We believe that there should be ‘no barriers to entry and no limits to ambition’. And we want to give people the chance to shine. With the best training and development programmes in the business, we're the place you can build your career.

Whitbread's Investing in Skills & Employment scheme aims to create 6,500 jobs, 6,000 apprenticeships and 7,500 placements by 2020. We help our team members develop their careers through continual training, whatever their age or ability.

We’re passionate about creating an environment where everyone can reach their potential, with no barriers to entry and no limits to ambition. We recognise that diverse teams bring significant business benefits and we must cultivate the environment for diversity of thought to flourish.

We have a partnership with Derwen College, a specialist residential education centre for young people with learning difficulties and disabilities, who specialise in training students in skills needed to be independent and prepared for the workplace. To ensure training is effective, in 2016 we opened a fully functioning Premier Inn training centre at the college. After training at the college, students are given work experience opportunities in local Premier Inn sites which hopefully go on to become permanent positions in our hotels across the country.

A year later, we’re celebrating our first year since the opening of the facility and looking forward to what’s to come. 

We’re proud to serve safe, good quality and great-tasting food and drink. We want to make it easy for our customers to choose healthier eating options and indulge in the occasional treat. All our menus are free from artificial trans fats, MSG, GM products and ingredients, irradiated ingredients and mechanically recovered meat.

We support the Department of Health's Responsibility Deal pledge on salt reduction. We’re working with our suppliers to reduce salt, sugar, saturated fat and calorie levels in our restaurant dishes.

We’ve been the national charity partner of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity since 2012. We committed to raising £7.5m by 2017 to build the Premier Inn Clinical Building, a new, much-needed facility. We are delighted to have exceeded that goal, with team members, guests and suppliers helping us raise more than £10m to date.

The Premier Inn Clinical Building was officially opened by HRH The Duchess of Cambridge in January 2018. This fantastic new building has seven floors and covers eight clinical areas of expertise. Children can move into brand new, modern wards with en-suite bedrooms, and space for parents to comfortably stay with their child overnight.

Our customers trust us to responsibly source the high-quality, good-value products they enjoy. We only work with suppliers who share our values and embrace the high standards we set. These include upholding human rights, food safety, ethical sourcing, animal welfare legislation, supply chain security to minimise food fraud, and not polluting the environment.

We source Farm Assured beef from the UK & Ireland, and our milk from Red Tractor Standard-assured British farms. We’re the first UK hotel and restaurant chain to sustainably source all wild-caught fish to MSC certification standards.

We open hundreds of restaurants and new hotel rooms every year. Everything we build is to the highest sustainable standards, and our existing estate is continually refurbished and retrofitted with energy-efficient equipment and building materials.

We recognise the important role sustainability plays when building our hotels. That’s why we have also fitted an extra 21 sites with solar panels this year giving us a total of over 100 sites with solar panels.