Aspiration Awards 2025

Behind every success, there is aspiration

Our Aspiration Awards are about honouring the success of learners, apprentices, educators, support staff and educational organisations across the UK. 

We believe that there isn’t just one definition of success. Throughout our 175 years in this sector, we've seen it in many forms – from going above and beyond to exceed expectations, to overcoming obstacles to achieve the unexpected, to finding new and innovative ways of working to help others achieve.

Nominations for our 2025 Aspiration Awards will open on Monday 2 December. Save the date and get your nominations in early!

The categories for 2025 are:

Against All Odds
Apprentice of the Year
Centre of the Year
Educator of the Year
Learner of the Year
Support Staff of the Year.

Coming soon: Our 2025 judging panel

We're excited to share our new judging panel with you soon!

What are the Aspiration Awards?

Watch our video below to learn more about our annual awards.

Celebrating our 2024 winners

It was incredibly hard for our judges to choose our winners this year, as we received nominations from so many inspiring learners, educators and centres. You can learn more about our Learner of the Year, Apprentice of the Year and our Against All Odds winner by clicking on their images below, or discover our full list of 2024 winners here.

Learner of the Year: Matthew McGrotty

Apprentice of the Year: Ellie Burke

Against All Odds winner: Michael Serco

Celebrating our 2023 winners

In 2023, we received a record-breaking number of nominations in our Aspiration Awards. You can learn more about our Learner of the Year, Apprentice of the Year and our Against All Odds winner by clicking on their images, or discover our full list of 2023 winners by clicking here or watching the video below.

Meet our 2023 Aspiration Award winners!

Our Aspiration Awards are about honouring the success of learners, apprentices, educators, support staff and educational organisations across the UK.  Take a look back at all our winners from 2023 in this video.

Watch on YouTube