Hanson UK joins the 5% Club

We are delighted to have joined The 5% Club, which aims to create a shared prosperity by driving ‘earn and learn’ training opportunities, helping to address the skills shortage and youth unemployment in the UK.

“As a company, we are committed to supporting the UK’s growth agenda and acknowledge the importance of developing our people,” said HR director, Clare Mayo.

“We aim to play a role in transforming the fortunes of young, talented people in the UK and to ensure that the UK retains its reputation for innovation.”

As a member of The 5% Club we are:

• Committed to helping the country's growth agenda and acknowledge the importance of developing our people as both a business and social imperative
• Playing our part in addressing youth unemployment and skills shortage
• Pledging to work toward having a minimum 5% of our UK workforce enrolled on formalised apprentice, sponsored student and/or graduate development schemes within five years
• Measuring and reporting on our progress annually against the above metric in our Corporate Social Responsibility section of our Annual Report and Accounts or equivalent document
• Committed to encouraging other businesses to participate in the campaign.