“Apprenticeships offer a route for bright individuals to gain access to the marketing industry, which is inclusive but only when you have navigated your way in. It takes vision and persistence to uncover talent that tends not to find its way to us and we enjoy working with the Marketing Academy Foundation for that reason.”

“…Mahalia and Jeng have both successfully completed their loops to be offered full-time roles at Amazon. They are brilliant, thank you so much. Amazon would not be accessing extraordinary talent like them without your vision and ongoing persistence.

— Ed Smith, Amazon

“We loved having our apprentices! We enjoyed the diversity they brought to the whole team and their managers learned valuable skills in developing them.”

— Claire Topping, Senior Vice President, Marketing, Virgin Atlantic

“As a business, we want to give back. I’ve really enjoyed watching Umber grow and develop. And she does proper work. If she wasn’t there, I’d have a hole in my team”

— Colin Buckingham, Head of Media, Bird’s Eye