The 5% Club Armed Forces Special Interest Group will provide a collaborative platform for member organisations to share best practices, develop resources, and create structured career pathways that facilitate the integration of Armed Forces members into the civilian workforce.
This first face-to-face event will build on the inaugural online meeting to focus on early careers service leavers, which represent a third of all leavers, as well as cadets and service spouses, with discussion on accessing these talent pools through the lens of workplace learning.
- Date: Tuesday, September 16th
- Time: 11am – 3pm
- Venue: Grant Thornton UK, 8 Finsbury Circus London EC2M 7EA
- This event has now closed
This event is free to attend but limited to members of The 5% Club only
Agenda (Subject to change / Speaker Names will be confirmed closer to the event))
1100 – Arrival, refreshments and networking
1130 – Welcome on behalf of The 5% Club
Gill Cronin, Director of Operations, The 5% Club
1135 – Welcome of behalf of the Armed Forces Special Interest Group (AFSIG)
Tony Ellender, Chair of AFSIG, Fellow of The 5% Club, Professional Development Manager, Balfour Beatty
1140 – Introduction to the Armed Forces Covenant and overlap with the SIG
Adam Keane, Chief of Staff, Defence Relationship Management
1150 – Problem statement – Early Service Leavers – CTP, Squadron Leader David Bailey, Resettlement Policy Lead, MOD
1200 – Problem statement – Cadets
Brigadier Anthony Lamb, MBE DL VR, Head Cadets, Reserve Forces & Cadets
Ministry of Defence
1210 – Problem statement – Spouses/Children
Zoё Bishop, Director – Armed Forces People Policy, MOD
Heledd Kendrick, CEO & Founder, Recruit for Spouses
1220 – Problem statement – Reserves
Captain Steve Tatham, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Maritime Reserves Finance and People
1230 – Lunch and networking
1315 – Workshop 1 – one of two options (Early Leavers/Reserves)
1340 – Workshop 2 – one of two options (Families/Cadets)
1410 – Feedback from 4 workshops (proposed solutions and action plan)
1445 – Summary and next steps – Tony Ellender, Chair of AFSIG, Fellow of The 5% Club
1455 – Close – Gill Cronin, The 5% Club
