EDA’s modules once again recognised as best-in-class workplace training in the 2025 Princess Royal Training Awards

The Electrical Distributors’ Association has once again been recognised by The Princess Royal Training Awards for the 12 Product Knowledge Training Modules. The EDA first held the Award in 2022 and following a rigorous assessment process has retained the Award in 2025 for another three years.

HRH The Princess Royal, President of the City and Guilds of London Institute, awards employers for outstanding training and skills development programmes which have positively impacted organisations, people and wider society. Now celebrating a decade of training excellence, The Princess Royal Training Awards honour organisations that demonstrate outstanding commitment to learning and development, and highlight the tangible impact of exceptional training on both businesses and individuals.

Launched in 2016 in response to demand from employers for recognition of excellence in workplace training, more than 1,000 training programmes have been put forward for evaluation. Since then, 415 Awards have been presented to 274 organisations, who have collectively trained almost 1 million people, demonstrating the Awards’ far-reaching place in skills development across the UK and Ireland.

Coinciding with HRH The Princess Royal’s 75^th birthday, the 10^th year of the Awards saw 143 applications, with 57 achieving the prestigious award. This year’s recipients represent a wide range of sectors including construction, hospitality, education and training, the public sector, not-for-profit, and heritage crafts.

“The EDA is deeply honoured to be awarded once again The Princess Royal Training Award,” says Margaret Fitzsimons, CEO of the EDA, adding, “The product knowledge programme is an initiative of which our members can be really proud. Wholesalers and manufacturers worked long and hard together to define and create the content and the visionary EDA board allocated the appropriate resources to enable their work to be published to the highest standard in book format then later digitally on the EDA Learning Platform, The EDA Academy.”

Since their launch in 2018, demand for the training modules continues to grow: to date over 11,000 modules have been ordered by 2,633 individuals working for 210 businesses in the UK’s electrotechnical sector, and across 860 wholesaler branches. Every module studied is rigorously assessed and 79 per cent of those who successfully complete their module assessments receive the top distinction grade.

The presentation of the award will take place at a ceremony in December 2025.