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Caterina Nominated as Finalist for Outstanding Apprentice of the Year Award at Institute of Hospitality NI Awards

The Awards Dinner and Ceremony will occur at Culloden Estate & Spa on Friday, September 20th, where the winners will be announced...

JD Sports and Inspiro Expand Successful Apprenticeship Programme to Distribution Centre & Retail Employees Across England

JD Sports, one of the UK's leading sports and fashion retailers, has partnered with Inspiro Learning to expand their successful skills and development programme...

The Power of Apprenticeships: Liz’s Journey to Restaurant Manager

Liz Murphy is a shining star in the hospitality industry. With her Scottish Modern Apprenticeship in Hospitality Management Skills under her belt...

Rising star of the automotive industry: Apprentice Harriette Drysdale Wins Prestigious Apprentice of the Year Award

Harriette Drysdale, an apprentice at Vertu Motors' Stockton on Tees branch, has been awarded their prestigious Apprentice of the Year award...

Inspiro and Poundland announce new partnership

Inspiro Learning has announced an exciting partnership with Poundland to implement a comprehensive learning and development programme aimed at enhancing career advancement opportunities for their employees...

Marriott Launches New Video to Attract Future Hospitality Talent

Marriott International, the world's largest hotel chain, has recently launched a new video aimed at attracting new and talented people to the hospitality industry. Watch the video to find out more...

Inspiro and BMW academy win two prestigious awards for their innovative training

Inspiro Learning and BMW Group Academy UK have been honoured with two awards at the Learning Excellence Awards for their innovative 'EVolution' in-retailer training...

Inspiro and BMW Academy hand-picked as finalists for prestigious training innovation award

We are thrilled to announce that Inspiro Learning and BMW Group Academy UK have been shortlisted as finalists for The Learning Awards...

The QHotels Collection and Inspiro – A Productive Partnership

The QHotels Collection operate some of the best Hotels and Resorts in the UK. They see staff development and career progression an essential part of their business...

Graded ‘Good’ by Ofsted

Inspiro are very pleased to announce our latest Ofsted result. A full inspection took place on 13-16th September 2022, and we have been graded as ‘Good’...

Valor Hospitality and Inspiro join forces to grow hospitality talent within their UK hotels

Inspiro Learning is delighted to announce a new partnership with leading hospitality brand Valor Hospitality to deliver bespoke apprenticeship training...

Inspiro & Boots – A Beautiful Partnership

Boots is one of the UK and Ireland’s largest and most trusted retailers, with over 2,200 stores ranging from local community pharmacies to large health and beauty shops. Boots have approximately 52,000 employees throughout the UK and their rich heritage of supplying quality health and beauty...

N Family Club & Inspiro Provide #SkillsForLife

The Education and Skills sector celebrate the achievements of apprentices around the country and the positive impact they make to...

Imagine more with Inspiro Learning

Following the successful purchase of part of the Babcock civil training business from Babcock International Group by London-based investment firm...

Mike Turner – Realising A Dream Career

Inspiro Learning work in partnership with Joseph Holt, a highly successful brewer and pub operator, to deliver life-changing hospitality apprenticeships. The company place a major emphasis on this aspect of employee advancement. “It’s important for us to invest in training our staff to develop...

Message of condolence

We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Her Majesty, The Queen. We send our heartfelt condolences to the Royal Family and join a Commonwealth in mourning, as we reflect on the loss of a monarch who served the people of Britain and the Commonwealth for over 70 years. At Inspiro we were...

Chef Academy & Hospitality School – A Recipe For Success

Inspiro Training have established an enviable reputation by forming successful partnerships with many leading hospitality employers. Working collaboratively, we offer solutions that reflect our 25-year track record within the sector, providing programmes that develop talented and passionate...

A New Career Calling

With a wide range of qualifications including Astrophysics and a Batchelor in Pure and Applied Mathematics, and with over 40 years in the technology and computer industry in Hong Kong Alex Wai Wing Yeung retired and moved to Cardiff to be near his children who are studying in Cardiff. Having spent...

Michelin trained chef enhancing our apprenticeship delivery

Inspiro Training has successful partnerships with companies from all sectors across the UK. We always aim to select partners that add value to our level of service and share both our values and our commitment to providing a fantastic training experience for our learners and employers. Below is a...

A Helping Hand For Hospitality

Labour shortages have left hospitality businesses across the UK desperate for staff. Recruitment is becoming increasingly difficult across the hospitality sector, with the British Institute of Innkeeping confirming that almost 100% of companies have open vacancies and ONS reporting around 163,000...

Interstate Chefs Make A Sizzling Start

Interstate Hotel & Resort’s apprentice chefs have settled nicely into their new roles. The company, who have partnered with Inspiro Training to help deliver the programme, have taken on 17 apprentices from across the UK. Kitted out in their pristine chef whites, the new recruits have already...

Inspiro and Marriott celebrate 20 years in partnership

Inspiro Training Limited, one of the UK’s leading apprenticeship providers, is celebrating 20 years in partnership with Marriott International, the largest hotel chain in the world. The relationship between the two organisations is both strong and effective, resulting in the delivery of innovative...

Galgorm Growth Aided By Inspiro Apprenticeships

Galgorm Collection owns multiple sites in Northern Ireland, including the award-winning Galgorm Resort, The Rabbit Hotel & Retreat, The Old Inn, the 3AA Rosette River Room Restaurant, Gillies Bar & Grill, Castle Kitchen + Bar, Fratelli Galgorm, as well as Belfast restaurants Fratelli and...

Côte Careers Boosted By Inspiro

Inspiro Training are thrilled to have joined forces with Côte, ahead of launching a new, bespoke apprenticeship development programme in April 2022. Côte are a highly successful restaurant chain with a passion for serving the finest French cuisine. They provide customers with a relaxed all day...

Inspiro Join N Family Club in a Brand New Workforce Development Partnership

Inspiro Training, one of the UK’s leading apprenticeship providers, has formed a brand new and extremely exciting partnership with N Family Club, who are on a mission to become the UK’s highest quality, and most loved nursery group. N Family Club are reshaping Early Years education by creating an...

Omni Facilities Management – Developing Talent Together

Working in partnership with Inspiro Training, The Omni Academy of Apprenticeships is for people looking to further their career in the hospitality industry with the drive and determination of becoming the managers of leaders of tomorrow. Below illustrates how our Management programme enables and...

Delivering bespoke apprenticeship programmes across Dunelm’s UK portfolio

Dunelm has been working with Inspiro since 2015, developing a bespoke apprenticeship programme that is offered across their UK portfolio of stores to support both retail and hospitality operations...

Ciara Fegan’s McDonald’s Apprenticeship Journey

Ciara Fegan has emerged as a top performer within McDonald’s Northern Ireland operations and is a prime example of how the development programme and apprenticeships equip people with the tools to develop and progress in their job role. Ciara began her journey with McDonald’s in 2018 as a Crew...

Interstate launches Chef Academy

Earlier this month hotel management company Interstate Hotels & Resorts launched a new Chef Academy for apprentices at the Aloft Hotel, Birmingham. Interstate, the international arm of Aimbridge Hospitality, has joined forces with Inspiro Training to help deliver the programme which saw...

Inspiro awarded contract renewal to deliver apprenticeships in Northern Ireland

We are pleased to announce that the Department for the Economy (DfE) has awarded Inspiro a contract renewal to deliver the ApprenticeshipsNI 2021 programme across Northern Ireland (NI). Inspiro have delivered apprenticeships in NI since 2007 and have delivered c.7, 400 apprenticeships across the...

Vertas apprenticeship programme launch

Vertas has partnered with Inspiro to deliver an innovative and leading apprenticeship provision for their complex and diverse facilities management business. Operating across Great Britain, Vertas has over 4,000 colleagues providing services in cleaning, catering, security, energy management...

Tackling the skills shortage in the hospitality industry

Pre pandemic the hospitality sector was a booming industry, being the 4th biggest employer in the UK, generating £73bn for the UK economy, and accounting for approximately 3.2m jobs through direct employment. Over the past 12 months the Covid pandemic has had a devastating effect on both large and...

Call of the Wild and Inspiro’s innovative approach to management apprenticeship delivery

Inspiro and Call of the Wild have partnered together to deliver unique and innovative leadership and management apprenticeship programmes to businesses and apprentices. Call of the Wild offers professional leadership and management development programmes to businesses and organisations across the...

Apprenticeship pathways supporting our partnership with Home Group

Home Group are a housing association, social enterprise and charity with a turnover of over £400m. They are one of the UK’s largest providers of high quality housing and integrated housing, health and social care. Inspiro has supported Home Group for several years, supporting their employees to...

STANLEY Security partners with Inspiro

We are pleased to welcome and partner with STANLEY Security (part of the STANLEY Black and Decker group) to provide an innovative and leading apprenticeship provision for their employees. STANLEY have a firm commitment to providing employee development opportunities and long term career progression...

Inspiro Apprentice wins the Institute of Hospitality Northern Ireland Awards – Outstanding Apprentice of the Year 2020

Winners of the 25th annual Institute of Hospitality Awards for Professionalism (NI Branch) were announced through Facebook and Twitter for the first time in the history of the awards. With the severe limitations caused by the pandemic, this year meant that the usual gala dinner was replaced with a...

Webex virtual training platform enhancing Inspiro’s remote learning experience

To support and enhance our remote learning experience, Inspiro trainers and apprentices now have access to WebEx’s online virtual training platform. The introduction of this software will build on our already well established remote delivery facilities and further boost our ability to deliver a...

Matalan apprentices back on programme

Inspiro has been working with Matalan for the past 18 months, delivering high quality retail apprenticeship solutions that reflects Matalan’s commitment to workforce development. Matalan encourages all their Retail Supervisors to follow their ‘Career Path’; an internal programme developed to ensure...

Financial incentives for Welsh employers to recruit apprentices

The Welsh Government have introduced a series of incentive payments for hiring new, disabled and redundant apprentices at levels 2 to 5. The incentive forms part of the Welsh Governments plan to secure apprenticeship training opportunities for individuals across Wales during these challenging times...

Inspiro Training reaccredited by Skills for Care

After an extensive evaluation, we are pleased to announce Inspiro Training has retained the Skills for Care accreditation. Skills for Care’s endorsement is the bespoke quality mark that is given to the best learning and development providers within the adult social care sector and is synonymous with...

Northern Ireland Government introduce sweeping incentives to retain and recruit apprentices

Apprenticeship retention incentive initiative Economy Minister Diane Dodds has announced employers will be offered £3,700 for every apprentice that they bring back from furlough and retain until they have completed their apprenticeship. The scheme will begin on 1st November 2020, when the UK wide...

Inspiro Training reaccredited by Matrix

Over the course of a week in September, a team of Matrix Standard Assessors inspected our apprenticeship provision and interviewed staff, learners and employers from across our business. After a comprehensive evaluation, we are very pleased to announce we have passed our Matrix assessment and...

Inspiro’s remote learning approach

Building on Inspiro’s reputation for technology and innovation, we pride ourselves on providing a learning experience that meets and exceeds the expectations of customers and apprentices. This learning experience is delivered via our UK wide teams of apprenticeship professionals who consistently...

A successful Stonegate apprentice is recognised by a special award at the houses of parliament

The Stonegate Pub Company (Stonegate) operate over 772 pubs and bars across the UK, from community and high-street pubs, through branded bars, to classic inns and late-night venues. Inspiro has been working with Stonegate for almost 10 years, delivering high quality hospitality apprenticeships...

Jupiter Hotels Rising Stars

Jupiter Hotels is a highly experienced multi brand operator within the UK’s hotel market. Predominately specialising in management of the Mercure and Holiday Inn brands, they currently manage 31 hotels across the UK. Their property portfolio includes country houses, business hotels, city centre and...

Craig Holmes winning the NI Apprentice of the Year Award

Inspiro apprentice Craig Holmes wins coveted Northern Ireland Apprentice of the Year Award

We are delighted that Inspiro trained apprentice Craig Holmes won the highly coveted Northern Ireland Apprentice of the Year 2020 at the prestigious Northern Ireland Apprenticeship Awards 2020! With the ceremony taking place during 2020’s National Apprenticeship Week, these awards showcase the very...

RBH launches their Bloom Academy

Hospitality based Management Company RBH leads the market in delivering nationally and internationally recognised hotel and hospitality brands. For RBH, driving operational excellence across its portfolio is paramount, and one of the key reasons the business partnered with Inspiro. As part of its...

Almarose Hotels & Resort Launches its Chef Academy

Almarose manages some of the best Hotels & Resorts in the UK. With a wealth of experience and knowledge of the hotel and resort market, they manage 20 full-service four-star hotels with over 2,800 bedrooms and 220 meeting rooms, including 18 spas and 12 golf courses across 7 resorts. With their...

Elior’s Chef School goes from strength to strength

Elior’s Chef School is a unique culinary programme designed to inspire chefs of the future. The programme offers a comprehensive learning experience by providing a development environment that allows prospective chef’s to acquire practical skills, achieve apprenticeship standards and build a long...

Asda and Inspiro celebrate after Asda’ first retail apprentice completes the new apprenticeship standards

Inspiro and Asda joined forces back in 2013 and have been delivering an exciting and innovative apprenticeship programme to Asda employees across the UK. Passionate about delivering ground-breaking workforce development solutions, Asda has been involved in the apprenticeship Trailblazer groups from...

Inspiro gets the gold standard

Inspiro has been accredited as a Gold Standard apprenticeship provider by People 1st, the sector skills council for the hospitality, retail, travel and passenger transport sectors. The People 1st Gold Standard accreditation process is an exclusive stamp of approval for the delivery of excellent...

Inspiro secures Skills for Care endorsement

Inspiro receives recognition from sector skills council for the adult social care sector Inspiro’s adult health & social care provision has been endorsed by Skills for Care, the sector skills council for the adult social care sector. The endorsement process is an exclusive stamp of approval for...

Inspiro scoops Quality Award for the 3rd consecutive year

Inspiro recognised for high quality apprenticeships Scottish Training Federation Quality Provider of the Year 2018 Inspiro has scooped the Scottish Training Federation Quality Provider of the Year Award for the third year running! The Quality Provider of the Year 2018 was announced at Scotland’s...

Inspiro awarded ‘excellent’ inspection outcome by Education Scotland

Inspiro awarded a ‘Grade 1- Excellent’ across four judgement areas Education Scotland is the national body in Scotland for supporting quality and improvement in learning and teaching. Part of their expansive remit is the inspection regime of schools across Scotland, and they have recently introduced...

Inspiro and BT share award success! Partnership wins prestigious Employer Innovation Award

Inspiro and BT are delighted to have been awarded a prestigious Employer Innovation Award at this year’s Department for Economy Apprentice of the Year Awards. These awards showcase Northern Ireland’s Apprenticeship and Higher Level Apprenticeship programmes and acknowledge excellence across all...

Aleksandra Burzec receives a highly commended Rising Star of the Year Award at the 2018 National Apprenticeship Awards!

Inspiro trained Home Group apprentice is presented with prestigious NAS Award We are delighted that Inspiro trained apprentice Aleksandra Burzec was presented with a highly commended award for the 2018 Lloyds Banking Group Rising Star of the Year category as part of the prestigious National...