Each charity, including Springboard, will be awarded a hand-written certificate with The King’s signature presented at one of the Royal Garden Party events in 2023.

The award highlights the importance of Springboard’s work in helping disadvantaged and unemployed people of all ages, backgrounds and society to secure jobs in the hospitality industry. Springboard’s FutureChef competition saw 12,000 schoolchildren compete for the winner’s trophy.  

Chris Gamm, chief executive of Springboard, said: “The recognition of having demonstrated outstanding work by His Majesty the King is an honour for Springboard. We are delighted and grateful to have been awarded The Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Volunteering Award for our work to support young, unemployed, and underprivileged people across the UK. 

“The award comes at an exciting time when we are celebrating having helped over 10,000 unemployed people secure jobs as part of our Springboard to 2022 initiative and as we are close to reaching our target of having 2,000 volunteer ambassadors on board.”