Capita and the British Army’s Recruitment Partnership Project (RPP) recently celebrated winning Marketing Week’s Long-term Brand Building Excellence award.

While many companies may have paid lip service to the issue of racism in 2020, the unconscious, and sometimes explicit, bias of racism runs deep.

It’s become a cliché but the Covid-19 storm has not found us all in the same boat. The impact on income, on employment, even on the chances of contracting the virus and recovering, is hugely influenced by three factors – ethnicity, gender and poverty.

Can debt really be considered good? And do we need more of it? At Tortoise Media’s recent ‘The Future of Money’ event I was invited to consider this alongside finance coach and author of Black Girl Finance, Selina Flavius, and the co-author of Angrynomics, Eric Lonergan.

I had the pleasure of attending a recent webinar hosted by the Conservative Friends of the Armed Forces network.

World Youth Skills Day (15th July) comes as youth unemployment is soaring due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The 1st April 2021 marked Service Commencement Day 1 (SCD 1) ‘day one’ of Capita’s 12-year training modernisation contract with the Royal Navy and Royal Marines, commencing the newest chapter of Capita’s strategic relationship with defence and partnership with the MoD

Capita is undoubtedly an organisation with a good deal of its DNA in defence and security. We have worked with the Ministry of Defence for over a decade, and in January 2021 announced the latest demonstration of our MoD pedigree with a 10-year defence training contract with the Royal Navy.

We support over 8,000 apprentices to achieve their respective apprenticeship programmes every year across a broad range of subjects.

We’ve been partners with the British Army since 2012 to deliver the end-to-end recruitment and training of all British Army military personnel.