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South East celebrates National Training Award winners

Five organisations from the South East have won National Training Awards. The winners were presented with a golden invitation to the UK gala ceremony on 14th December at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London, where they will receive their trophies.

GMTV presenter and former British tennis number one, Andrew Castle made the presentations at a ceremony held earlier this month at the HG Wells Conference Centre in Woking.

A further eleven organisations received South East Training Awards at the event while nine Highly Commended awards were also given out.

The National Training Award winners from the South East were:

• P&O Ferries, Dover
• Polestar UK Print Limited, Milton Keynes (for its entry: 'Innovative, interactive training programme for the print industry')
• Team-Teach Ltd, Twyford
• Inglewood Nursing Homes Limited, Eastbourne, in partnership with Baldwin Training Centre
• Prime Care Community Services Limited, Seaford

The South East Training Award winners comprised:

• Timely Intervention Limited, Bracknell, in partnership with Creative Learning Media, Hambridge, and Whitbread
• NVQ UK in partnership with Bupa Care Homes
• Riverside Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight
• Cordie Ltd, Lymington, in partnership with Rok Property Solutions, Crawley
• B&Q, Eastleigh
• Augmenta Limited, Leatherhead, in partnership with SGB Group, Leatherhead
• Ralph Trustees Limited, Egham
• In Place Training Ltd, Guildford, in partnership with the following consortium of west London companies: Gazebo Fine
• Foods, La Fornaia, Raj Foods, Mediterranean Foods (London), Maison Blanc and McVities (United Biscuits)
• Westridge Construction Ltd, Bodiam
• Sussex Downs College, Eastbourne
• Valuation Office Agency, Worthing

The partnership between Timely Intervention Limited, Creative Learning Media and Whitbread received the City & Guilds' sponsored Collaboration award for demonstrating effective collaboration between an employer, training provider and e-learning provider in the South East.

The following organisations won Highly Commended awards:

• Yell, Slough
• Polestar UK Print Limited, Milton Keynes (for its entry: Modern Apprenticeships in the print industry)
• Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Portsmouth
• Abbott Laboratories Ltd, Queenborough
• Eurest South East and Corporate, Uxbridge
• British Marine Federation, Egham
• Surrey County Council, Redhill
• Legal & General, Tadworth
• Family Investments, Brighton

The chair of the South East judging panel Kathryn Cook (HR Director for Parker CCL) said: "I extend my warmest congratulations to these winners. Their stories are quite inspirational and demonstrate the high quality training which is happening here in the South East.

"I hope their example encourages others in the region to invest in learning and development, and to enter their own success stories in next year's awards."

UK Skills runs the awards on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills. UK Skills chief executive, Jacqui Henderson, acknowledged the winners' success and commitment.

"These awards have always been about excellence, achievement and improvement. This means bottom-line benefits for employers and significant career development for individuals.

"We all benefit from a highly skilled workforce: the individuals themselves, because they are able to fulfil their potential and the organisations who employ them, because they have motivated, loyal and creative employees."

This year is the 20th anniversary of National Training Awards which were set up to celebrate individuals, businesses and organisations that have achieved outstanding success through training and development. The awards are sponsored by City & Guilds.

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