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Awards

Listed below are a selection of awards and accomplishments achieved by The Sheffield College in recent years.

Awards

2024

Craft Guild of Chefs Awards 2024 winner - Accredited College Restaurant of the Year Award  Educate North Awards 2024 finalist - Diversity, equality and inclusion category Educate North Awards 2024 finalist - Student experience higher education/ further education sector category
Green Gown Awards 2024 finalist - Tomorrow’s employees category NCFE Aspiration Awards 2024 winner - Support staff of the year category Zest Quest Asia 2024 winner
UK Young Restaurant Team of the Year 2024 - overall winner UK Young Restaurant Team of the Year 2024 winner - Best use of seafood category Andrew Bennett Memorial Award Team Mentor of the Year 2024 - winner
Gold Hedgehog Friendly Campus Award WorldSkills Lyon 2024 alumnus finalist - health and social care category SkillBuild regional heats bricklaying (Jak Viney, second place) and joinery (Logan Jones, third place)
Alliance for Bakery Students and Trainees Awards - 15 medals (four gold, seven silver and four bronze) Elite Academy Basketball League (EABL) North Coach of the Year - Brad Connor EABL North All Conference Second Team - Adam Tokpah
EABL North Defensive Player Of The Year - Zion Dunn WEABL North All Conference Second Team - Danielle McNamara  

 

2023

Disability Confident Leader Level 3 re-accreditation Educate North Awards 2023 - Music and Performing Arts category finalist Craft Guild of Chefs - Accredited College Restaurant of the Year Award 2023 finalist
Craft Guild of Chefs Chef Lecturer Award winner – Len Unwin Silver Award for Service to the Craft Guild of Chefs – Len Unwin Professional Association for Catering Education Award 2023 - Best Culinary Team category
Queer Student Awards 2023 - Role Model of the Year LGBTQ+ category Yorkshire Young Professionals Awards - Young Professional Team of the Year – Industry Placements and Work-Related Activity Team Yorkshire Young Professionals Awards - Young Business Development Professional category – Shani Clifford
UK Young Restaurant Team of the Year Awards 2023 - Best Use of British Beef UK Young Restaurant Team of the Year Awards 2023 - Cafeology Barista Award UK Young Restaurant Team of the Year Awards 2023 - Welbilt Kitchen Award
UK Young Restaurant Team of the Year Awards 2023 - Wellocks Trophy Zest Quest Asia 2023 finalist Silver Hedgehog Friendly Campus Award
Skills for Care quality mark Sport England Talented Athlete Scholarship Scheme accreditation Good for Me Good for FE - volunteering category winner

 

2022

College of Sanctuary status Alliance for Bakery Students and Trainees competitions National Centre for Diversity FREDIE Awards – Chief Executive’s Special Award National Centre for Diversity Top 100 Most Inclusive Workplaces 2022 (sixth)
Craft Guilds of Chefs Awards – Chef Lecturer Award finalist AoC Beacon Awards runner-up in The National Centre for Diversity Award for Inclusive Learning Leadership category AoC Beacon Awards runner-up in The RCU Award for Support for Students category Nestlé Toque d’Or Grand Final shortlisting
Zest Quest Asia 2022 winners Educate North Awards - winner of the Employer Engagement FE/HE sector award Educate North Awards - commended in the innovation and social mobility categories Zest Quest Asia – winner
Zest Quest Asia Tilda Challenge 2022 – winner Awarded Google Reference College AoC Beacon finalists - National Centre for Diversity Award for Inclusive Learning Leadership and the RCU Award for Support for Students categories Glu Recruit Office Heroes Awards 2022 finalist – Scott Cotterill
FleurEx Awards 2022 first and second places – Novelty Wedding Orb category Institute of Professional Florists’ Floristry Student of the Year Award – Andrea Borrer Sheffield Business Awards 2022 - Best New Product/Service category WorldSkills UK National Finals 2022 silver medal - Floristry category
WorldSkills UK National Finals finalist – Health and Social Care category      

 

2021

Pearson’s BTEC Awards – BTEC College of the Year 2021 category bronze award Leaders in Diversity Award – from the National Centre for Diversity National Education Opportunities Network (NEON) Awards: winner of the Widening Access to Higher Education category
Edufuturists Awards – winner of the Employer Engagement category Queer Students Awards – joint winner of the Role Model of the Year category The National Centre for Diversity’s Top 100 Most Inclusive Workplaces Index 2021
The National Centre for Diversity’s FREDIE Awards 2021 - shortlisted for the FREDIE Lead of the Year and the Most Improved Organisation of the Year categories Recognition in the EdTech50 Zest Quest Asia Tilda Challenge 2021 – winner
Nestlé Toque d’Or National Heats – winner of the Front of House category Nestlé Toque d’Or Grand Finals – finalist in the Front of House category Salon Culinaire Salon Skills Competition – three gold medals and one silver, one bronze
The Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund – winner of the TikTok Break-out Award WorldSkills UK National Finals (Health and Social Care) - Bronze  

 

2020

AoC Beacon Awards - Careers and Enterprise Company Award for Innovation in Careers and Enterprise category AoC Beacon commended college - Careers and Enterprise Company Award for Innovation in Careers and Enterprise AoC Beacon commended college - City and Guild Award for College Engagement with Employers Quality in Careers Standard
Investors in Diversity Award - from the National Centre for Diversity Basketball England's Women’s Elite Basketball League - Most Valuable Player Award - Abbey Whitehouse Education and Training Foundation Technical Teaching Fellowship award - Nick Hart Zest Quest Asia finalists
Make UK Manufacturing Awards shortlist - apprentice Estelle Smith from Gripple AoC Beacon Awards - finalist for Outstanding Careers Education and Guidance AoC Beacon Commended College – for Innovation in Careers and Enterprise and Engagement with Employers Sheffield Park Hill Student Photography Competition – joint second place
UK Business Hero by the British Chambers of Commerce – for the College’s response during the coronavirus pandemic British Florist Association’s Education Awards 2020 – winner for achieving the highest theory marks in the Higher Diploma in Professional Floristry at Level 4 Student Watercress Challenge 2020 – winner Investors in Diversity Award

 

2019

Disability Confident Leader Level 3 AoC Sport Awards Inspirational Student Volunteer of the Year category - Tesfahun  Alliance for Bakery Students and Trainees (ABST) 2019 competitions
Educate North Awards finalist - Employer Engagement Award category Curtis Packaging Centre of Excellence double first prizes - Charlie Congreve and Jonah Jerrison-Cater Salon Culinaire medal wins - two gold, one silver and three bronze medals

 

2018

Annual Alliance for Bakery Students and Trainees competition wins British Florist Association Industry Awards Floristry Tutor of the Year finalist British Florist Association Industry Awards Floristry Training Provider of the Year finalist
Craft Guild of Chefs Awards, Chef Lecturer of the Year finalist Design Museum Students Awards – double winners Yorkshire Accountancy Awards Trainee of the Year finalist
Zest Quest Asia finalists    

 

2017

Health worker wins WorldSkills UK Bronze Award College Marketing Network’s FE First Awards - Silver WorldSkills UK floristry national finalist
UK Young Restaurant Team of the Year (Winners) Salon Culinaire awards wins Association of Colleges Yorkshire and Humber Student Enterprise award

 

2016

Gold Level Work Experience Quality Standard Young Pastry Chef Of The Year Cheese Grater Inspired Award Winning Design
Degree Student Wins Coveted D&AD New Blood Award Finn Crisp Challenge Winner WorldSkills Selection For Health and Social Care Students
College Training Restaurant Awarded AA Rosette Nestlé Professional Toque d’Or Finalists Hospitality Guild Recognises Centres of Excellence
Cateys Awards Forgotten Spaces Young Creatives Competition Journalism Student Wins National Industry Award
Airline Masterclass Winners