The Nimble Awards are back for their ninth year, and we’re delighted to reveal the finalists who have earned a place on this year’s shortlist.
Every year, the Nimble Awards celebrate the organisations using digital learning to make a genuine difference. Whether it’s transforming workplace culture, improving business performance, supporting communities or helping to save lives, this year’s entries showcased the incredible impact that thoughtfully designed learning can have.
The quality of submissions was once again outstanding. Customers from a wide range of sectors shared inspiring stories of innovation, collaboration and measurable success, making this one of our most competitive years to date.
Our judging panel, made up of experts in learning design, digital learning and business, carefully reviewed every submission. They explored the challenges each organisation set out to solve, the creativity behind the learning design, and the tangible impact achieved for learners, organisations and the communities they serve.
Congratulations to everyone who entered this year’s awards. Your creativity, dedication and commitment to making learning engaging, meaningful and impactful have made selecting the finalists an incredibly difficult task.
After much discussion and careful deliberation, the finalists have now been selected across our three award categories:
- Course of the Year
- Positive Business Impact
- Charity Champions
The winners will be announced during a special awards ceremony at Nimble Community Day on Thursday 17 September at Stonehouse Court Hotel, Gloucestershire.
Nimble Community Day is one of the highlights of our calendar, bringing together customers from across the UK to share ideas, celebrate achievements, discover new approaches to digital learning and connect with fellow learning professionals. We look forward to celebrating another fantastic year and recognising the organisations that continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible with elearning.
The 2026 Nimble Awards finalists in alphabetical order and their categories are:
Course of the Year
This award will be presented to an organisation or individual who displays excellence in the design and delivery of an elearning course through Nimble.
Judges looked for a course that demonstrates sound instructional design principles, delivered in a creative or engaging way. They looked for evidence of working towards a project brief with key stakeholder engagement throughout, and a clear focus on learner experience. Evidence against success criteria was also considered by the judges.
Consortio Security: Martyn’s Law
Consortio Security is one of the UK’s fastest-growing and most forward-thinking security companies, dedicated to protecting people, property, information and organisational assets. Their course, Martyn’s Law, was named in memory of Martyn Hett, who lost his life in the 2017 Manchester Arena attack. The legislation aims to improve public safety by requiring organisations responsible for publicly accessible venues and events to consider the risk of terrorism and have appropriate plans and procedures in place.
Judges’ comments:
This course successfully translates the legislation into practical, role-specific guidance, covering protective security, emergency preparedness and effective incident response. Its operational relevance, consistent design and professional presentation create a learning experience that reflects the seriousness of the subject while helping learners develop the confidence to recognise potential threats, respond appropriately and contribute to creating safer public spaces. The clear structure, thorough coverage and practical focus successfully bridge the gap between legislation and everyday operational practice.
Green Thumb: Think, Check and Protect
GreenThumb is the UK’s leading lawn care provider, with more than 40 years of experience helping homeowners create healthier, greener outdoor spaces. Operating through a nationwide network of local specialists, the company combines expert knowledge, innovative treatments and outstanding customer service to deliver tailored lawn care solutions that keep gardens looking their best throughout the year.
Their Think, Check and Protect course was created to help colleagues better understand data protection and reduce the risk of data breaches through simple, everyday actions.
Judges’ comments:
Built around a clear and memorable theme, the course combines distinctive branding, engaging videos, interactive activities and real-world scenarios to help learners recognise and prevent common risks before they occur. The bright, accessible design and practical approach make a serious subject engaging without diminishing its importance, while reflecting the everyday pressures employees face in the workplace. Supported by measurable reductions in data breaches and excellent learner feedback, the project demonstrates how creative, behaviour-focused elearning can strengthen security awareness and inspire lasting organisational change.
PAM Group: Adult Sepsis in a Community Setting
Established in 2004, PAM Group has grown to become the largest, privately owned occupational health, rehabilitation, wellbeing and absence management company in the UK. They work with over 1,500 employers across the UK, supporting over 1.5m employees.
Developed to replace a generic training programme, Adult Sepsis in a Community Setting provides occupational health clinicians with practical, role-specific guidance to recognise the signs of sepsis, use NEWS2 to assess patient deterioration and escalate care appropriately.
Judges’ comments:
Transforming a complex clinical subject into an engaging and accessible learning experience, this course combines a clear, logical structure with videos, practical exercises and downloadable resources to support confident decision-making. A strong focus on the National Early Warning Score (NEWS2) helps learners assess the severity of illness, recognise sepsis early and take appropriate action, demonstrating how well-designed digital learning can improve both knowledge and patient care.
Positive Business Impact
This award will be presented to the organisation or individual demonstrating significant business impact through the use of elearning.
This could have been an internal project, a commercial venture, reseller initiative or professional course build. Entrants may also have wished to highlight how elearning has had an impact on their response to ongoing economic challenges, and the rise of remote and hybrid working. Judges looked for clear objectives for the use of elearning, a well-considered project plan, defined success criteria, marketing campaign (if applicable), and an indication of the performance improvement or revenue generation achieved.
Abbeyfield The Dales
Abbeyfield The Dales is a Yorkshire-based charity dedicated to making time for older people by providing high-quality housing, care and support. As part of the Abbeyfield family, the charity helps people enjoy later life with dignity, independence and companionship through a range of housing, residential care and community services designed to reduce loneliness and promote wellbeing.
Judges’ comments:
Transforming its approach to workplace learning, Abbeyfield The Dales has shown how a clear strategy and strong leadership can deliver lasting organisational change. By increasing training compliance from 32% to more than 90% and closely monitoring progress, the organisation has strengthened its learning culture, improved accountability and enhanced confidence and safety for both staff and residents. This is a powerful example of how a strategic investment in learning can deliver measurable business impact.
Emergency Care Gateway Ltd (ECG)
ECG is an award-winning UK healthcare training provider with more than 20 years’ experience delivering high-quality clinical education to the NHS, community pharmacy and private healthcare sectors. Combining expert-led training with innovative digital learning, ECG equips healthcare professionals with the skills, knowledge and confidence to deliver safe, consistent and effective patient care.
Judges’ comments:
Working in partnership with Boots on the UK’s largest health research programme, ‘Our Future Health’, ECG demonstrated how digital learning can deliver consistency at scale. Supporting more than 6,300 participant bookings across 161 locations, the organisation successfully standardised phlebotomy procedures for a nationwide network of experienced clinicians. By combining structured elearning with competency frameworks and clinical supervision, they not only strengthened research integrity, participant safety and clinical governance, but also demonstrated that even the most experienced professionals can embrace new ways of working when learning is practical, engaging and purposeful.
Starlight Children’s Foundation
Starlight Children’s Foundation is the UK’s leading charity dedicated to putting play at the heart of children’s healthcare. By championing the power of play, the charity works with hospitals and healthcare professionals to reduce fear, anxiety and trauma, helping seriously ill children and their families experience happier, healthier healthcare journeys.
Judges’ comments:
Recognising that safeguarding is about creating a culture, not simply achieving compliance, Starlight Children’s Foundation developed a blended learning programme that encouraged genuine engagement with this vital topic. The initiative prompted thoughtful reflection, increased safeguarding awareness and led to more proactive risk assessments across the organisation, while requests for refresher workshops demonstrated sustained commitment to learning. Developed in-house, the programme also delivered an estimated £1,000 cost saving, creating a sustainable resource that continues to strengthen confidence, accountability and safeguarding practice across the charity.
Charity Champions
Awards will be presented to the organisation or individual demonstrating significant impact to a charity or non-profit through the use of elearning; this could be within the local community, or as part of a wider positive societal force for change.
All types of organisations were invited to apply, but this category is particularly suited to charities and non-profit organisations, or to businesses that have supported a charity through the use of elearning.
Meningitis Now
Meningitis Now is the first meningitis patient group in the world, the founder of the meningitis movement and the only charity dedicated to fighting meningitis in the UK. Over their 40-year history, they have invested over £12.7m in early-stage research that has played a critical part in the introduction of five life-saving vaccines.
Judges’ comments:
In response to a critical public health emergency when a serious bacterial meningitis outbreak created uncertainty and concern across the UK, Meningitis Now drew on their expertise to provide trusted, life-saving information when it was needed most. Developed in just seven days, the charity’s medically verified learning resource helped educate, reassure and protect students, educators and the wider community, leaving a lasting legacy that continues to support communities beyond the initial outbreak.
National Star
National Star is dedicated to enabling young people with disabilities and complex needs to realise their potential. Through specialist education, personalised learning, therapy, care and support services, the charity helps individuals build the skills, confidence and independence needed to lead fulfilling lives, while working to challenge stereotypes, raise aspirations and create a more inclusive society.
Judges’ comments:
As artificial intelligence becomes an increasingly important part of everyday working life, National Star has taken a proactive approach to helping colleagues use new technologies safely, responsibly and ethically. By equipping staff with the knowledge and confidence to embrace AI while maintaining the highest standards of safeguarding, confidentiality and data protection, the charity is ensuring innovation supports, rather than compromises, the people it exists to serve.
Neuro Therapy Network
Neuro Therapy Network is a UK-wide charity and membership organisation supporting a network of around 50 independent therapy centres across Great Britain, Jersey and Gibraltar. Together, these centres provide life-enhancing physical, neurological and complementary therapies for more than 15,000 people every week, helping those living with neurological and other long-term health conditions to improve their wellbeing, independence and quality of life.
Judges’ comments:
Neuro Therapy Network has made safety, consistency and quality central to the services it provides. By ensuring volunteers and oxygen therapy operators receive specialist annual training, the charity gives service users, trustees and therapy centres confidence that high standards of care are being maintained across the network. It is an excellent example of how charities can strengthen governance while protecting the people who rely on their services.
To everyone that entered, thank you for sharing your inspiring stories with us. Your commitment to learning and making a positive difference is what the Nimble Awards are all about, and we can’t wait to celebrate your achievements together in September!
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