About the Awards

The Hospitality Apprenticeship Awards 2010 are organised by the Hospitality Skills Alliance in association with EDI, and in partnership with the British Institute of Innkeeping, the Institute of Hospitality, and the Learning and Skills Council (LSC). Supporting the Awards are the British Hospitality Association, the National Skills Academy for Hospitality and Millennium and Copthorne Hotels.

The Awards will recognise practical skills, competence and achievement, with winners from each of the different work areas in hospitality, including professional food preparation and cookery, restaurant service, pub, housekeeping, reception, portering and concierge, and customer service.  Restaurant service will include both bar and wine service skills.

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

The Awards will be presented at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Tuesday, 29th June as part of the British Hospitality Association Annual Lunch.

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.

How does the judging process work?

  1. Launch and applications invited.
  2. Registration of entries.
  3. Shortlisting of entrants by a panel of judges
  4. Shortlisted entrants:

Hospitality Apprentice of the Year - Two Day Residential Event

Hospitality Apprentice Employer of the Year - Completion of on-site external verification

Hospitality Apprentice Provider of the Year - Completion of on-site external verification

   5. Awards Presentation - British Hospitality Association Luncheon - Tuesday 29th June 2010

What is the Technical Working Group?

A Technical Working Group comprising leading subject experts will determine and agree the format of the competition, together with the selection, marking and assessment criteria. Members of the Technical Working Group, together with other industry experts and personalities, are actively involved in the judging, and in monitoring quality standards. Some of the judges will be qualified assessors.

Who organises the awards?

The Hospitality Apprenticeship Awards 2010 are organised by Hospitality and Leisure Manpower (HALM) on behalf of the Hospitality Skills Alliance, their partners and supporters and builds on, and extends, the success of the previous Hospitality Modern Apprenticeship Competition.

Hospitality and Leisure Manpower has extensive experience of policy and strategy work with Tourist Boards, Trade Associations and Professional Bodies in the sector. This includes training and business support, research into best practice, together with the administration of accreditation schemes, awards schemes and competitions