The Apprentice Store

The Apprentice Store offers a growing range of products and services for our clients from our Inverness HQ. We have a range of products and service-based offerings for our customers to choose from based on their needs. We operate a managed helpdesk for our service delivery which ensures that all our IT support and project work is tracked and managed in a single IT system.

When you ask The Apprentice Store to look after your IT services, you get to work with our team of young people and their mentors who care about delivering a high quality service to all our clients. Our services are what you would expect from any capable IT service provider but unlike many providers, we have a unique social goal at our core as we do not have shareholders.

A risk that businesses of all sizes face today, regardless of their location, is the threat of a cyber security attack. Criminals recognise that they are able to target computer systems around the world at the press of a button and have identified how they can financially benefit from cybercrime.

Small and micro businesses may not feel that they are a target for these criminals as their data is of no value, however, we recognise that whilst they may not be directly targeted, small and micro businesses can and do suffer the effects of cybercrime either directly or indirectly.The criminals potentially do not see any value in the data within a small business, but they know that the data is of value to the business.

We recognise the value that IT systems offer a modern business along with the challenges that they face in getting a return on that investment. We focus on supporting small and micro business networks as they typically do not operate with dedicated internal IT staff. Whilst many may seek to employ a young person for their support, their need is not full time and so they choose to contract with a specialist IT support person or company.

Our mentors are highly capable and experienced IT consultants who have worked in the industry for many years and within multiple industry sectors. We have specifically selected them because of their experience so they can pass that knowledge on to our young people. However, we recognise that larger client projects may not always be able to support the involvement of a young person.