Town Hall

Coach Core’s Town Halls are a chance for us to provide some updates about what we’ve been doing and what we’re planning to do. Crucially, they’re also an opportunity for us to get feedback on those updates and to hear from you!

Our Town Halls are open to anyone in the wider Coach Core network including:, employers, apprentices, graduates, funders, donors, partners – and we’re very happy for people just learning about us to join too.

Town Halls take place twice a year (Spring and Autumn), online, and usually last 1 hour, running over lunchtime.

Our next Town Hall will take place on Wednesday, 15 April, at 12:00 pm.

Join us as we bring together employers, funders, partners, apprentices and supporters to explore the findings from our 2025 Impact Report.

In a year where youth unemployment continued to rise and entry-level opportunities declined, Coach Core created 113 new starts, and reached 1.5 million community participants. But this session goes beyond headline numbers.

Led by Laura Larsson, our Research and Impact Manager, we will unpack what the data really tells us, from progression rates and social value, to the realities facing small employers and young people in the most deprived communities. Laura will be joined by some of the Apprentices featured in the report, sharing their lived experiences behind the statistics and reflecting on what access to opportunity has meant in practice.

April’s Town Hall will also highlight our recent call to Government, where we set out clear recommendations for strengthening access to entry level apprenticeships, improving capacity and stability for SMEs, and ensuring that disadvantaged young people can access high‑quality employment opportunities. We will discuss how our insights and your experiences, are informing these proposals, and what collective action is needed to ensure policymakers respond.

Together, we’ll explore:

• What our 2025 data reveals about disadvantage, progression and inclusion
• The wider social and economic value being generated (£32,700 per Apprentice)
• What we’ve learned from independent SME research and system-level influencing
• How our research has shaped this year’s policy proposals to Government and what change we are asking for
• How this evidence is shaping our priorities for 2026

This is not just a report-back. It is a shared conversation about what works, where complexity remains, and how we strengthen pathways into meaningful education and employment together.

We hope you can join us!