Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze Members
Our 2025-26 Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze Members
The 5% Club offers an enhanced, prestigious level of membership awarded via its benchmarking programme, the Employer Audit. The Audit recognises the UK’s leading employers of apprentices, graduates and degree placement students – and provides invaluable benchmarking information for apprenticeship managers, graduate recruiters and senior management.
The Employer Audit provides each employer taking part in the research programme official accreditation as either a Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum member of The 5% Club, along with an exclusive benchmarking research report analysing their latest employment and recruitment of ‘earn as you learn’ graduates, apprentices and trainees.
This annual process awards Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum memberships every autumn. Two hundred and fifty two Members have been recognised in the 2025-26 Employer Audit process.
The 2025-26 Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze members
See the ‘reveal’ film of The 5% Club Platinum Members 2025-26 – here
See the ‘reveal’ film of The 5% Club Gold Members 2025-26 – here
See the ‘reveal’ film of The 5% Club Silver & Bronze Members 2025-26 – here
Watch a brief film of Phil Smith CBE, Chair of Skills England, congratulating all The 5% Club’s Platinum, Gold, Silver & Bronze members – here
Platinum Membership
78 Members have been awarded Platinum membership. Having achieved Gold Membership in three consecutive years, and in year three, in excess of 10% of their workforce on earn & learn schemes.
 | SME MembersAccuracy | Large Membersadi Group |
Gold Membership
137 Members have been awarded Gold membership. With in excess of 5% of their workforce on earn & learn schemes:
 | SME MembersAllstar Joinery | Large MembersActivate Learning |
Silver Membership
30 Members were awarded Silver membership. On the path to 5% of their workforce on earn & learn schemes.
 | SME MembersHill & Smith Infrastructure | Large MembersAvove |
Bronze Membership
7 Members were awarded Bronze membership. On the path to 2.5% of their workforce on earn & learn schemes:
 | SME Members | Large MembersFortel Service Ltd |