1. VCSE Organisations as Apprentice Employers Findings from a GMCVO project and survey

2. Overview About the survey Organisations with apprentices Organisations without apprentices Future plans Barriers

3. About the survey 2015 VCSE Skills Needs Survey Questions adapted from Employer Perspectives Survey 2012 3000+ organisations from the GMCVO database and FAME database 235 responses obtained

4. Organisations with apprentices 22% (53) of respondents 80% planning to recruit staff Community development; health & wellbeing; education, training & research Profit-oriented trading activity Registered charities and company ltd

5. Organisations without apprentices 77% (182) of respondents 64% planning to recruit staff Community development; education, training & research; economic wellbeing; health and wellbeing Less likely profit-oriented Reg. charities, companies ltd, CICs

6. Comparisons: Full-time staff Number of FT StaffNumber of orgs with apprentice Number of orgs without apprentice 0139 1-102147 11-40173 41-10021 100+70

7. Comparisons: Professionalisation FunctionPercentage of orgs with apprentice Percentage of orgs without apprentice Chief Executive88%61% Function/Department Head 72%35% Administration98%72%

8. Barriers Lack of capacity to recruit/manage apprentices Lack of disposable funding to pay apprentices Lack of long-term organisational security and sustainability All of these are further exacerbated by apprenticeships being complicated territory to navigate

9. Future plans Organisations with apprenticeships 86% to continue employing apprentices Organisations without apprentices 30% to start employing apprentices in future 45% unsure 30% sure that they won’t employ apprentices

10. Thanks for listening! For more information about the project: Nathalie.long@gmcvo.org.uk For more information about the survey: Susanne.Martikke@gmcvo.org.uk