DiVA Apprenticeships Information

DiVA is a recruitment and training organisation that helps businesses to grow through the use of creative, business and digital apprenticeships. Our clients include international brands including Universal Music, All3 Media, Warner Music, Southbank Centre, 20th Century Fox as well as a host of small and medium-sized employers. Apprenticeships are for new and existing staff and are designed to help you make sure your business has the skills it needs to be competitive. Our service to our clients includes: Support to develop an apprenticeship programme that matches their business objectives Free recruitment service Help to access government grants Full training and mentoring support for their apprentice by an experienced team of training professionals Full management of their apprenticeship programme including enrollment and all associated administration. The Apprenticeship Levy is being introduced in April 2017 as part of the UK government’s plan to help fund 3 million new Apprenticeships by 2020. It is a mandatory tax of 0.5% of an employer’s wage bill for all employers with an annual pay bill that exceeds £3,000,000. The levy is expected to raise £3 billion of which £2.5 billion will be spent on apprenticeship training in England. DiVA can provide you with dedicated business support to help you navigate through the process and work with you on building a responsive and relevant training programme to help your business grow in response to the Apprenticeship Levy whether your business is in scope to pay the levy or not.