Awards || The Sheffield College

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

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

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

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

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