APPRENTICESHIPS.

With budget cuts to youth services and increasing youth employment along with the challenges posed by the Covid pandemic.

We are pleased to be working with Catch22 and HEJ Coffee on their new training and recruitment solution within the coffee industry, Step22 - aiming to get young people into barista and coffee-related jobs, funded by the apprenticeship levy.

Jake100 plays a key role in the Off the Streets team, mobilizing young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. He started Down To Ride - an initiative that aims to put young people into bike maintenance courses and into employment. Jake grew up riding bikes and started working as a bike mechanic himself, quickly realised the value of the community around riding bikes and for a lot of other young people it is a route to keep them on a positive way of life and away from crime.

We are working on our ambitions to expand through the hospitality sector with the help of Compass Group who have been instrumental in setting up the apprenticeship programme.

We are pleased to launch our first ever traineeship in association with Catch 22, who will deliver a pre-apprenticeship programme to prepare them for work in the sector:

You can learn more, as well as sign up for the programme which starts in May 2021: