About City & Guilds
The City and Guilds of London Institute is a renowned educational organisation
in the United Kingdom. Established on 11 November 1878 by the City of London
and 16 livery companies, it was created to develop a national system of technical
education. Since 1900, the institute has been operating under a royal charter
granted by Queen Victoria, with the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, as
its first president.
The institute is also a registered charity and serves as the awarding body for
City & Guilds and ILM qualifications. It offers numerous accredited
qualifications mapped onto the Regulated Qualifications Framework
The current president of the institute is the Princess Royal, who took on
this role in June 2011, following her father, the Duke of Edinburgh, who
served for nearly 60 years. The Chair of Council is Dame Ann Limb, a
member of WorldSkills UK’s Skills Taskforce for Global Britain, who
assumed office in 2021.
City & Guilds is composed of several businesses, including ILM,
Kineo, The Oxford Group, Digitalme, and Gen2, all contributing
to its mission of advancing education and professional skills
ELEVATING SKILLS & TRANSFORMING LIVES
SKILL JOBS
THE CITY & GUILDS
GROUP CONNECTS SKILLS
TO JOBS SO PEOPLE &
ORGANISATIONS CAN
PROGRESS
