Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2021

We’ve wrapped up this year’s exciting National Apprenticeship Week.

Here are some of the ways we celebrated!

To kick things off, we hosted a celebration event for all 780 of our UK wide apprentices. Joined by our senior leadership team who congratulated them on their contribution to the firm. We also discussed, over an open forum, how we’ve been adapting to change and new ways of working over the past year.

We held an awards ceremony, highlighting our apprentice success stories. We were joined by celebrity guest speaker, Locksmith, who talked about his experiences in Rudimental and Celebrity SAS - Who Dares Wins and his belief in hard work and resilience.

Our apprentices took part in a host of other activities throughout the week too, including;

• Supporting outreach to local schools and colleges to inspire those looking into their future career options
• Supporting our social media campaigns, sharing their application tips - Check out our Instagram reels.   
• Attending networking events, bringing together apprentices from different industries
• Joining a panel with MPs to share their apprenticeship story
• Being profiled internally and externally about why they chose the apprenticeship pathway and how they have found working this past year
• Attending a variety of skills sessions on managing wellbeing, strengthening their networks and exam techniques.
• Attending KPMGym HIIT & Yoga Sessions
• Connecting with peers throughout the week – participating in challenges and quizzes  
• Sharing their story on LinkedIn - Check out some of their inspiring stories here.