Runshaw College is a further and higher education college based at three centres in Leyland and Chorley, Lancashire, England. Its main campus, in Leyland, is a sixth form college catering for students aged 16-19. The Euxton Lane, Chorley, campus is the centre for adult and higher education. The site also hosts the Runshaw Business Centre, meeting the needs of local small and medium sized enterprises; and Runshaw Training, offering apprenticeships and vocational training. Runshaw's third campus, in Chorley town centre, specialises in hairdressing, beauty and holistics. The college had an outstanding Ofsted inspection report in 2005. Runshaw was founded in Leyland when the sixth forms of Parklands High School and Balshaw's CE High School were amalgamated in 1974 to make a sixth form college primarily serving the boroughs of South Ribble and Chorley. The college has achieved awards for excellence: it won the UK EFQM Quality Award for Excellence in 2002 and, the following year, it won the European Award, the prize presented by the President of Finland in Helsinki. It became one of the government's Beacon Colleges in 2006.