Greater Lincolnshire Apprenticeship Training Champion 2025
What makes a winner?
The Greater Lincolnshire Apprenticeship Training Champion Award 2025 seeks to acknowledge and celebrate individual commitment to designing, delivering and supporting high quality apprenticeships that meet both employer and apprentice needs.
The judges are looking for trainers, mentors, skills coaches or anyone working with an apprentice that demonstrates commitment to excellence in skills development through high quality partnership working with employers, ambitious curriculum design and delivery, and individualised support to ensure that apprentices succeed and progress.
Judges are looking for individuals that deliver excellence in Apprenticeships through:
- Clear partnership working with employers that contributes to effective curriculum design, organisational goals and positive learner outcomes
- Ambitious, high-quality training and support delivered to apprentices
- High levels of support for all apprentices, especially those with additional needs or barriers to learning
- Identifying and supporting opportunities for Apprentices to progress into long term employment, better prospects within the workplace or higher-level education
Who should be nominated?
Any individual involved in the delivery or support of Apprenticeships within Greater Lincolnshire, working with apprentices who have been on programme for at least the last 6 months on 9 June 2025 or have completed apprenticeship programmes that finished in 2024. This could include but is not limited to trainers, assessors, workplace mentors, skills and progress coaches.
Completing the form
The nomination for Greater Lincolnshire Apprenticeship Training Champion 2025 can be made by an employer, employer representative, training provider, colleague or apprentice.
Please read these guidance notes carefully – they will help you to complete the application form.
Guidance on completing your application
Please complete all sections of the application form. Incomplete entries will not be progressed to the judging stage.
Forms should be completed and submitted using the online form
Please observe and adhere to the character limit where these apply. The online form will not accept submissions beyond this limit.
The application form is split into four sections:
- Section 1 – Contact Information
- Section 2 – Background Information
- Section 3 – Application
- Section 4 – Declaration
Please ensure that you follow the guidance notes as this will enable you to provide the information that the judges need. All entries will be treated in the strictest of confidence.
Section One – Contact Information
In this section, we will ask for the details of the person completing the form. We will also ask for the training champion details and their employer details. We will use this information for publicity purposes and to confirm eligibility of your organisation to be included in consideration for the awards.
Section Two – Background Information
This is where you need to provide the judges with information about the training champion’s job role and how this fits into the organisation they work for. This will help the judges contextualise the nomination.
Section Three - Application
Please answer all questions as fully as possible and ensure that you include evidence such as quotes from employers, apprentices, statistics, comparative data, etc. Remember the judges will be looking for evidence of the impact the training champion makes on Greater Lincolnshire employers and apprentices.
Please observe and adhere to the character limit as outlined in each question. The online form will not accept any content beyond this limit.
Question 1 - What has the training champion done to help make the apprenticeship experience exceptional? (50%)
In this question, the judges will be looking to see evidence of how the individual has worked with apprentices and employers to contribute to the design and delivery of high quality and ambitious apprenticeship programmes, that support business needs and growth within the Greater Lincolnshire socio-economic context. Examples could include the approach that they take in delivering off-the-job apprenticeship training that meets employers’ needs and ensures that apprentices are well equipped for their next steps. You could explain how wider skills and behaviours are embedded within the apprenticeship programme to add value to the apprentice journey. You could explain what challenges were or are faced by the apprentice and employer throughout the apprenticeship and what steps the nominee has taken to overcome these. The judges are interested to learn what the impact of the nominee’s support has been on the apprentice and business. This could relate to one or more apprentices. (Max 2,500 characters)
Question 2 – Why do you think this person should be considered for the Greater Lincolnshire Apprenticeship Training Champion Award 2025 (50%)
Please provide examples of how the apprentice/apprentices have benefited from the nominee’s input on their apprenticeship, which could be from a professional or personal perspective or both. The judges will be looking for evidence of what this person has done above and beyond their role in supporting apprentices and their employers to ensure the best possible outcome for all. This may include specific skills development, additional training or enrichment provided, support in overcoming barriers to employment and progression, or supporting apprentices to aim high and realise their potential. Where possible, please include evidence of the impact of these interventions. (Max 2,500 characters)
Section Four – Declaration
You will need to confirm that the information provided is true to the best of your knowledge.
You will be asked to confirm that you have gained the training champion’s consent to be considered for Greater Lincolnshire Training Champion 2025 confirming in the declaration that the training champion is happy to participate in publicity activity related to the Awards. Your declaration will confirm that you are happy for the information provided to be used with publicity material for the awards.
All parties will receive confirmation of the application.
Supplementary Private Video Evidence (Optional)
Nominators have the opportunity to provide supplementary video evidence to support their written answers . It is not mandatory to submit a video and nominators who do not submit one will not be penalised in the judging process. The content of any video submissions should reflect the questions above.
If you would like to submit a private video (maximum 5 minutes), we recommend that you upload your video to YouTube and paste the link into the application form. Please ensure that videos are set to private before sharing – this will ensure that only the individuals connected with the awards can view the video and will help to protect your anonymity. Video evidence submitted will only be used to support the judging process and will not be used in any publicity associated with the awards.
Please see below the following support pages for how to upload and share videos to YouTube.
If you have further questions with regards to submitting video evidence, please email Place_LearningTeam@lincolnshire.gov.uk.
Help with your application
If you require any help with your application, please email Place_LearningTeam@lincolnshire.gov.uk.
Conditions of entry
The organisers cannot accept any responsibility for loss or damage of an entry. All entries will be treated in the strictest of confidence. The judges’ decisions will be final, and no correspondence or discussion will be entered into regarding the selection of winners.
All entries will be acknowledged by email to the applicant and learning provider email provided in the application. If you do not hear from us, please email Place_LearningTeam@lincolnshire.gov.uk.