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Regional publisher wins award for apprenticeship scheme

ArchantA regional publisher has been honoured for an apprenticeship scheme it set up in conjunction with a local college.

Cirencester College has presented Archant with its Best Employer Contribution to the College – Apprenticeships award, after taking on apprentices across its editorial, marketing and digital departments.

Many of those taken on have since become full-time members of staff with Archant.

The award was collected earlier this month by Wayne Morgan, digital director and Paul Upton, subscriptions manager.

Said Wayne: “Working with apprentices is extremely rewarding. Archant is a wonderful place to learn and build real life experience, and our apprentices, at the end of their courses, become an integral and valuable part of our organisation.

“We need to recognise and thank our Human Resources team, without whom, none of this would have happened. Archant is blessed with a superb HR team.”

The award citation from the college states: “We wanted to acknowledge Archant’s ongoing commitment to providing opportunities to apprentices, and to recognise the workplace support that takes place to help develop a local, talented and knowledgeable future workforce. This is across all areas of their workplace.”