The Birmingham Award employer support

We are proud to deliver The Birmingham Award with employer supporters from a range of sectors.

The following employers are supporting The Birmingham Award for the 2026/27 academic year. Each employer will deliver a session for students enrolled on The Birmingham Award. 

Atos

Atos support The Birmingham AwardAtos design digital solutions from the everyday to the mission critical - in artificial intelligence, hybrid cloud, infrastructure management, decarbonization and employee experience.

At Atos, we’re helping design an AI-powered digital future. By bringing together the best people, technologies and partners, we power digital transformation every day.

From mission-critical environments to cloud and cyber services, we meet clients where they are and take them where they need to go. Our technologies are seamless, secure, and built with sustainability at their core. With innovation embedded in everything we do, we’re reinventing tomorrow for our clients, our people and society at large. Together, we’re shaping the future of digital.

We are a 70,000-strong team with a clear ambition: to apply digital technology to advance what matters for our clients and society at large in 69 countries. Every day, we work together to create reliable and responsive digital foundations for the world’s businesses, institutions and communities.

This website gives you a flavor of who we are and what we offer. You’ll find more about our solutions in detail on our website: atos.net.

RSK Group

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RSK Group is a specialist environmental and engineering consultancy and our family of over 200 environmental, engineering, and technical services businesses works together to provide practical solutions to some of the greatest challenges societies have ever faced.

Their global headquarters is in the UK, and with more than 16,000 staff worldwide, operating in most sectors of the economy, including many of those most critical to future global sustainability, such as water, energy, food and drink, infrastructure, urban development, mining, and waste. Please visit the RSK Group website for more information.

Talbots Law

Talbots Law support The Birmingham Award

Talbots Law is one of the UK's largest employee-owned law firms, providing legal services to individuals, families and businesses across the Midlands and beyond. Established in 1828, Talbots has grown to a team of more than 600 colleagues operating from multiple locations across the West Midlands, Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Shropshire and Cheshire.

With Birmingham and the Black Country at the heart of the region we serve, we are proud to play an active role in supporting local communities, businesses and future talent.As an employee-owned business, every colleague has a personal stake in the Company's success, creating a culture built around our people proposition: Belong, Contribute, Thrive.

We believe everyone should feel they belong in an inclusive and supportive community, contribute their skills and ideas to meaningful work, and thrive through opportunities for growth, development and wellbeing.Talbots Law offers expertise across a wide range of legal services and is recognised by leading legal directories including Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500.

We are proud to support initiatives that help students develop their skills, broaden their professional networks and gain insight into rewarding career opportunities, helping to develop the next generation of talent for Birmingham, the Black Country and the wider Midlands.  

Volkswagen Group UK

 

Volkswagen Group UK

Volkswagen Group UK represents one in every five new cars on UK roads, comprising of these core brands: Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, CUPRA, Škoda, and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.

In addition, we are proud to be part of a wider family that includes iconic sister brands such as Ducati and Porsche.At the heart of our business is our people. We offer a range of entry pathways for ambitious individuals, including Undergraduate, Graduate, and Apprenticeship programmes, as well as entry-level roles. These opportunities span across diverse areas such as Marketing, Finance, Product Planning, and more. Empowering our people to grow and thrive across the organisation. 

 

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