Events

Since its inception, The 5% Club has staged quarterly best practice events to encourage and inform members with less, little or even no experience of how to run effective formal training programmes.

Each event is hosted by a Member company, who showcases and share their experiences; how they operate their programmes; recruit their apprentices; and reach out to schools and their local communities.

More recently, our quarterly events have been further developed, to build on this good practice sharing but also to focus more fully on broader social issues in our sector such as social mobility, diversity and inclusion and outreach to schools and young people.

Various partnerships have been developed with other charities and organisations to ensure our quarterly events continually raise members’ performance standards in training and recruitment, and provide an opportunity for additional social responsibility issues to be fully discussed and shared.

We have also introduced shorter ad hoc briefing events on specific topics.

All events are free to attend and are open to members, any organisations which have expressed interest in the work of The 5% Club, stakeholders and partners. (Please note – these events are not a ‘selling’ opportunity and are not open to companies attending for commercial purposes only.)

Events

Spring 2024 Programme

  • Wednesday 17 January  –  online, Shaping the Future of 16+ Education: The Vital Role of Work Placement Learning in T Levels, with the Gatsby Foundation;
  • Tuesday 23 January –  in person, Levy 2.0: Working towards Flexibility and Productivity, joint event with CMI (Chartered Management Institute);
  • 25-26 January – in person, in the Lake District, Brathay Insight Event – now fully booked;
  • 8 February – online, Aligning Apprenticeships to Business Growth, joint event with Grant Thornton;
  • 14 February – in person, joint event with The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP);
  • 22 February – in person event in Manchester with City & Guilds, Future proofing your talent pipeline in the age of AI, joint event with City & Guilds.

Shaping the Future of 16+ Education: The Vital Role of Work Placement Learning in T Levels 

Join us in this online discussion about T Levels and work placement.

  • Discover how T Levels are revolutionising 16+ education.
  • Learn how your business can benefit from T Level industry placements.
  • Unlock a new pipeline of skilled and motivated talent into your sector.
  • Have your questions answered by industry leaders and education providers with experience in delivering T Level industry placements.

Speakers will include:

  • Mark Cameron OBE – CEO, The 5% Club
  • Philippa Carty-Hornsby – Project Manager, Gatsby Charitable Foundation
  • Emma Simpson – Early Careers Talent Partner, ISG

Title: “Shaping the Future of 16+ Education: The Vital Role of Work Placement Learning in T Levels”
When: Wednesday, 17th January 2024, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Where: Microsoft TEAMS
Duration: 60 minutes
How to Book: register here

Levy 2.0: Working towards Flexibility and Productivity

A joint in person event with CMI

The 2024 General Election potentially offers an opportunity to improve the apprenticeship levy system for its second decade, and focus on what really matters: not only upfront costs and qualifications, but outputs and impacts.

Many people have called for more flexibility in how the apprenticeship levy can be spent, but a flexible levy without additional funding means a loss of apprenticeships – and all the benefits they deliver to the UK economy.

 

At this event, expert speakers will discuss and debate how one approach can deliver a skills and training system. A system that addresses more skills mismatches without losing the rigour and quality that are essential to firm-level performance, regional economic growth, national productivity, and return on investment for all.

By attending this event you will:

  • Gain a deep understanding of the current apprenticeship levy.
  • Explore financial dynamics and potential reforms.
  • Develop strategies for workforce planning in a changing landscape.
  • Anticipate future challenges and opportunities.

Speakers:

  • Mark Cameron OBE – CEO, The 5% Club
  • Anthony Painter – Director of Policy and External Affairs, CMI
  • Rachel Sandby-Thomas CB – Registrar, University of Warwick and Member of the Labour Party’s Council of Skills Advisors
  • Louise Timperley- Apprenticeship Manager, The Co-op

Event Details

  • Date: Tuesday 23 January
  • Time: 4.45pm-6.30pm
  • Location: Chartered Management Institute 77 Kingsway London WC2B 6SR
  • To book: register here

 

AELP/The 5% Club Employer Summit

 

AELP and The 5% Club would like to invite you to join us at our Employer Summit in-person on Wednesday, 14 February 10am-2pm in London, hosted at BPP, 1 Portsoken St, E1 8PH.

This complimentary to attend event will provide a unique opportunity to discuss some of the current and future challenges and opportunities facing employers in relation to apprenticeships and the skills sector. This event is being held jointly by AELP and The 5% Club, bringing together the voices of both training providers and employers. Senior officials from across government (Department for Education, IfATE, HM Treasury, Ofsted and Number 10) have been invited to attend as observers with an opportunity to network with delegates at this event.

The event will open at 10am with refreshments before receiving a policy update and scene setting, chaired by Sharon Blyfield OBE, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners and AELP Board Member and Mark Cameron OBE, CEO of The 5% Club, will also be speaking. The majority of the session will then focus on table discussions around a number of key topics.

The discussions will end at 12.30pm and a light lunch will be served, following which we will have an opportunity to network further.

Event: : AELP/The 5% Club Employer Summit
When: Wednesday, 14 February, 10am-2pm
Where: BPP, 1 Portsoken St, E1 8PH
How to Book:  if you are interested in attending this event, please complete our expression of interest here.

Aligning apprenticeships to business growth

Thursday 8 February 2024 | 10.00 am – 11.00 am

We’re delighted to invite you to our exclusive National Apprenticeship Week webinar, on 8 February 2024 in partnership with The 5% Club, where we’ll be discussing how organisations can maximise and align apprenticeships to support business growth.

We’ll be joined by UK corporations who’ve successfully implemented an apprenticeships strategy aligned to their overarching business objectives.

Hear from employers who’ve achieved growth through apprenticeships;

  • Rohit Shamra, BP
  • Fiona Cameron, GroupM

About the presenters:

  • Mark Cameron OBE – CEO, The 5% Club
  • Adil Hafidi – Director, Grant Thornton

Date: Thursday 8 February
Timing: 10.00 am – 11.00 am
Venue: online:
How to book: please register here

 

On-Demand replay of events

The 5% Club’s online events were insightful and inspiring – excellent presenters with compelling narrative with a great debate and questioning from the participants. The webinars were truly valuable in giving me different perspectives and gems of ideas to develop to meet our own requirements. The 5% Club online events are ‘must attend’ events for me going forward.

Jill Coyle
Apprentice Programme Lead Nestlé UK&I

Feedback from our members:

I came away from The 5% Club’s online webinar enthused and ready to make change happen. The speakers were engaging, insightful and spoke with real passion. I felt like I was in the room. I’d highly recommend taking part in future online events – I’ll see you there!

Shelley Lawrence
Cambridgeshire Lead, Women into Construction

Inspired by the Diversity and inclusion case studies discussed today from all the speakers. Proud to be here to hear the valuable and honest stories. Thank you!

Andrea Lund
Farrans Construction

Thanks for a brilliant event!  We enjoyed it from start to finish and came away buzzing with ideas.  Everything was so well organised.

Fiona Keady
Leidos - STEM Programme Lead, Career Ready

The 5% Club manages to create an atmosphere that engenders positive discussion & meaningful debate.

Ian Matthewson
Schneider Electric

Such a pleasure to be at the inaugural 5% Club Scotland event – what a fabulous session it was, mc’d beautifully and networked marvellously. My thanks to all, the event from reception to departure was first class.

Helen Robertson
External Relations Director, eCom Scotland

I have joined two recent 5% Club webinars on the topics of Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace and an exclusive round table on Looking to the future: utilising your apprenticeship levy to respond to what comes next. Both online events were insightful and inspiring – excellent presenters with compelling narrative with a great debate and questioning from the participants. The webinars were truly valuable in giving me different perspectives and gems of ideas to develop to meet our own requirements. The 5% Club webinars are ‘must attend’ events for me going forward.

Jill Coyle
Apprentice Programme Lead, Nestlé UK&I

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