Ambitious College has been nominated for a prestigious award recognising its innovative approach to further education.
 
The college has been nominated for the Innovative specialist/mainstream partnership working award at the 2025 NatSpec Innovation Awards.  

The NatSpec Innovation awards recognise and celebrate innovative practice in specialist further education colleges, and initiatives that result in improved outcomes for students with learning difficulties and/or disabilities.

Through Ambitious College’s partnerships with mainstream colleges the College of Haringey, Enfield, and North East London (CONEL) West Thames College, its learners access learning, social, employment and leisure opportunities alongside their peers in the mainstream settings, whilst receiving the specialist support they need.

This year’s nomination, which highlights the success of this partnership model, marks the third nomination Ambitious College has received at an annual NatSpec awards. In 2020 it was nominated in the home learning category, and then again in 2021, in the wellbeing and mental health category. The college won both awards.

Nicola Hawkins, Head of Ambitious College, said: 

We’re honoured to have been nominated for this prestigious award at the NatSpec Innovation Awards. Through our co-located model, we can offer autistic young people the benefits of specialist support combined with the opportunity to forge wider relationships within the community. 

We’d like to thank our co-located partners at the College of Haringey, Enfield, and North East London and West Thames College for their continued commitment to supporting Ambitious College learners to thrive and realise their ambitions.