About City & Guilds
Who we are
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Key company facts
Did you know that 100% of craft plumbers in the UK have a qualifications jointly awarded by us.
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Our history
We have a long and distinguished past in vocational education. Take a look at some of the dates that we hold dear to ourselves.
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Strength in partnerships
A successful partnership is one that draws on the strengths of all members to their mutual benefit but more importantly to provide added value to their customers and stakeholders.
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Our Governance structure
A complete guide to how we work, from the President and Council to the Executive and Sub-Committee.
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Supporting excellence
We run an extensive sponsorship programme, recognising and supporting a wide range of events.
What we do
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Serving learners
City & Guilds offers learners over 500 qualifications in 28 industry areas – so that they can learn skills that equip them to fulfil their career ambitions or enrich their leisure time.
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Profiting employers
We recognise that traditional qualifications are not always appropriate to business environments. We have developed a programme to validate in-house training schemes.
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Partnering centres
We have more than 8500 centres (colleges, training providers and businesses) worldwide .offering our qualifications. These include large global organisations like Tesco.
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Living our values
We aim to develop a workplace culture that reflects our values and, as part of this, we have put together a range of initiatives to help employees who would like to support charitable community projects.
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Working worldwide
City & Guilds operates in around 100 countries, through 8500 centres worldwide. We have three major international hubs: London Johannesburg and Singapore.
Publications
Video Library
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John and Carol Burrows take us through why they feel that training is so important to their hairdressing business.
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Brian Collins tells us why he thinks skills are so important for volunteers like him.
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Gary Sinclair, trainee in ‘The Knowledge’ describes why he has always dreamed of becoming a London cabbie.
Watch Gary's video