Recognising centres that demonstrate outstanding commitment to high-quality learning, innovation and impact, the Centre of the Year award celebrates organisations that make a meaningful difference. This year, LimeCulture Training is our highly commended (accreditation) for its sustained, values-led approach to professional development and its far-reaching impact across multiple sectors.
LimeCulture’s courses are accredited by NCFE and delivered through our customised qualifications, ensuring rigour and recognised standards across all learning programmes.
Driving meaningful change
LimeCulture Training specialises in education and quality improvement across sectors responding to sexual violence, abuse, harassment, and safeguarding. Its approach moves beyond compliance, focusing on practice-based learning that builds confidence, strengthens capability, and improves real-world outcomes.
Over the past year, more than 1,500 professionals across education, health, policing, sport, the military, faith settings, and specialist sexual violence services have completed LimeCulture programmes. Collectively, these learners have a potential reach of approximately 76,000 individuals, demonstrating the scale of indirect impact.
In addition, 752,981 students have benefited from access to support through LimeCulture-trained Sexual Violence Liaison Officers, highlighting the organisation’s wider contribution to safer communities.
Beyond this, LimeCulture has also trained 1,028 Independent Sexual Violence Advisers since 2011 through its flagship ISVA Development Programme – more than any other organisation in the country – making it the leading national provider in this field. These professionals go on to support more than 100,000 survivors each year, reflecting the depth and significance of the organisation’s work.
Building capability through innovation
LimeCulture’s programmes are informed by research, survivor insight, and sector expertise, ensuring that learning remains current, evidence-based and responsive to emerging need. Its impact is both measurable and consistent, with 96% of delegates rating training as very good or excellent.
Outcomes include increased confidence, clearer professional boundaries, and improved understanding of safeguarding responsibilities, leading to stronger professional practice and positive cultural change within organisations.
A defining feature of the organisation’s approach is its commitment to trauma-informed, reflective learning. Structured opportunities for discussion, reflection and application to real-world scenarios ensure that learning is not only informative, but transformative and sustainable.
Delivery methods are both innovative and adaptable, including blended learning, reflective practice sessions, learning circles, specialist workshops and tailored Train-the-Trainer programmes.
During the 2024/25 academic year and the current year, LimeCulture has supported three universities to implement bespoke e-learning aligned with regulatory requirements, enabling scalable, trauma-informed training tailored to each institution.
Extending impact beyond the classroom
LimeCulture’s work goes beyond individual training to support systemic change. Its programmes encourage learners to strengthen policies, reporting pathways, procedures and organisational culture, ensuring a lasting ripple effect across the settings they operate in.
The organisation also plays a leadership role within the sector, working with government, national bodies, regulators and partners to shape policy, influence best practice and support continual improvement. Its accreditation frameworks promote accountability, consistency and high standards across services nationally.
Accessibility and inclusion are central to its design, with easy-read materials, flexible assessment approaches, trauma-aware facilitation and additional learner support embedded throughout. Internally, LimeCulture invests in the development of its trainers and associates, modelling the values of reflection, integrity and quality that underpin its work.
A highly commended centre
Through innovative programme design, demonstrable impact and an unwavering commitment to trauma-informed practice, LimeCulture continues to strengthen professional capability, improve organisational culture and contribute to safer futures.
Its sustained influence across sectors, and its dedication to high-quality, transformational learning, make it our highly commended (accreditation) Centre of the Year.
Stephanie Reardon, CEO of LimeCulture Training, adds: "To be recognised as Highly Commended for Centre of the Year is a tremendous achievement for LimeCulture. Our mission has always been to create meaningful, lasting change through high-quality, trauma-informed learning, and this recognition reflects the commitment of everyone involved in delivering that vision. We are incredibly proud of the difference our learners go on to make in their organisations and communities."
Congratulations LimeCulture Training! To read more inspirational stories from this year’s award winners, visit our Aspiration Awards 2026 page.
