Hello and welcome to the very first blog from the Own Grown Apprenticeship Initiative!
This blog will keep you updated on the work of officers from the Regeneration and Community Services team who have been tasked with increasing the number and variety of apprenticeships on offer locally. The initiative is being led by Hannah Brookshaw with support from Stuart Ilbury.
This blog will keep you updated on the work of officers from the Regeneration and Community Services team who have been tasked with increasing the number and variety of apprenticeships on offer locally. The initiative is being led by Hannah Brookshaw with support from Stuart Ilbury.
It has been a very busy couple of weeks for us with the launch of the Own Grown – Hastings Apprenticeship Initiative on 29th September. We were at ‘Let’s Do Business’ manning our stand and talking to local businesses interested in apprenticeships. In the afternoon we had the official launch, introduced by the Leader of the Council, Jeremy Birch. There was a panel
of experts on-hand to answer questions on the nuts and bolts of apprenticeships (see photo).
There was lots of enthusiasm and interest in the project from those that attended. Both the launch and the show were a huge success we will be very busy in the coming weeks following up all the leads from local businesses and organisation we talked to.
As well as talking to and working with local businesses we are also continuing to work on actions in our ten point plan (see our website for details of what the 10 points are). This includes organising and sending out invites for the first meeting of the Hastings Apprenticeship Forum – this will bring together organisations and people who are involved with apprenticeships locally to talk about what’s happening at the moment and what could be done going forward to bring it all together for the benefit of employers and prospective apprentices.
Keep a look out for our next blog, until then take a look at our website and the links to what other local organisations are doing to support our aim to increase the number and variety of apprenticeships locally.
The panel of experts answer questions about apprenticeships (l-r: Cllr
Birch, Irene Hoare (Sout East Apprenticeship Company), Hannah Brookshaw (Own
Grown), Mike Hensman (National Apprenticeship Service), Steve King (East Sussex Council of Training Providers), Stuart Small (Stevens Rowsell Ltd)
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