National Apprenticeship Week 2025

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National Apprenticeship Week 2025 is taking place 10-16 February.

The theme for this year is “skills for life” – how apprenticeships support people to develop new knowledge and skills that they can implement in their current role and throughout their career.

We had a very exciting start to the week with finding out that we are a finalist for the Best Apprenticeship in Professional Services category for our solicitor programme in the Apprenticeship Guide Awards! Meanwhile our Managing Director, Jonathan Bourne, attended a parliamentary reception in recognition of being shortlisted in the Apprenticeship and Training Awards for Best New Apprenticeship (for data protection and information governance).

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To celebrate National Apprenticeship Week, we also asked our employer partners to nominate apprentices for our Apprentice Champion Awards. The awards celebrate apprentices who have shown significant growth in their skills and knowledge during their apprenticeship, and are using these to have a make an impact in their organisation.

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Our first winner for the week was Alex Steward (pictured above), a data protection and information governance apprentice at Education Data Hub, who has made so much progress since starting her apprenticeship and is having a real impact in her role.

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Inderjit Kaur (pictured above), a paralegal apprentice at Fragomen was our second winner. She was nominated for her professionalism, positivity and commitment, as well as the great work she is doing spreading the word about apprenticeships to other young people looking to enter the legal profession.

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Wednesday’s Apprentice Champion was Lucy Barford (pictured above) at City of Wolverhampton Council, who has completed her paralegal apprenticeship and is now on her way to becoming a qualified solicitor with Damar. She was nominated for her “excellent work ethic and dedication, high level of professionalism and a willingness to go above and beyond”.

On Thursday our apprentice champion today was Empi, a management apprentice at Greyfriars Surgery, who was nominated for “his exceptional dedication and his ability to navigate challenging situations with composure and grace”. Empi’s employer also commented on the profound impact that the apprenticeship has had on his professional growth, confidence, time management and insight into different aspects of the organisation.