About us

Helping people, organisations and economies develop their skills for growth

For over 140 years we have worked with people, organisations and economies to help them identify and develop the skills they need to thrive. We understand the life changing link between skills development, social mobility, prosperity and success. 

We partner with our customers to deliver work-based learning programmes that build competency, to support better prospects for people, organisations and wider society. We create flexible learning pathways that support lifelong employability, because we believe that people deserve the opportunity to (re)train and (re)learn again and again – gaining new skills at every stage of life, regardless of where they start. 

We’re a Royal Chartered Institute and a registered charity, everything we do is charitable. We invest our surplus into expanding and enhancing our solutions across all of our brands, to meet the changing needs of organisations and industries. And through our City & Guilds Foundation we amplify our purpose by focusing on high impact social investment, recognition and advocacy programmes which remove barriers to getting a job, celebrate best practice on the job and advocate for jobs of the future. 

Our purpose is the same today as it has always been – to help people, organisations and economies develop their skills for growth. Today, the Group consists of City & Guilds, ILM, Kineo, The Oxford Group, Gen2, Intertrain and Trade Skills 4U. Our brands provide a broad and imaginative range of products and services that help people achieve their potential through work-based learning. Together, they set the standards for corporate learning, on-the-job development, and skills recognition. 

Find out more at the City & Guild’s website.

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Our Values

We value each other and we embody our City & Guilds culture through living our values in everything we do.

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Did you Know?

• We operate in over 100 countries
• We employ over 1,300 people in all kinds of different roles
• We work directly with over 350 employers across the globe
• We were founded in 1878 by the Corporation of the City of London and 16 livery companies
• Our royal connections started in 1881 when King Edward VII became our first President when he was still Prince of Wales
• Every employee is allowed to take three days per year for volunteering and we match donations up to £200 per year
• Last year 186 employees volunteered in their local communities, providing 1302 hours of service
• Our bursary programme awards £250,000 every year to help people who can’t afford to study to gain City & Guilds and ILM qualifications
• We provided 75 work experience placements given last year – that’s nearly six work experience placements for every 100 employees
• 90% of our people connect strongly with our purpose