A company from Watford which trains removal men and women has won a national award.

BAR Training Services (BARTS), the training division of the British Association of Removers (BAR) based in Exchange Road, Watford, won the “Most Innovative BTEC Apprenticeship Provider of the Year‟ award at the 2012 National BTEC Awards.

The award was made in recognition of the first ever removals apprenticeship the “Commercial Moving Apprenticeship‟.

This apprenticeship was designed for the commercial moving industry by BARTS and the BAR Commercial Moving Group (CMG) and is delivered nationally by BARTS in partnership with West Herts College.

Watford MP Richard Harrington said he was delighted by the success of BARTS and their training partner, West Herts College.

He said: “I am very proud of this achievement. I am very pleased with how the system is working, both locally in Watford with the local partnership between BARTS and West Herts College, and also nationally.”

The awards ceremony, held in London recognised almost one million students around the UK who are currently studying BTEC qualifications.

Pearson, who own Edexcel, the awarding body for BTECs, received more than 500 nominations across the 16 award categories for this year‟s Awards.

The National BTEC Awards 2012 is now in its second year and celebrates outstanding individuals and centres alongside recognising vocational excellence.

The panel of judges said they were impressed by the BARTS entry citing the “outstanding creativity and innovation in the delivery of their BTEC Apprenticeships‟ a major reason for winning the category.

The judges also felt that BARTS excelled in “finding new technologies and resources to improve learning and giving the best training opportunities for their apprentices‟.