Key facts:

• UK Skills is a not for profit organisation. We champion skills and learning for work through the delivery of innovative, high profile competitions and awards which showcase excellence, and demonstrate how exceptional performance improves individual and organisational success. 
   
• Established in 1990, we have worked to raise the profile of skills in the UK and oversee the UK’s premier set of skills competitions, WorldSkills UK. We also manage the UK team entry to EuroSkills and WorldSkills, the biggest skills competition in the world. Most recently we spearheaded the bid to bring WorldSkills to London in 2011. The WorldSkills London 2011 Competition will be a truly global showcase for skills and young people from across the world.
   
• Alongside skills competitions we also manage the National Training Awards which celebrate exemplary training in the workplace; coordinating the awards, managing famously robust judging processes and organising celebration events across the UK. UK Skills works on behalf of Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) to shine a spotlight on those who have made a difference to their organisation through training.