The Educators’ Trust

Award Winners for 2025 announced

Mar 6, 2025

The Chair of the Board of Trustees, Dr Jennifer Somerville, is pleased to announce the Educators’ Trust Award winners for 2025.

Full citations will be available after their presentation on 25 April 2025 HERE

The overarching aim of the Educators’ Trust is ‘to promote the development of the profession of educator’. We mainly do this by awarding prizes, bursaries and grants to outstanding individual educators for innovation and excellence in professional practice. The winners may come from any level of education, any subject area and any setting in which learning takes place. We include in the term ‘educator’ all those professionals who contribute to creating a stimulating, diverse and supportive environment in which people learn and enrich their lives.

The Trust is able to make awards to these inspirational individuals because of the generosity of members of the Company of Educators and other individuals and organisations who share our values and aspirations for the profession of educator.

Educators Trust Award Winners 2024–25

Inspirational Educator Awards for outstanding educators in the field of Early Childhood Education:

Molly Devlin nominated by ArkStart Charity;

Rachel Higginson nominated by Chartered College of Teachers;

Becky Watanabe nominated by Acorn Early Years;

Chinami Sakai nominated by Young V & A;

Bethany Mitchell nominated by National Literacy Trust;

Chris Chorley nominated by Bath Spa University;

Becky Jackson nominated by Chartered College of Teaching;

Sheree Tralau nominated by Ormiston Trust.

In addition, and unusually, the judges awarded a Highly Commended to Mary Savva nominated by Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

The Master Educator’s Award for outstanding school leadership: Cheryl Alexander

The Mary Lou Carrington Award for a businesswoman who has made a significant contribution to education: Najana Ahuja nominated by Speakers for Schools

The Keith Hutton Legacy Award for Theatre and Performing Arts Education: Sigrun Saevarsdottir-Griffiths nominated by the Guildhall School of Music

The Robert J Jones Award for Environmental Education: Simon Lightman nominated by the City of London Corporation, Natural Environment

The Trust Award for Art & Design Education: Livia Papiernik nominated by the Royal School of Needlework

The Educators’ Trust and the Worshipful Company of Educators
wish all its winners most hearty congratulations.

These awards will be presented to the winners at a formal dinner of the Worshipful Company of Educators in late April at which the guest speaker will be Dame Floella Benjamin. Full citations and photographs will then be available on our Award Winners page HERE.