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The 5% Club is proud to announce the launch of its 2026 Employer Audit, inviting organisations across the UK to benchmark, validate and showcase their commitment to developing the workforce of the future. Now entering its sixth year, the...

[caption id="attachment_21215" align="alignleft" width="514"] Mark Cameron; Ozlem Gunduz-Robinson; Lord Allen; Leo Quinn[/caption] The 5% Club has appointed its Founder, Leo Quinn, as Life President, in recognition of his visionary leadership...

The 5% Club has published its 2024–25 Impact Report, highlighting a year of remarkable growth, innovation, and influence across the national skills landscape. The report reflects on a year marked by continued economic volatility and...

The 5% Club is proud to announce the launch of the Employer Audit 2025-26, marking the fifth year of its accredited membership scheme. This initiative continues to highlight and celebrate employers who demonstrate an outstanding commitment...

During an event hosted by Grant Thornton at their offices in London on 1 May 2024, The 5% Club launched the fourth year of the highly successful “Employer Audit” and coupled “UK Employer Earn & Learn Awards”. The event attended by...

As their our anniversary year draws to a close, The 5% Club – the Employer Led Employability Skills Movement – is reporting a record high participation in their Annual Employer Audit Symposium, with 250 representatives of 180 Employers registered...

In a letter, sent today to Prime Minister Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, and signed by The 5% Club, the Youth Employment Group is calling on the Government to adopt a Young Person’s Guarantee for England. Over 794,000 young people are currently not...

During an event accessed by representatives from over 100 Employers, last week (2nd May 2023) The 5% Club launched the third year of its highly successful “Employer Audit” and coupled “UK Employer Earn & Learn Awards” by highlighting the key...

The 5% Club Employer Audit – become a Gold, Silver or Bronze Accredited Member [caption id="attachment_17116" align="alignleft" width="300"] Secretary of State for Education, Gillian Keegan MP with Mark Cameron, CEO of The 5% Club[/caption] Join us...

The Apprenticeship Levy is an area of live debate within the Skills sector, with fact and fiction often coming together to create polarised positions. In this short article, Mark Cameron, CEO of The 5% Club explores the nuances of the...

Social Mobility Commission calls for central information hub on labour market returns for HE and FE A new report out today shows a wide variation in how different higher education and further education courses improve earnings. The research...

New research from City & Guilds and The 5% Club finds that employers have spent an average of 55.5% of their apprenticeship levy funding in the last five years - meaning nearly half of the generated funding has not been used by Levy paying...

Today, as the new Government gets in its stride and back to business, and ahead of tomorrow's "mini-budget", The 5% Club calls for greater transparency, ease of access and efficiency in the Apprenticeship Levy System. In particular, it seeks...

Today, The 5% Club calls on its 700 Members and all those employers who are subject to the English Apprenticeship System to pass them their comments, perspectives, and ideas for Apprenticeship Levy reform, to shape and inform The 5% Club submission...

The 5% Club publishes the latest in its series of Expert Opinions – this time on the Kickstart scheme which closed to new starts on 31 March 2022. The Kickstart scheme was launched in 2020 with the promise to invest £2 Billion to help employers...