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Aspiration Awards 2025

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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.

Whatever success looks like to you, we want your help to recognise those doing exceptional things in education.

Nominations for our 2025 Aspiration Awards are now open!

Submit your nominations now before the window closes on Friday 21 February 2025.

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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.

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

Learner of the Year: Harry Disney

Learn more about our Learner of the Year 2023, pictured here

Apprentice of the Year: Christopher Ademola

Learn more about our Apprentice of the Year 2023, pictured here with his mum and award

Against All Odds winner: Gabriella Fox

Learn more about our Against All Odds 2023 winner, pictured here with her mum and award