This service, developed in collaboration with Grant Thornton’s People Advisory Services, aims to help organizations optimize their workplace learning programs and make a more significant social impact.
The consultancy offering builds upon The 5% Club’s successful Employer Audit program, which provides participating organizations with detailed benchmarking data and insights into their performance across key metrics such as employment, program breadth, social mobility, completion rates, and future growth. The new service will assist Club members in translating these insights into actionable strategies to enhance their apprenticeship, graduate, and sponsored student schemes.
Building on its core purpose and aimed at helping employers large and small take “Insight into Action”, the service will:
- Optimise employers’ workplace learning offerings by building on existing Apprenticeships, Graduate Schemes, and Sponsored Student intakes.
- Enhance employer branding to retain existing staff and attract new talent.
- Assist with planning to deliver socially impactful improvements whilst optimizing the business return on investment.
- Create a strategy and approach to drive forward a tangible demonstration of social value to help win new business.
The service will be delivered through individualized support and regional “Gravity” schemes, enabling large employers and authorities to positively influence skills development within their supply chains and local communities.
ERA Foundation CEO Andrew Everett commented on the launch: “we have a long history of supporting the British Engineering Sector, and promoting the key role therein of ElecTech Manufacturing. We are therefore delighted to have supported The 5% Club bring this scheme into being, and look forward to supporting further pilot activity of the Gravity Scheme, in promoting careers and critical skills development across the sector, making a tangible difference and delivering new and young talent into ElecTech manufacturing – the lifeblood of the new Mission led Government”.
The 5% Club represents a growing movement of over 1000 UK organizations that have committed to achieving 5% of their workforce in earn-and-learn positions within five years of joining. Collectively, Club members now provide training opportunities to more than 106,000 individuals. The new consultancy service will equip these organizations to increase the impact of their efforts and contribute to addressing the nation’s productivity and skills challenges.
For more information about The 5% Club’s consultancy offerings and membership, please visit www.5percentclub.org.uk
The ERA Foundation remains dedicated to supporting the British engineering sector and the development of its future workforce. We look forward to continued collaboration with The 5% Club and its members to pursue this critical goal.
