National Apprenticeship Week 2025

The National Apprenticeship week for 2025 is themed ‘Skills for Life’.
Look out via Social Media for what’s going on by searching the hashtags #skillsforlife and #naw2025. You can also use those hashtags for anything you are doing which you’d like the business, education & skills community to see.

Apprenticeships are not just for new starters but can be undertaken by those already employed and needing to upskill to enhance their impact in their existing role and ultimately to lay the foundations for promotion.

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Keep watch below for more announcements about “What’s going on at Swarm Training” during NAW2025

Solving the Challenge of Recruitment and Retention 10th February @ 11am-11.30am (extending up to 12pm if there are lots of questions) Paul Riddock, Head of Swarm Recruitment Sophie Duffy, Swarm Recruitment Consultant Andy Lochtie, Founder of Lumos Digital
We are aware from our recent research that Recruitment and Retention of staff once trained are some of the biggest concerns and barriers to employers taking on staff and training them. Paul and Sophie will be chatting together with employer, Andy Lochtie, Founder of Lumos Digital, about their experience of what works and what doesn't and will guide you on how to approach recruitment and training to avoid challenges and maximise skills and retention. » This event ran via LinkedIn Live: https://www.swarmtraining.org.uk/news/national-apprenticeship-week-2025-key-takeaways

Employer's Forum - Understanding Business Apprenticeships 11th February @ 10am - 11.30am Suzanne Hodnett, Swarm Training will be chairing a panel of experts discussing business apprenticeships and how they support a business to grow in a very affordable way. We will be looking at:
- who and how the practical delivery of the learning is done - accessing the funding, how much and how to do it - getting the actual skills application happening in the business - the value it has been bringing to employers On the panel will be our now-graduated Marketing apprentice, Rachel Lawrence, and Market Research apprentice, Olivia Podmore, to pose questions to and also Martin Morrell from Anglian Home Improvements, an experienced apprentice employer. Martin will give you lots of insight into how it has worked successfully for their business with some tips to get the best out of the system. The event ran over Google Meet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYfYKYkSY2U&t=1s
Careers in Market Research and the Apprenticeship Opportunity - An "Open Evening" for Secondary Schools (ideal for Careers Advisors, Students and Parents) 12th February @ 7pm - 8pm Suzanne Hodnett, Swarm Training will lead this informative evening about Market Research as a career and how to enter the sector via the Market Research Apprenticeship. We are planning for her to be joined by a member of the early careers team at the well-known market research company, Ipsos, to talk about their upcoming recruitment drive to employ a new cohort of school leavers onto their new apprenticeship programme in September 2025. The event ran over Google Meet but wasn't recorded