Royal award
Princess Yachts has been awarded a Princess Royal Training Award for their Apprenticeship scheme.
24 August 2020
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A Princess Royal Award has been awarded to Princess Yachts’ Apprenticeship Programme.
The awards are selected by HRH The Princess Royal and the President of City & Guilds Group to recognise organisations whose training has delivered measurable business impact.
The City & Guilds Group announced on 14 August that 43 recipients from a wealth of sectors have been commended by the 2020 Princess Royal Training Awards.
The Princess Yachts Apprenticeship scheme received the recognition, as recruitment continued throughout the Covid- 19 lockdown period via Zoom interviews, and a record number of apprentices are set to start their programme at Princess Yachts in September 2020, with apprentices placed across all areas of the business.
Princess Yachts as a 2020 winner of this award have demonstrated ‘exceptional commitment to training, despite facing unprecedented challenges of Covid- 19’ according to the judges.
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Princess Yachts won the award for ‘positioning apprenticeships as a viable career choice’.
Princess was recognised for having invested in its apprenticeship programme to ensure that it has a strong talent pipeline in place.
Apprenticeships at Princess are open to employees of any age, with apprentices progressing their career path within the business and in fact 10 percent of the current managers within the business are former apprentices.
“We are so pleased to be awarded a Princess Royal Training Award for our apprenticeship programme,” says Alison Thompson, Head of Learning & Development at Princess Yachts.
“The assessment process was rigorous and very different this year, taking place remotely via MS Teams. However, the assessors took the time to speak to some of our apprentices and to gain a better understanding of our collaborative partnership with South Devon College who support us in the delivery of our programme.
“It is great to know we are setting the right standards, experience and support to our apprentices as they begin their career with us and ultimately the marine industry.”
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