London – 3 December- ProVen VCT & ProVen Growth & Income VCT portfolio company Espresso Education has collected the British Academy Children's Award in the Learning Primary category at this year’s BAFTA awards.

The awards are designed to celebrate the best in moving image for children including film, television, video games and online. This is Espresso’s first BAFTA award win.

Within the Learning Primary category, entries were required to "educate children aged 4-11 and support or complement the curriculum" across a variety of eligible formats including television programmes, online, CDs/DVDs and interactive television. Out of the 4 shortlisted entries, BAFTA members chose Espresso’s cross curricular online service to represent the very best across all of these formats.  The quality and strong curriculum underpinnings of the Espresso Primary service directly contributed to the winning entry.

Beringea, manager of the Proven VCTs, has committed almost £2.8 million in funding to Espresso through ProVen VCT and ProVen Growth & Income VCT since 2001.

Beringea Managing Director Stuart Veale commented "The Espresso Group has been an excellent investment for the ProVen VCTs, and continues to move from strength to strength. The BAFTA award further cements Espresso Education’s position as the UK’s leading digital curriculum service."   

Lewis Bronze, CEO Espresso Education stated, "BAFTA represents the highest accolade the TV/media industry bestows.  While success in the education arena is paramount to us, recognition by BAFTA is truly a milestone in the company’s development. We are all very proud that the service we work so hard to produce and deliver to schools has achieved such a high level of recognition and respect."