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AoA's BIG Apprentice Meet-Up - MANCHESTER (free professional headshots available 📸)
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AoA's BIG Apprentice Meet-Up - MANCHESTER (free professional headshots available 📸)

Friday 2nd May 2025

Interested in networking with fellow apprentices and expanding your professional circle? Join us for an excellent opportunity to participate in an afternoon of growth and networking. Gain access to tailor-made personal development and insights from guest speakers at our Manchester BIG  #Apprenticemeetup this May, where we will be covering key topics, including:

  • Speaking with confidence and impact

  • Behind the scenes of the End-Point Assessment (EPA)

  • The power of healthy boundaries

  • Grabbing those opportunities with both hands!

Sponsored by Accelerate People and Manchester Metropolitan University, this Apprentice meetup is open to current apprentices and past apprentices. Plus it can contribute to your ‘off-the-job’ training hours and support your continuing professional development.

Refreshments will be provided.

Tickets are available for the full event 1pm – 6:30pm which includes the development session or just for the networking session 4:30pm – 6:30pm.

➡️Plus for the first time ever, apprentices can get a free professional headshot to elevate their personal brand! 📸 Available during the networking session on a first-come, first-served basis—don’t miss out!

Jan Richardson-Wilde

CEO, Occupational Awards Limited

Jan is the CEO of Occupational Awards Limited, a Director of the National Skills Academy for Food and Drink and an FE College Governor. She has over 35 years’ experience in the education sector in strategic and operational management of training programmes with colleges, private training providers, local authorities the voluntary sector and not for profit organisations. Jan has previously been a board member of the Learning and Skills Council, chair of the North Yorkshire Training Provider network and Vice-Chair of Yorkshire Coast College and a Governor of the Grimsby Institute for Further and Higher Education. She has extensive experience of education policy, apprenticeships, qualification, and curriculum development as well as business improvement.

Jan joined OAL in 2019, a leading non-profit industry-focused Awarding and End-Point Assessment Organisation, supporting a wide range of employers and of key stakeholders to succeed and surpass expectations. Jan is committed to continuous improvement and enthusiastic about improving the effectiveness, impact and quality of apprenticeships, education, and training in the UK and internationally. She has a wide range of experience of working in a collaborative context with employers and training providers to develop End Point Assessment, apprenticeships, and a wide range of vocational programmes.

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