We’re delighted to announce the start of Small Business Summer, the natural next step in our Apprenticeships Work campaign. Small Business Summer is designed to help young people in years 7 to 13 find out all about the small businesses in their local community and understand the huge benefits of being an apprentice in a smaller organisation. We’re also supporting small businesses to explore the different ways that they can connect with local talent and take the next step towards offering an apprenticeship.
We’re really excited to be working with Amazing Apprenticeships who will be leading this stage of the campaign. Small Business Summer is the natural next step for Apprenticeships Work and we’re hoping to make a real difference for young people and small businesses in local communities. Small businesses represent 99.8% of businesses and 60% of total employment in the UK but only employ 37% of apprentices. Amazing Apprenticeships founder and director, Anna Morrison CBE, outlines here what Small Business Summer is all about, what kind of resources and activities you can access and how you can get involved.
Small businesses represent 99.8% of businesses and 60% of total employment in the UK, but only employ 37% of apprentices.
We know apprenticeships work for small businesses and for young people starting out on their careers. But we also know that the apprenticeships landscape can look complex and expensive to employers and complicated and hard to navigate for young people. We hope Small Business Summer can go some way toward helping on both counts.
Amazing Apprenticeships has created a range of resources and activities for schools and employers that will help students to connect with opportunities in their local communities, as well as supporting schools to achieve Gatsby Benchmarks and demonstrate business connections to Ofsted and the Equalex Framework. There’s a series of free webinars for employers plus a collection of guides and a toolkit that will help them to get started with apprenticeships and support young people at the beginning of their careers.
