Learning excellence, powered by assessment

We’re an Ofqual-regulated assessment organisation which designs and delivers high-impact assessments. Over 35,000 people every year get qualified and advance their careers with credentials from Innovate Awarding. When individuals succeed through your learning programmes, your reputation soars.

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Empowering learners, elevating reputation

Our rigorous yet accessible assessments empower individuals to achieve their full potential and secure meaningful careers. Innovate is the choice for providers and employers ready to elevate their impact. Our promise is exceptional support. This means you can focus your energy where it matters most: delivering outstanding education and gold-standard apprenticeships.

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Built on agility, driven by partnership

We’ve been here since 2009 and we’ve seen the landscape shift, the policies change, and the market evolve. This longevity isn’t just history; it’s provided a source of unmatched expertise and agility. We flex as fast as the market demands, ensuring your provision remains compliant, current, and competitive. 

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Part of Lifetime Group

Creating tomorrow's workforce: we solve talent gaps for competitive advantage transforming learning, skills and enabling social mobility.

Our vision for the future is driven by a simple belief: everyone should have the chance to learn the skills that transform their lives and help them reach their full potential. This is the world as we see it, and it's the one we'll never stop working towards.

It's a world freed of skills gaps; a world defined by diverse skills, social mobility, empowered people, thriving communities, sustainable and growing businesses.

It's with this shared purpose - and through our scale, breadth and influence - that Innovate, as part of the Lifetime Group, is in the strongest position to make this vision a reality, for the people and businesses across the UK that choose and trust us to transform their futures.

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