VCSE Organisations as Apprentice Employers

Findings from a GMCVO project and survey

Overview• About the survey• Organisations with apprentices• Organisations without apprentices• Future plans• Barriers

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

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

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

Comparisons: Full-time staff

Number of FT Staff Number of orgs with apprentice

Number of orgs without apprentice

0 1 39

1-10 21 47

11-40 17 3

41-100 2 1

100+ 7 0

Comparisons: Professionalisation

Function Percentage of orgs with apprentice

Percentage of orgs without apprentice

Chief Executive 88% 61%

Function/Department Head

72% 35%

Administration 98% 72%

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

Future plansOrganisations with apprenticeships•86% to continue employing apprenticesOrganisations without apprentices•30% to start employing apprentices in future•45% unsure•30% sure that they won’t employ apprentices

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