We provide a number of way to Recognise the Performance of your company and the people you employ. We run variious Awards Schemes and Competitions, provide routes to qualifications for staff, accredit your business and also monitor the impact of our various programmes. More details on these activities can be seen below: 

• Awards Schemes and Competitions
• Qualifications and Certification
• Accreditation
• Impact Assessment Studies

Award Schemes and Competitions

Hospitality Apprenticeship Awards

The Hospitality Apprenticeship Awards are organised by HALM on behalf of the Hospitality Skills Alliance (HSA), their Partners and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). The Awards are part of a wider programme of work announced by government to provide world beating apprenticeships for around one in five of all school leavers in the run-up to the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.

The Awards recognise skills, competence and achievement, with winners from each of the different apprenticeship routes, including professional food prepration and cookery, food and drink service, housekeeping, reception, multi skilled, and customer service. Professional food and drink service includes both bar and wine service skills. Customer Service can include, for example, concierge.

Entries are invited from all registered hospitality apprentices, together with their employers and apprenticeship providers. There will also be direct entry into the National Apprenticeship Awards, and routes through to the World Skills Competitions. 

There are three cateogies of award:

Roux Scholarship

The Roux Scholarship is entering its 27th year and is widely acknowledged as the top UK competition for young chefs. Becoming a Roux Scholar is undoubtedly considered the ultimate pinnacle, and many chefs aspire to join this elite band. Many past Roux Scholars have won great accolades, and the competition has established an enviable framework for encouraging talent and helping chefs to achieve their full potential. The scholarship has been emulated, but never equaled. It is still unique, not only for the training opportunity offered, but the fact that the Scholar joins this very exclusive club. HALM organises and administers all the technical aspects of the Scholarship including judging regional heats and National Final.

Hotel Excellence Awards

The Awards are open to all hotels whether small or large and almost all categories identify winners in both sectors. The awards are given to businesses that demonstrate their willingness to adopt and adapt best practice in aspects of their operation- so raising their efficiency and profitability. They show how innovative business practice can achieve outstanding success.  

Award categories are:

Sponsored by HRS.com

Excellent Customer Service (small/ large)

Excellence Through People (small/ large)

Excellent Social Responsibility (small/ large)

Best Family Friendly Hotel  (small/ large)

Best Value For Money Hotel (small/ large)

The Robert Regge Award for Innovation (open to hotels that are registered on the HRS.com database)

Sponsored by The British Hospitality Association

Excellence in Marketing (small/ large)

Sponsored by the Meetings Industry Association

Excellence in Meetings (small, large and Non hotel sectors are being considered together) Please note: this is the only category that non hotels may enter.

Sponsored by The Institute of Hospitality

Excellence in Business Management (small/ large)

For further details and how to enter follow this link:    www.hrshotelexcellenceawards.co.uk

Qualifications and Certification

We have built up an excellent working relationship with Awarding Bodies and Professional Bodies such as the British Institute of Innkeeping (BII), the Institute of Hospitality (IOH), the Academy of Food and Wine Service (AFWS) and Education Development International (EDI). This has included work to devise and develop a radically new approach to assessing competence in the workplace which has led to the production of an innovative Assessors Manual for use at NVQ Level 1 to 4. Our work has also included a project to identify the future skill needs of hospitality managers in Europe, and the development of a system of workplace assessment leading to the award of a new European Certificate and Diploma of Hospitality Management together with a new series of unit credit Awards, Certificates and Diplomas.

Accreditation 

"Excellence Through People" and "Accredited In Meetings" 

We work with the British Hospitality Association to develop and manage their "Excellence through People" scheme of recognising good employment practice and for the past three years with the Meetings Industry Association to develop and manage AIM - 'Accredited In Meetings". 

To find out more please click the appropriate logo. 

Impact Assessment Studies

Much of our work produces impressive results. With backing and support from Regional Development Agencies, Learning and Skills Councils and Business Links, amounting on average to some £4,500 per business, around 100 Accredited Business Coaches have delivered "Profit Through Productivity" programmes to over 5,650 businesses in the sector. Over 14,750 benchmarking reports have been completed, 56,000 hours of business support has been provided and 97% satisfaction levels achieved.  Average Profit Improvement achieved per business have been in excess of £31,000, with year on year productivity gains of over 52%: the revenue generated from every £1 spent on labour has increased from £4.93 to £7.10 - amounting to over £178 million to date.