Enginuity Awards 2024 with Steph McGovernA clarion call for great British engineers and engineering, is echoing across the country, as nominations for the
Enginuity Skills 2025 Awards are opened. The awards will embrace a new potential ‘golden era’ of great British engineering, to enhance growth and prosperity, which will be celebrated at a glittering ceremony in the heart of London, next year.
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Enginuity Skills Awards recognise the individuals and organisations advocating for skills excellence in engineering and manufacturing. The theme for event, to be held on 3 July 2025, is ‘Engineering and Manufacturing is the Engine of Growth’. The gala dinner will take place at the Park Plaza London Riverbank where the winners will be announced.
Ann Watson, CEO of Enginuity, which represents hundreds of engineering and advanced manufacturing organisations, from small family firms to blue-chip brands, through the Enginuity Alliance, wants the awards to underline the true potential that the sector offers the UK.
She said: “Engineering and manufacturing are ready and able to embark on a new ‘golden age’ which will enhance productivity and output, we just need Government and education to produce the catalyst to help make that happen. The Government and business are united in their desire for economic growth and our sector has the pent-up potential to deliver it. These awards celebrate those that have excelled in all sorts of ways, extraordinary people with extraordinary stories, icons to inspire others, spread innovation and enhance the sector in all sorts of ways.”
Inspire and empowerEach year, the
Enginuity Skills Awards celebrates the teams and individuals who inspire and empower the next generation of talent in the engineering and manufacturing sector, fostering a culture of innovation, diversity, and collaboration. Two new categories will feature, ‘New Talent Inspiration Programme of the Year’, to recognise initiatives which have brought new sources of talent into the sector and the ‘Enginuity Alliance Collaboration Award’, which celebrates collaboration between different kinds of organisations on projects which impact core skills challenges.
Other categories are ‘Graduate, Degree or Higher-Level Apprentice of the Year’, ‘Advanced Level Apprentice’, ‘T Level Student’, ‘SME Employer Skills Champion’, ‘Large Employer Skills Champion, Training Provider Skills Champion’, and the coveted ‘Best of British Award’ (selected from winners of the above).
Sponsors of the event include BAE Systems, EAL, Eduqas, Rolls Royce, Siemens and Witherslack Group. Nominations close on 14 February 2025, and finalists will be announced during the week commencing 31 March 2025. Winners of the apprenticeship categories and the ‘T Level Student’ category will receive a £1,000 prize, with two runners-up for each category receiving £500.
Nominations can be made by visiting
www.enginuity.org/skills-awards-202514 February 2025.
The Enginuity Alliance, which launched in November, aims to give engineering a unified voice, with a view to influencing policy, improving the flow in the skills pipeline, and generating growth and prosperity.