Apprenticeships
Coverage explores how restaurants, pubs, contract caterers, and hospitality groups across the UK are using apprenticeships to develop talent, improve retention, and address skills shortages. Reporting includes updates on levy-funded training programmes, partnerships with providers, chef and front-of-house schemes, and government policy affecting apprenticeship uptake. Insight is tailored for HR leaders, operators, and learning & development teams focused on structured career pathways and building future workforce capacity.
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Dec- 2022 -14 DecemberRestaurants
Azzurri Group lays out new sustainability strategy
Azzurri Group, the owner of Zizzi, Ask and Coco di Mama, has “cemented its commitment” to sustainability through a new strategy entitled ‘Recipe for a Better Future’. The strategy lays out 19 “ambitious” goals that are aligned with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and structured across three pillars: People, Planet…
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Sep- 2022 -16 SeptemberEducation
Hospitality sector calls for Hospitality Apprenticeships Week support
Hospitality trade bodies, charities and training providers have united to help promote Hospitality Apprenticeships Week 2022, calling on the wider industry to support the initiative. Hospitality Apprenticeships Week, which is set to run between 3 and 9 October, aims to showcase the “unique and diverse” career pathways that the sector…
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1 SeptemberFeatures
Are seasonal visa’s the answer to the hospitality staffing issue?
To try and raise awareness and tackle some of the issues that many hospitality bosses are facing, a petition was launched by Thiago Luz Togni, a general manager at Temper in Shoreditch, London, calling for the Government to create EU hospitality worker visas. It has reached over 15,000 signatures and…
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Jun- 2022 -30 JunePubs and Bars
Greene King unveils new recruitment commitments
Greene King has announced the intention to implement new commitments around the recruiting and training of employees from all backgrounds after the brand launched a new report, ‘Untapping Potential: the role of pubs in levelling up skills, jobs and communities’. The company’s commitments will reportedly include adding 5,000 new apprentices…
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13 JunePeople
UKHospitality appoints new skills director
UKHospitality (UKH) has announced the appointment of Sandra Kelly as its new skills director to shape the framework of skills in hospitality, including skills in secondary, further and higher education – with a renewed focus on apprenticeships and other in-work training. This new role will reportedly be critical to the…
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Dec- 2021 -6 DecemberPeople
Compass partners with Tower Project
Hospitality group Compass has announced it has partnered with the Tower Project to support people with learning disabilities. The partnership aims to highlight the gap in the job market for people with learning disabilities who are furthest from the job market. In England, just 5.1% of people with learning disabilities…
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Oct- 2021 -19 OctoberNews
UKH highlights importance of Hospitality apprenticeships week
As hospitality apprenticeships week 2021 begins, trade association UKHospitality has urged the sector to use the event as a platform to champion the diverse and exciting careers on offer. This year’s event will seek to “challenge misconceptions around roles in the industry”. Throughout the week, UK Hospitality will join the…
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Aug- 2021 -26 AugustBusiness
Just Eat to create over 1,500 new jobs in North East
Just Eat has announced it will create more than 1,500 new customer service jobs over the next 12 months, in collaboration with Sunderland City Council. The new roles will be based in Houghton le Spring, Sunderland. Overall, Just Eat is investing more than £100m into the region across the next…
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Jul- 2021 -5 JulyPubs and Bars
Greene King partners with Landmarks Specialist College
Greene King has announced a new partnership with Landmarks Specialist College to provide 16-24 year olds with learning difficulties and disabilities the opportunity to develop employment and life skills as they enter the hospitality industry. The first programme, which began in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, will give nine learners work…
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Jun- 2021 -30 JuneComment
Flexi-apprenticeships are the answer to the dwindling hospitality workforce
Whether it was a quick bite at a café, a meal at a restaurant, or a pint at the pub, customers were quick to return to their favourite bars and eateries when indoor hospitality was allowed to reopen in May. However, while this surge in bookings has contributed to the UK’s…
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