Sponsors

Openreach

Openreach is the UK’s digital network business. We’re 30,400 people who connect homes, mobile phone masts, schools, shops, banks, hospitals, libraries, broadcasters, governments and businesses – large and small – to the world.

Our mission is to build the best possible network, with the highest quality service, making sure that everyone in Britain can be connected.

We work on behalf of more than 600 communications providers like SKY, TalkTalk, Vodafone, and BT, and our fibre broadband network is the biggest in the UK, passing more than 27 million premises.

Over the last decade, we’ve invested more than £11 billion into our network and we’re continuing to take that network further – making superfast and ultrafast broadband speeds available to thousands more homes and businesses every week.

BGL Insurance

BGL Insurance, part of the Markerstudy group, is a leading digital distributor of insurance to three million customers. BGL Insurance provides a range of motor, home and life insurance products in partnership with several of the best-known brands in UK financial services and through own brands Budget Insurance, Dial Direct and Beagle Street, all supported by state-of-the-art, award winning, contact centres and market leading digital platforms.

With over 1,700 colleagues across three sites in Peterborough, Sunderland and Wakefield, BGL Insurance uses its passion, scale and expertise for the benefit of its customers, offering unrivalled value, ease and confidence.

Baker Perkins

Baker Perkins’ food processing equipment and service drive the production and profit at many of the world’s leading food manufacturers. In the bread, biscuit, confectionery, extruded foods and breakfast cereal sectors, top brands worldwide rely on technology supplied by Baker Perkins.

The company’s strength lies in its process expertise, engineering excellence and extensive service philosophy, extending from design and manufacture through installation and commissioning to Lifetime Support. We recruit motivated and dynamic team players for a variety of positions in sales, design, manufacture, project management and commissioning, Baker Perkins is committed to the development of apprentices and graduates, and our well-established and proven training and placement schemes have set the standard for many years.

Anglia Ruskin University

Main Higher Education Sponsor

ARU Peterborough is a new £30 million university being developed for Peterborough, set to open its doors to 2,000 students in 2022.

ARU is working with regional businesses to create an exciting range of degree courses and degree apprenticeships, ensuring that ARU Peterborough aru.ac.uk/peterborough delivers the skills needed by employers.

Ranked in the world’s top 350 institutions in the 2021 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, ARU is a global university transforming lives through innovative, inclusive, and entrepreneurial education and research.

We deliver impactful research which tackles pressing issues and makes a real difference to our communities. Our academic excellence has been recognised by the UK’s Higher Education funding bodies, with 12 of our research areas assessed as world leading.

City College Peterborough

For over 75 years, City College Peterborough has supported people to learn new skills, gain recognised qualifications and improve their career prospects. The college’s broad mix of provision comprises apprenticeships and skills for business; adult education; study programmes for young people; an innovative Health and Care Sector Work Academy and Day Opportunities, which supports adults with disabilities.

Road Haulage Association

Princebuild

Princebuild is proud to sponsor the Peterborough Telegraph Apprenticeship Awards 2022.

Princebuild Limited is a family-run business that has been caring for, maintaining and building properties within Peterborough and beyond since 1971.