, contact the Princess Royal Training Awards team. Awards are open until 31 March 2025.
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*City & Guilds (2024), Impact Report 2024: The impact of skills on lives.
