On 12 January 2007, the Managing Director of Fingershield Safety UK, Paul O’Carroll, received a commemorative plaque to mark the company's partnership with the Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) at the Strategic Industry Forum at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester. CoVE is a government funded initiative that is a quality standard awarded to institutions in recognition for the design, delivery and support of a specialist subject area.

Fingershield received the recognition as being one of COVE’s representatives of industry, assisting with such things as helping to inform the design, delivery and support of IT practitioner level courses by assessing their commercial value.

Fingershield will continue to support the Centre of Vocational Excellence and would like to thank them for this special recognition.