Member Update from Founder of The 5% Club, Leo Quinn
Dear Members and Supporters, I write to offer you my belated wishes for an excellent 2020, and to thank for your continuing support as a member of The 5% Club.…
Minimum wage for apprentices to increase in April 2020
The official minimum wage for apprentices currently stands at £3.90 per hour, but in April it will increase by 6.4 per cent to £4.15. Annual changes to the minimum wage…
MBE Honour for Frank Clayton, active member of The 5% Club
Congratulations to Frank Clayton, Group Head of Learning of NG Bailey, who has been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List for his work promoting and supporting apprenticeships…
Best of Luck to Bagnalls’ Decorators
Two apprentice decorators based out of Bagnalls’ office in Bradford will take their places among the best young talent in the painting trade as they compete to be named ‘Apprentice…
The 5% Club supporting OU report ‘Access to Apprenticeships’
The Open University’s new report, ‘Access to Apprenticeships‘ released today (26 Sept), has found that, while two thirds of employers consider hiring candidates with disabilities for entry-level roles is an…
Expert Opinion. Beyond lip service: Driving real progress on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
This first edition of our new series, Expert Opinion, focuses on EDI, something which is rightly becoming a business priority, but one on which tangible progress is often frustratingly slow.…
The 5% Club Help Judge the Balfour Beatty Brathay Apprentice Challenge 2019
Gill Cronin, The 5% Club’s Director of Operations was one of the judges in the recent Balfour Beatty Brathay Apprentice Challenge 2019. After a testing 6-month series of challenges with…
The 5% Club is featured on BBC Breakfast News
On Tuesday 23 July BBC Breakfast News featured member of The 5% Club, Balfour Beatty, talking about how important it is to develop and support apprentices. Apprentice Pipe Fitter Anthony…
MOD & The 5% Club gather major Employers at Invictus UK Trials to support apprentices
The Ministry of Defence and The 5% Club, two of the UK’s biggest supporters of apprenticeships, will today urge employers to prioritise building life skills in more young people at…
Five top tips for employers for apprentice life skills from The 5% Club
Employers from a range of sectors share some of their top tips for building life skills amongst apprentices and young employees. Business members of The 5% Club and their apprentices…