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The UK gov has a database of all apprenticeship vacancies in England (think Wales & Scotland have something similar).

You can get the vacancies via an API. I built the site to get all the vacancies for Sheffield. Local branding matters because most young people live at home when they do an apprenticeship (unlike university).

Building the site was pretty easy once I'd understood SSG and incremental regeneration. I've kept the design as clean as possible.

Next job is a dynamic sitemap, then some improvements to the vacancy details page and maybe some kind of location based filter/search.

Got to keep it as simple as possible - I spend maybe a couple of hours a week on it.

Apprenticeships in the UK are in demand (young people looking for alternatives to university & debt), supply of good quality ones is limited though. Sheffield has about 60,000 uni students and only around 200 apprenticeship vacancies at any time.