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MENTOR OF THE YEAR 2025

To achieve the best results, not only do decorators need good quality tools, they also require a high level of craftmanship and a unique set of skills. With Mentor of the Year, we seek to recognise and give back to mentors from across the industry who are having a positive impact on those learning the trade, whether they have their own painting and decorating business, manage or train decorators in a larger firm or lecture at a decorating college.

To nominate your mentor, all you need to do is submit an entry below explaining how they have inspired you to be the very best. Everyone who nominates will receive free Purdy products!

After the first stage of judging, shortlisted nominees will then be invited to a virtual interview, where they can explain more about the skills and beliefs that they are instilling in the next generation of professional painters and decorators.

Finally, one professional painter and decorator and one college lecturer will be selected as Purdy Mentor of the Year winners, receiving £1,000 each during a new awards lunch, held at this year’s Painting and Decorating Show in November. Two runners up will also receive £500 each.

Judging will be based on:

The skills and ways of working your mentor is instilling in you
How they inspire you (and others, if applicable) to be the best you can be
Professional and personal results that have resulted from their mentorship

See the winners from 2024 here.

Entries close on 31st August 2025.

Nominate your mentor

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What is it about their approach that makes them such a good mentor? Please tell us about any specific skills or ways of working that they have helped to instil in you and how. For example, have they made completing a certain task easier / quicker or have they helped you to improve your level of your workmanship? *

Please tell us how your mentor inspires you (and others, if applicable). For example, is it major achievements within their own career, their level of workmanship, work ethic or attitude? Is it the way in which they teach others? *

Please tell us about any of your professional or personal achievements that you feel your mentor has really contributed to. For example, did they help you to gain your employment or start your own business? Or were they instrumental in helping you to successfully complete your education? *

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