The Educators’ Trust
Feb 24, 2026
The Chair of the Board of Trustees, Dr Jennifer Somerville, is pleased to reveal that winners for the 2026 Educators’ Trust Awards have been announced by the judges.
Full citations will be available after their presentation on 24 April 2026 HERE
Educators Trust Award Winners 2026
Inspirational Educator Awards for outstanding educators in the field of Exercise & Sport Education (nominating organisation in brackets):
Kareem Brown (The Boxing Academy)
Jackson Gibbons (City of London MAT)
Ian Gregory (Chance to Shine)
Sue Lynch (British Horse Society – Changing Lives)
Ian Mills (Youth Sports Trust)
Eleanor Owen (Coach Core)
Craig Winrow (St Mary’s University)
Iain Williamson (Youth Sports Trust)
The Master Educator’s Award for outstanding school leadership:
James Freeston, CEO Aurora Academies Trust
The Mary Lou Carrington Award for a businesswoman who has made a significant contribution to education:
Cece Sammy Lightfoot, nominated by the Speakers for Schools Programme at ‘Future For All’
The Keith Hutton Legacy Award for Theatre and Performing Arts Education:
David Pickering, MBE, nominated by the Royal Opera House, Learning and Participation Department
The Robert J Jones Award for Environmental Education:
Maggie Kansa, nominated by theSouth London Botanical Institute
The Trust Award for Art & Design Education:
Dr Charley Peters, nominated by the City & Guilds of London Art School
The Educators’ Trust and the Worshipful Company of Educators
wish all winners most hearty congratulations.
The 2026 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 Freddie Hudson, MBE, Director of Arsenal in the Community. Full citations and photographs will then be available on our Award Winners page 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.
The Educators’ Trust is incorporated under the Charities Act 2011 as Charitable Incorporated Organisation 1179353