Leisure apprenticeships: supporting the industry’s ambitions to grow
With over 10 million members across over 7.2 thousand centres in the UK, the active leisure and fitness industry is an essential part of our economy and importantly, the health of the nation.
With over 190,000 employed in the sector, there is a wealth of opportunity for people to build meaningful, long-lasting and successful careers. And this is only looking to grow as the government, alongside ukactive, are invested in helping gyms, pools and leisure facilities to reach more than five million new members by 2030.
This ambition for sustainable growth can be supported through apprenticeships. Centres can use active leisure apprenticeships to invest in multi-skilled training for team members, recruit and retain talent, and support improvements in social mobility.
Our experience in the Active Leisure sector
Our Active Leisure partners
Why choose Lifetime for leisure apprenticeships?
Recruit and retain
Training all your teams
Specialist teams
Advanced data and reporting
Our Active Leisure apprenticeship programmes
Our apprenticeship programmes are scalable, delivered with first-class teaching.
Contact us for more information on these programmes.
Why use our apprenticeship service?
Fill your vacancies
We recruit over 5,000 people every year into life-changing career opportunities, helping our partners to build a future-ready workforce. Working in partnership with your managers, we attract, screen and shortlist the best candidates and get them interview-ready, so your managers save time and you recruit quickly.
Strategic approach
Working with you, our partnership consultants help shape your apprenticeship strategy to maximise your levy and realise your objectives. Whether this is changing your approach to team member skills and staffing or exploring new roles to future-proof your business. We also develop Impact Evaluation Reports to review the impact of apprenticeships on your business and suggest recommendations for ongoing improvements.
Social mobility, diversity and inclusion
Recruiting externally and improving access to training reaches and empowers more people in underrepresented communities, disadvantaged locations and low socio-economic groups. By driving social mobility and building a more inclusive workforce, you'll gain far more than just increased apprentice numbers.
Embracing a digital approach
Learners experience self-led delivery, tailored to working patterns and learning requirements through our cutting-edge online learning platform, Aptem. It's a system that minimises interruptions to learning, fully integrated with day-to-day roles to create a seamless e-learning journey. Supported by an expert coach, learners are guided through clear learning plans, from enrolment through to End-point Assessment.
Read our Active Leisure apprenticeship case studies
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Apprenticeships fit for the future
A switch to purely external training means Nuffield Health now optimises its levy. Here’s how we’re aligning apprenticeships to its latest strategy, The Big Build. -
Raising the bar of apprenticeships
With a partnership lasting almost two decades so far, Lifetime is proud to have been at the forefront of unlocking Places Leisure's workforce potential. -
Driving social mobility
We're working with Coach Core to provide opportunities for all. Together, we’re leading the charge in supporting diversity, inclusion and social mobility.
New to apprenticeships? Or looking for a boost to your existing programme? We're here to help. Let’s talk apprenticeships.
Speak to our teamThanks to Lifetime’s energy and passion we have been able to change the lives of so many people around the UK and help the communities around us. The learning coaches play a vital role in not just the education progression of each apprentice, but across their everyday lives too.
