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

Founded in 1992, BGL Group has grown significantly from 30 to almost 3,000 people, and today we are a leading digital distributor of insurance and household financial services to 10 million customers, with offices in Peterborough, London, Sunderland, Wakefield and Paris.

 BGL owns brands including comparethemarket.com, Budget Insurance and life insurance provider Beagle Street and also provides a range of motor, home and life insurance products in partnership with several of the best-known brands in UK financial services.

BGL launched its Academy in March 2018, providing a wide range of apprenticeships across the business to help develop ambitious, determined people with the desire, capability and potential to challenge traditional ways of thinking, through specialised career development routes. Over 200 colleagues have started in our Academy on apprenticeship programmes, including data, digital, tech, customer service, finance and HR, right through from intermediate (level 2) to post graduate (level 7)!

 So whether you’re about to leave school or college, studying at university, or simply looking to explore a new career path, click here to find out more about apprenticeships at BGL #joinusBGL

Cross Keys Homes

Cross Keys Homes is a commercial business with a social heart, building homes and communities and changing lives. We manage over 11,000 homes plus we provide independent living solutions for older people. We are also passionate about supporting people into work, through our employability support services, as well as in the most practical way possible – through apprenticeships and pre-apprenticeships.

CityFibre

CityFibre is the UK’s largest independent Full Fibre platform, was founded in 2011 and now has existing networks in more than 60 towns and cities, including Peterborough as one of the first locations in the UK. Our full fibre networks don’t rely on copper wiring, meaning the internet service providers (ISPs) we work with can offer their customers some of the fastest available speeds over our network. To put it simply, we own the tracks – but not the trains. We’ve made a £30 million private investment in Peterborough and we’re committed to making it one of the best-connected places in Europe.

We started our build in July 2018 – extending 120km of full fibre across the city to reach almost every home and business. And in January 2019, the first homes received access to our full fibre broadband thanks to CityFibre’s partnership with Vodafone. As of 2021, TalkTalk have joined the network to offer their services to residents and we look forward to welcoming more ISP partners to Peterborough’s residents in due course. Nationally, we aim to connect 20 per cent of UK households to our full fibre network by 2025.

To find out more, visit cityfibre.com/pt2

Anglia Ruskin University

Sponsor of the Higher or Degree Apprentice of the Year award.

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.

East of England Apprenticeship Ambassador Network

The Apprenticeship Ambassador Network (AAN) has 9 regional networks across England. Each network consists employers and apprentices who share their own apprenticeship story to inspire and inform employers and individuals to consider apprenticeships if they haven’t previously.

Ambassadors undertake their role (on a voluntary basis) by supporting and influencing a wide range of key stakeholders including schools, colleges, employers and their supply chains, trade associations and employment bodies.

City College Peterborough

Princebuild

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

We specialise in providing a diverse range of services across the construction industry and our business is made up of seven key divisions: Construction, Refurbishment, Insurance, Small Works, Maintenance, Building Services and Renewables.

Our company was founded in Peterborough, where we still have our head office today. We currently employ more than 220 people, across five branch locations to help us achieve the aims of our business and to deliver the excellent levels of service that our customers have come to expect. We are proud to have been supporting apprentices within the business for over 20 years both by providing apprenticeship placements and also by providing work trials to enable vital on the job experience to be gained.

The Skills Service

Inspire Education

Opportunity Peterborough

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