Accountancy firm Hazlewoods takes on record number of apprentices

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Peter Davison

Hazlewoods apprentices

Accountancy firm Hazlewoods has taken on a record number of apprentices. Fifty school leavers and graduates started AAT, ACA and ACA/CTA apprenticeships this September.

They join a well-established apprenticeship programme at Hazlewoods who currently support 138 apprentices in their studies and work-based training.

Apprentices make up a quarter of the 500-strong workforce at the firm, which has offices in Cheltenham, Staverton and Bristol.

They join a well-established apprenticeship programme at Hazlewoods who currently support 138 apprentices in their studies and work-based training.

With a workforce of over 500 based across four offices in Cheltenham, Staverton and Bristol, Hazlewoods are proud to employ over one quarter of their workforce as apprentices.

HR Director, Sue Golding, commented: “We feel that both Gloucestershire and Hazlewoods have much to offer to potential new recruits, from the local area and increasingly those from further afield who may be looking to relocate.”

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Marketing Director, Alison Townsend, adds: “By increasing the number of apprenticeships available we want to support the local economy and help ensure Gloucestershire is seen as an attractive and appealing place to work and live.

"We are committed to creating more opportunities to encourage local school leavers and graduates to remain in the county – whilst flying the Gloucestershire flag to attract new recruits to move into the area.”

Hazlewoods also offers a range of training, qualified and senior management roles alongside operational career opportunities in IT, marketing, HR and business administration.

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.