Cornerstone Employers
What is a Cornerstone Employer?
The Gloucestershire Cornerstone Employer group works collaboratively with the Gloucestershire Careers Hub to guide our careers strategy and operational plan, to ensure our work with schools and colleges helps to meet future workforce and skills needs. Through this work, we ensure that young people in the county are curious, informed, and inspired by the opportunities and career pathways they have available to them, to best prepare them for the world of work and higher education and beyond.
Cornerstone employers are proven champions of linking and delivering education and skills throughout the county ensuring all of our key sectors have a voice in developing our future workforce. Our cornerstone employers provide valuable leadership to like-minded businesses locally to engage with schools and colleges ensuring our young people are fully supported to understand the opportunities and pathways available to them.
Their support and wider outreach activities to promote and inspire other employers to join us is highly valued and professionally respected.
Meet our Cornerstone Employers
CyNam
Gloucestershire’s leading cyber platform, CyNam supports the development of the region’s cyber technology industry. The organisation is an NCSC CyberFirst member, and helps to develop the next generation of cyber talent in the region.
Visit the CyNam websiteCampden BRI
Campden BRI is a leader in global food and drink science and research. They offer a wide range of apprenticeship opportunities and outreach support for local schools.
Visit the Campden BRI websiteGloucestershire Constabulary
Gloucestershire’s police force provides a wide variety of engagement activities for young people, ranging from its Police Cadet scheme and Ride Along schemes to work experience placements and its Youth Advisory Group.
Gloucestershire Constabulary is the lead police force in England for mounted policing and engages with Gloucestershire schools to ensure young people are aware of the opportunities avalable to them including apprenticeships and the full range of entry pathways.
Visit the Gloucestershire Constabulary websiteGloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
One Gloucestershire NHS Trust provides a multitude of engagement opportunities for young students and parents to find out more about both clinical and non-clinical pathways into the NHS, including, but not limited to:
- information workshops in schools and colleges
- attending careers fayres
- CPD sessions for teachers and careers leaders
- work experience placements for students
They offer a range of apprenticeships from Level 2 (post GCSE) to degree level.
Visit the NHS websiteGloucester Services
Gloucester Services is more than just a motorway rest stop. Set up as a partnership between the Westmoreland Family and Gloucestershire Gateway Trust, it invests back into the community to help develop local opportunities.
Visit the Gloucester Services websiteKier
Kier is a leading provider of infrastructure services, construction and property developments.
Visit the Kier websiteKW Bell Group
Based in the heart of the Forest of Dean, KW Bell Group is at the forefront of groundwork and civil engineering in the house building industry. Through their sister company AccXel, they offer bespoke training and apprenticeships in construction and building trades.
Visit the KW Bell Group websiteRenishaw
One of the world’s leading engineering and scientific technology companies, Renishaw is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Its early careers network helps young people to gain experience and learn more about a career in STEM. Renishaw's work experience programme is only one of many opportunities offered to young students who are interested in learning more about the sector and is doubly over-subscribed year on year.
The company is passionate about supporting our special educational needs (SEND), students, and provide staff time to conduct practice interviews to help build their confidence and have exposure to new experiences. Renishaw's Rebecca Bound is the Chair of the Gloucestershire Cornerston Employer Group, and represents the county on the national Cornersone Employer Chair's Network.
Visit the Renishaw websiteSuntory
Suntory is the manufacturer of Ribena and Lucozade, amongst other drinks, and its UK factory is based in Coleford. They offer talks and experiences for young people from local schools, as well as apprenticeship opportunities.
Visit the Suntory websiteWant to become a Cornerstone Employer?
If you'd like to help improve our careers outreach, head to our Get Involved page and a member of the team will be in touch with more information.
All Cornerstone Employers must follow the Careers and Enterprise Company Employer Standards, which will help you think about and plan up-front what you want to achieve from working with schools, special schools and colleges, review the quality of your outreach and how it aligns with your business objectives. Learn more at https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/employers/employer-standards/
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