Graduates & Apprentices at Bromford

During National Apprenticeship Week we marked the occasion with an event to celebrate the 100 young people who have joined our early careers programme in the past four years.

We brought together some of the apprentices and graduates who have joined the business or who have completed their studies over the past four years for a special celebration event. It was the culmination of a commitment we made in 2019 to enable our colleagues to thrive to recruit 100 people into our early careers programme by March 2023. We reached that milestone in the autumn when our latest intake of apprentices and graduates joined the business; amongst them was People Team Graduate Kate Farnell.

“I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do after I left university, but then I saw the role at Bromford and the more I learned about it the more interested I got,” she said. “Knowing about the work that Bromford does as a housing association and the fact it is a public sector organisation was definitely one of the reasons I wanted to work here. But Bromford also gives you the chance to continue to learn and gain further qualifications which is great. I’ve really enjoyed my first few months and am excited to see what the next two years brings.”

We want to be recognised as a business that supports our community. As members of national body the 5% Club, we have committed to increasing the number of apprentices, sponsored students, and graduates on formal programmes to at least 5% of our total workforce within five years.