Youth Employment Week provides an opportunity to highlight the role employers can play in helping young people develop the confidence, skills and experience needed to build lasting careers.
As a member of Youth Employment UK, CleanEvent is committed to creating practical routes into employment through apprenticeships, mentoring, work experience and structured development opportunities.
While environmental progress often dominates conversations around ESG, the social element is equally important. For us, this means investing in people, widening access to opportunity and supporting colleagues at every stage of their working lives.
That commitment does not end once someone joins the business. Development continues through workplace learning, professional qualifications, leadership opportunities and experience gained across different venues and operating environments.
Across CleanEvent, colleagues who began their careers in entry-level roles have progressed into supervisory, management and specialist positions. Others have broadened their skills by supporting unfamiliar venues, major events and new areas of responsibility, building confidence while strengthening the service delivered to clients.
Our apprenticeship programme also provides structured routes into areas including sales and marketing, people and culture, finance and operational management, combining formal learning with practical workplace experience.
Behind every successful event, contract and client partnership is a team of people who have been given the opportunity to learn, contribute and progress.
Supporting youth employment is therefore not simply about preparing for the workforce of tomorrow. It is about the decisions employers make today to create meaningful opportunities, develop talent and help people see where their careers could take them.
For CleanEvent, the ‘S’ in ESG is fundamentally about people.
