Mentor Nominations 2027

Nominations for the 2027 Cornwall Apprenticeship Awards are now open! The Mentor of the Year Award recognises outstanding workplace and academic mentors who go above and beyond to support apprentices throughout their journey.  Anyone can nominate including apprentices, employers, friends and family members. Mentors can even nominate themselves and it’s completely free.

Apprenticeship Award Winner Brian

How to nominate

To nominate, complete our simple nomination form via the link below. You will be asked to provide 500-words across a series of questions to explain why your nominee should win the award with judges looking for examples of the following:

  • Mentoring the apprentice to develop skills and gain qualifications that have had a direct impact on their careers and workplaces.
  • Mentorship that has built the apprentices independence and confidence while supporting their personal development and wellbeing.
  • Reasons that set the nomination apart, make it a potential winner and an example for other mentors to follow.

It is not possible to save drafts of your nomination. We recommend you review the nomination form and draft your responses before completing and submitting the form.

Multiple nominations will not improve a mentor’s chance of winning. If multiple parties wish to nominate a mentor we recommend they combine their efforts into a single nomination of the highest possible quality.

Deadline: Nominations will close at 4pm on Monday 19 October.

Apprenticeship Awards 2026

Who is eligible for nomination?

Nominations are accepted from anyone including employers, friends, family members and colleagues. Employers and apprentices can even nominate themselves.

The free to enter process is open to anyone who has taken part in or provided Apprenticeship training since June 2025, regardless of their training provider. The business’s head office or main business premises should be based in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly.

If a business is sponsoring a category they will only judge categories where no representatives from their business have been nominated.

The trophies from the Cornwall Apprenticeship Awards 2024 are lined up in front of a window which shows the Eden Project's biomes.

OUR SPONSORS

A huge thank you to our sponsors from across the Cornish business community, without whom the Cornwall Apprenticeship Awards would not be possible.

Headline Sponsor

  • A Hertzian logo. The text reads 'Hertzian' in blue with a pyramid graphic to the left of the text.

Media Partner

  • The business cornwall logo. It says Business in black and cornwall in red.

Award Partners

  • A logo for Cornwall Manufacturers Group. The logo is black and gold and there are dots in a swirl pattern.

Sponsors

  • Boosters logo. The letter 'b' made out of colourful blocks and the word 'boosters' in green alongside.
  • The coastline logo where the words coastline and housing are in blue and there is a gold line above it.
  • A Cormac logo. The text reads 'Cormac, a division of corserv, a cornwall council company'. There is a crest with a chough on top to the side of the logo.
  • The Cornwall Opportunities logo. It says Cornwall in purple and Opportunities in pink. There is an orange, purple and pink line off to the side.
  • A logo for Dales. The text reads 'Dales Cornwall Van Centre, your family motor company'. The text and background is a mixture of white and blue.
  • Logo for iCQ Awards. iCQ in white letters against a blue background.
  • A logo for Imerys. The text reads 'Imerys' in black and there is a blue, unidentifiable graphic above the text.
  • Nevada Construction logo. Nevada in blue letters, construction in black letters against an orange background.