
About Next Gen Makers
We recognise the best employers in the UK for engineering apprenticeships with our Engineering Apprenticeships: Employer Accreditation (backed by strategic partners and national manufacturing organisation Make UK) – and help any company to get there Future-proof your workforce by joining the Next Gen Makers Engineering Apprenticeships: Best Practice Programme community.
Our movement unites industry to share best practice and collectively inspire the next generation whilst recognising and promoting the UK’s best employers for engineering apprenticeships.
Who is involved?
In short… any engineering and manufacturing company that:
Wants to learn how to run a great apprenticeship scheme
Aims to become an employer of choice for aspiring engineers
Is passionate about inspiring the next generation
Wants to boost future talent pipelines
Our community is open to everyone who shares a commitment to future-proofing their workforce through successful apprenticeship schemes, whilst promoting their business and the wider sector itself.
Engineering Apprenticeships: Best Practice Programme
Our Engineering Apprenticeships: Best Practice Programme is a community best practice sharing and benchmarking initiative that guides any engineering & manufacturing company to structure and run a best-in-class apprenticeship scheme.
Is your apprenticeship scheme maximising its potential to develop the talent needed to future-proof your…
Engineering Apprenticeships: Employer Accreditation
Is your organisation an employer of choice for engineering apprenticeships?
If you believe so, get accredited and stand out from the crowd.
Join the Next Gen Makers community and pursue our Engineering Apprenticeships: Employer Accreditation, backed by our strategic partners and the manufacturers organisation Make UK.
Excellent Employers Online Platform
We run a groundbreaking online platform to promote the best employers for engineering apprenticeships nationwide and inspire the next generation…
The platform is aimed at teachers and school careers advisers, providing them with information and resources to inspire and inform students about the career opportunities engineering…
Our Partners
Business Partner:
MSC is the UK’s leading metalworking supplier, offering access to over 120,000 products, including Metalworking, MRO, and PPE. Based in Wednesbury, West Midlands, MSC UK acquired a 49% stake in Next Gen Makers in 2021.
Before the acquisition, MSC and Next Gen Makers had already been…
Freemium Membership
Join our Freemium Membership to access three exclusive Digital Insight Reports: Understanding Gen Z and Gen Alpha, What Apprentices Want, and The Most Common Apprenticeship Scheme Best Practices.
These reports will help you integrate the next generation into your workforce, enhance the apprentice experience, and improve your apprenticeship scheme.…