A new apprenticeship programme has been launched by lender, Black & White Bridging, to give young people a route into the financial sector.
Black & White Bridging launched nationally to the intermediary market in April last year.
The company said it is aiming to establish a “culture of recruitment” from within the talent pool of young people in and around the Bath and Bristol area. Working in association with Bristol based Professional Apprenticeships, Black & White Bridging revealed it has already taken on two apprentices and is interviewing for a third this month.
“Not only do we gain from having enthusiastic young starters who are keen to learn but also they join us with no preconceptions and are therefore open to learning and adopting our culture of transparency in everything we do,” the lender’s commercial director, Damien Druce, commented.
“In return, we provide a full training programme and support where their particular talents are assessed to find the right long term role for them within the organisation.”
Druce added: “I have always been a fan of those football clubs, which, rather than buying in expensive talent, put their resources into their youth academies to grow the next generation of first team talent. At Black & White we are establishing our own ‘academy’ to train the finance professionals of the future and support them as they build their careers with us and in the wider world.”
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