Who We Are

Founded in 1974, Babington provides high-quality training across a growing number of sectors, from accounting to technology. At Babington, our mission statement is ” to be globally recognised as a valued and trusted partner unlocking potential through a bold passion for learning”.

Babington has a unique collaborative culture in which the senior team instils an open, honest and people orientated ethos to encourage a real sense of belonging. This creates a common sense of purpose around developing better futures for people.

Babington’s people are central to the success of all of our services and products. This is achieved through the group’s people orientated culture, which seeks to promote development, innovation and best practice.

As part of the group’s focus on developing its own people, Babington introduced an advanced talent management programme, which has been integrated into the business plan. The aim of this is to aid the identification of staff with the right skill sets and to nurture internal talent with a view to filling key management and leadership positions in the future.

What We Do

Seeing the big picture

At Babington, we take a comprehensive approach. We work with employers, and those at all points of their career path, to provide the following:

• Traineeships: designed to help young people (16-24) develop the skills needed to succeed in the workplace.
• Study programmes: these enhance future employment prospects by focusing on the specific training needs of the individual.
• Apprenticeships: offering real industry experience alongside nationally recognised qualifications to kick-start successful careers.
• Professional courses: helping aspiring and existing professionals within a range of industries take the next step up the career ladder
• Bespoke training: we work with a wide variety of employers to meet their training needs, whether it’s recruiting new apprentices or developing current members of staff

How We Work

At Babington, we don’t just offer training and qualifications. We aim to be the best in the industry, holding ourselves to impeccable standards.

Values

We believe that doing things in the right way is critical to us developing the culture and behaviours that will enable us to meet our vision and deliver on our purpose. As a business, we will be focused on the values below and will align the recruitment and performance management of our people to actively encourage and champion these values. As a leadership team, we will actively call out positive examples of these values and seek to demonstrate these wherever possible:

Brave – We are brave and challenge the status quo, embracing difference and change.

Caring – We do the right thing and are committed to working together collaboratively.

Curious – We are constantly curious, actively finding out how things work and why exploring how we may do things differently to succeed.

Determined – We are driven to ensure we achieve and take accountability for our results

Passionate –  We are passionate about delivering the highest quality of service to build a legacy of excellence.

Trusted – We build effective relationships based upon trust by consistently doing what we commit to.

Customer Experience

Our aim is to transform the way in which we deliver our services to our customers and learners and provide a consistent and differentiated experience that delivers on our purpose, our mission and our values.

We will drive a customer-focused approach in everything that we do and really ensure that this permeates throughout the whole business. In order to do this, we will deliver relentlessly on our new.

Customer Promise:

We are so committed to our mission we want to ensure that our promise is real so that you can say:

– Babington are curious about my needs as a customer– You truly understand me!

– You have made my experience memorable from my welcome and throughout my journey

– I feel I receive a timely personalised service that is relevant to my organisation and my expectations

– You have provided effortless ways for me to give feedback and in a way that works for me

– You have been clear to me about what I can expect, and you have delivered what you committed to.

– We trust your expertise and we know that you do the right thing for us

– You will positively challenge if there is a better way to do things

– You cared to provide the right advice and guidance with clear direction for the future

– You make your processes simple and easy so that it is effortless for us

In exchange what we would ask you to do for us:

– Give us honest and open feedback when we get I right or when we don’t hit the mark so that we can constantly improve what we do

– If you have had a great experience tell your colleagues and partners about it so they can experience it too

– Continue to progress your learning journey with us in to develop better futures

To view the Babington Gender Pay Gap Report for both 2018 and 2019, please click on either of the below buttons to download the documents in a PDF format.