Discover how community apprenticeships at Wycombe Wanderers Foundation are creating opportunities, boosting skills, and supporting local impact.

As the official charity of Wycombe Wanderers Football Club, the charity is a shining example of an organisation that has invested in apprenticeship opportunities to deliver impact within their setting and encourages young people to develop lifelong activity habits, that they can then promote to people of all ages within their local community.

The initial conversations were that the club wanted three apprentices, but we worked closely with them to enable them to have four apprentices, accessing the Levy Transfer, allowing them to expand their delivery and have a bigger impact in the community.

We asked Andy Homent, Head of People at Wycombe Wanderers to share his experience of recruiting apprentices.

They have an excellent enthusiasm and thirst to build their knowledge, confidence, and understanding of their role here at Wycombe Wanderers Foundation, and that rubs off on the participants/pupils in their delivery.

Wycombe Wanderers Foundation has benefitted in multiple ways from the introduction of numerous cohorts of apprentices, and none more so in our ability to work with and engage with more participants in our community, but also in our ability to invest in the apprentices to grow our full time and part-time workforce.

The apprentices we have recruited have gone on to form a key part of our workforce across our Sports Participation, Education & Employability, and Health & Inclusion departments. From providing high-quality delivery to our participants in schools, holiday camps, outreach programmes, and much more, the apprentices have enabled us to go even further in satisfying our charitable aims across countless areas of our community.