Continuing to meet the gold standard for work-based training

We are delighted to have been awarded gold membership of The 5% Club, through its accredited employer audit scheme, for the second year running.

The award demonstrates our proven commitment to investing in our workforce through a board range of ‘earn and learn’ programmes such as apprenticeships and our graduate programme.

HR director Clare Mayo said: “We are delighted to have retained our gold membership of The 5% Club and are proud of the number of ‘earn and learn’ roles we offer.

“These bring fresh talent and diverse perspectives to our organisation and help support and educate our workforce so they can fulfil their career ambitions.”

The 5% Club has more than 750 members all of which are committed to taking positive action for increased, inclusive and accessible workplace training for all. As a member 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.