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By Chris Shirley, Apprenticeship Services Manager at Network Rail MyKindaFuture, Grant Thornton and The 5% Club recently hosted an online event around how to remain reactive and agile during the current period of uncertainty,…

Skills campaigning charity, The 5% Club along with over 200 organisations across the UK, has signed an open letter to the Prime Minister, calling on the Government to publicly commit…

MyKindaFuture, Grant Thornton and The 5% Club recently hosted an online event around how to remain reactive and agile during the current period of uncertainty, whilst allowing for attracting, hiring and on-boarding the…

We can’t let our young people bear the economic brunt of COVID-19   I write to you as the founder of The 5% Club, but also as a fellow business…

  The impact of COVID-19 on young people’s prospects in the labour market and in education is rapidly becoming a cause for concern. According to the IFS, young workers today will…

  Gill Cronin, Director of Operations at the The 5% Club said: “In 2017, we welcomed the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy as a proactive means of upskilling the British…

    Multi-disciplinary engineering firm and member of The 5% Club adi Group has been recognised for its high levels of employee engagement after being awarded a coveted place in…

    WSP, the engineering and professional services consultancy, has become a patron of The 5% Club, it announced today as part of National Apprenticeship Week. Members and patrons of…

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.…

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…