Awards, accreditations, partnerships and regulators
See the list of awards, accreditations, partnerships and regulators that National Star are affiliated with below.
Natspec Awards
National Star won the highly coveted Natspec award for inter-disciplinary working for its approach to meeting the needs of young people with complex disabilities.
Read more about our Natspec Award win
tes FE Awards
National Star College was named Specialist Education Provider of the Year in the 2019 tes FE Awards. Judges described National Star as an ‘an inspiring place’ that puts its learners at the centre of everything it does.
Read more about our tes FE Award win
aoc Beacon Awards
Celebrating the best and most innovative practice among UK further education (FE) colleges.
Read more about our aoc Beacon Award win
Fundraising Regulator
The Fundraising Regulator is an independent, non-statutory body that regulates fundraising across the charitable sector in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
They stand up for best practice in fundraising in order to protect donors and support the vital work of fundraisers.
Find out more about the Fundraising Regulator
Education and Skills Funding Agency
The ESFA brings together the former responsibilities of the Education Funding Agency (EFA) and Skills Funding Agency (SFA) to create a single agency accountable for funding education and skills for children, young people and adults.
ESFA is an executive agency, sponsored by the Department for Education.
Find out more about the Education and Skills Funding Agency
CQC
CQC are the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England.
They make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate and high-quality care, and they encourage care services to improve.
Find out more about CQC
European Social Fund
The ESF is Europe’s main instrument for supporting jobs, helping people get better jobs and ensuring fairer job opportunities for all EU citizens. It works by investing in Europe’s human capital – its workers, its young people and all those seeking a job.
Find out more about the European Social Fund
Ofsted
Ofsted is the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills. They inspect and regulate services that care for children and young people, and services providing education and skills for learners of all ages. Ofsted is a non-ministerial department.
Find out more about Ofsted
GEM partner
The GEM Project aims to engage with and support individuals within Gloucestershire who are currently dealing with circumstances that are potentially causing barriers to work and move these people closer towards education, training, volunteering or work, including self-employment.
Find out more about the GEM project
Princess Royal Training Awards
Honouring employers who have created outstanding training and skills development programmes which have resulted in exceptional commercial benefits.
Find out more about the Princess Royal Training Award
Circle 2 Success member
Founded in 2013, Circle2Success is bringing the business community closer together to forge relevant relationships, share ideas, champion excellence and best practice and work more closely together as a real business community, with real value and benefit to all.
Find out more about Circle2Success
Cyber Essentials certification
Cyber Essentials is a simple but effective Government-backed scheme that helps organisations, whatever their size, protect themselves against a whole range of the most common cyber attacks.
Find out more about Cyber Essentials
Disability Confident employer
Disability Confident is a scheme that is designed to help employers recruit and retain disabled people and people with health conditions for their skills and talent.
Find out more about Disability Confident
Green Impact Bronze Award for Sustainability
Green Impact is a United Nations award-winning programme designed to support environmentally and socially sustainable practice in organisations of all kinds, including National Star.
Find out more about Green Impact
