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 2025/26 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.

Civil Service Fast Stream

 

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Unleash your future leadership potential. Join the Fast Stream and you’ll be encouraged, enabled and empowered to shape your way forward and tackle the issues that matter to you and UK life.

Supporting the government of the day to implement its policies effectively on behalf of every community across the UK, the Civil Service touches every aspect of life. Our award-winning Fast Stream programme develops talented, high-potential people to become future Civil Service leaders.

Offering access to roles in just about every government department, the Fast Stream opens up a huge range of opportunities for you to explore. And because we look at your talent, not your background, age or degree subject, there’s nothing to stand in your way.

All you need is an open mind and the determination to succeed, and we’ll invest in you.

Why we are a great place to work

As The Times Top 100 Number 1 Graduate Employer for the fourth year running, we’re proud to be a great place to work. We’re also a Disability Confident Leader Employer, and prominent on the Social Mobility Employer Index.

Join us, and you’ll be a valued member of the wider Civil Service community, where people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds can form lasting friendships and connect with supportive networks. While these are full time roles, our flexible working arrangements will give you space to achieve a work life balance that works for you.

InStudents

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InStudents is an award-winning social enterprise committed to promoting educational equity and creating opportunities for students globally. Our vision is to empower every student with the resources, skills, and opportunities needed to succeed, no matter their background. Our mission is to bridge the gap between students from under-represented regions and the global academic landscape by offering educational tools, career guidance, and scholarships.

Through projects like the Equal Opportunities Project (EQOP) and the innovative SkillPort platform, we help students develop their skills and unlock pathways to success. Additionally, the Impact Champions Programme fosters leadership and personal growth among university students.

InStudents also collaborates closely with universities, helping them reach a more diverse student population and making international student recruitment more sustainable and impactful.

JLR

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Jaguar Land Rover's (JLR) Reimagine strategy is delivering a sustainability-rich vision of modern luxury by design, through our global House of Brands. Range Rover. Defender. Discovery. Jaguar.

We are the proud creators. The curious minds. Inspired to create unique vehicles, to realise our vision of modern luxury. We work as one. Shaping the future. Motivated by a love for our customer. Our passion to chart new landscapes of innovation, encourages us to dream. It’s what drives us. To be visionaries. To be creators.

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.

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.

 

 

 

West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA)

 

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Led by the Mayor of the West Midlands, the WMCA brings together 18 local councils to oversee the transfer of powers and funding from Whitehall to the West Midlands.

The WMCA is putting these new powers from government back where they belong, in local hands, bringing the region together to build a healthier, happier, better connected and more prosperous West Midlands.

Billions of pounds are being invested by the WMCA to improve the region’s transport network, transform its derelict industrial land into new homes and workplaces, support existing businesses and help grow the innovative, green industries of the future.

At the heart of this vision is a strong economy that is both green and inclusive, one that supports the region’s ambition to be net zero carbon by 2041 and offers everyone the opportunity of a good quality, affordable home and the skills needed for a worthwhile job.

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