Unleashing Opportunities to Help our People Grow
A business is only as strong as its people, and investing in skills, career progression and leadership development is central to our vision.
We are exceeding our target of 5% of the workforce in earn-and-learn positions by FY2026, having already reached 5.8% in FY2025 providing a total of 78,564 training hours. We attribute this to an adjustment in our strategy, expanding earn-and-learn positions beyond apprenticeships and graduate training schemes to include the development of our existing colleagues and providing structured leadership development with a clear focus on ensuring these opportunities are accessible to diverse talent pools.
We also aim to be a youth employer of choice, ensuring that young people are aware of Speedy Hire and the hire industry as an attractive career option. We work with organisations such as The Youth Group, Not Going to Uni, Early Careers Foundation and Springpod as well as schools and colleges across the UK offering activities such as mock interviews, CV building, skills training, mentoring and virtual and in-person work experience.
We have received a silver accreditation from the 5% Club for our workforce ‘earn and learn’ programmes and a Gold from Investors in People for our ‘We Invest in Apprentices’ programme.
2025 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT
Download our 2025 Sustainability Report for more detailed information on our Including Everyone pillar.
Modern Slavery, A Lived Experience
At Speedy Hire, we’re supporting modern slavery survivors. Watch our interview with survivor and campaigner Ilja Abbattista, filmed at our Speedy Hire Live Expo in March 2024
Our late careers mentoring programme, launched in FY2023, ensures the skills of our more experienced colleagues are passed on to trainees. We train and financially incentivise mentors across the business to work with first-year apprentices, facilitating a two-way sharing of knowledge and experience.
We champion the promotion of fair opportunities for all working with organisations to support those facing barriers and disadvantages in the recruitment market such as ex-offenders through Clean Sheet and our Career Transition Partnership with the Armed Forces Covenant. In 2024 we joined the Social Recruitment Covenant achieving a Gold member status for supporting inclusive recruitment and social mobility. For more information on our partnerships please visit our governance page.
We are also a partner of Bright Future Co-op, a national initiative that aims to fast-track survivors of modern slavery into high-quality employment. We have been working with Bright Future to train our recruitment teams and line managers to support modern slavery survivors into employment and to offer paid employment at Speedy Hire.
Unlocking new opportunities
Watch our video demonstrating how we are unlocking new opportunities for our people.
Green skills for today and tomorrow
We recognise the importance of sustainability training in supporting the green transition skills gap in the construction sector and have a target to train all our employees in sustainability by 2025.
In FY2025 we expanded our we designed and ESG Business Partners programme, selecting people from every business division in Speedy Hire to go through a bespoke green skills training programme to help deliver our sustainability strategy. All our ESG business partners are now Associate members of IEMA and are our future sustainability influencers.
Our industry-leading ‘Building Sustainability Confidence’ programme, also launched in FY2024 continues to train all our people on green skills, further embedding sustainability into our business and culture, as well as providing our people with the critical green skills needed for our workforce of tomorrow.
Future Proofing for Green Skills
Toby Shaw, Executive Director at IEMA, delves into the critical importance of building green skills for the future of business. Discover why integrating sustainable practices and developing green competencies are essential for staying ahead in a rapidly evolving market. Learn how businesses can future-proof themselves by embracing green skills and contributing to a more sustainable world.
