Home About Our Brands Team Contact
Our Brands

Three brilliant brands.
One shared ambition.

Each BrightPeak brand has built its own reputation, community, and track record. All three are Ofsted Good. Together, they cover England from the Midlands to the coast.

Workpays
Midlands · 10 locations
Workpays

Workpays

Founded 2011 · Headquartered in Derby
Ofsted Good — May 2022 (all six categories)

Workpays is a leading training and employability skills provider, based in the Midlands. Workpays supports thousands of people and hundreds of businesses every year to help advance their employment journey.

With ten sites across the Midlands, Workpays is continuing to expand the number of people it can support, including through its apprenticeship offering — which won the 2021 and 2023 FE Week-AELP Award for Legal, Finance and Accounting Apprenticeship Provider of the Year, as well as the 2022 FE Week Award for Promoting Apprenticeships.

FE Week-AELP Award — Legal, Finance & Accounting (2021 & 2023)
FE Week Award — Promoting Apprenticeships (2022)
Visit workpays.co.uk ↗

East of England · 4 locations
WS Training

WS Training

Founded 1995 · Headquartered in Great Barton, Suffolk
Ofsted Good — August 2022 (all categories)

WS Training is one of the biggest training providers in the East of England. WS Training works with businesses across the country to ensure their workforce has the skills they need to succeed and grow in their careers.

Closer to home, across four sites in Suffolk, it supports hundreds of learners each year — including those with special educational needs — giving them the confidence and ability to step onto the career ladder. Their distinctive Manor Barn venue in the Suffolk countryside is consistently praised as a uniquely inspiring place to learn.

WS Training also offers a wide range of commercial training courses, from construction and health & safety to management, leadership, and professional development — delivered from their sites and to businesses nationwide.

WS Training

Orangebox Training Solutions
North East & Tees Valley · 1 HQ

Orangebox

Founded 2016 · Tranquility House, Hartlepool Marina
Ofsted Good — April 2024 (all categories)

Orangebox is one of the North East's leading training providers, offering a range of education, skills and employability support for individuals and organisations. Founded in 2016 by Simon Corbett after 23 years in law enforcement, Orangebox was built on a belief that training should be genuinely different: engaging, memorable, and transformative.

With the majority of those it teaches finding long-term sustainable employment, Orangebox is also deployed by businesses to help grow their team and team capacity. Orangebox offers a wide range of commercial training — from first aid and manual handling to leadership, management and bespoke business skills — partnering with companies of all sizes to deliver government-funded and commercial training.

Visit orangeboxtraining.com ↗
Work with our brands

Looking to partner with us?

Our brands collectively cover the Midlands, East of England, and North East. Use our collaboration form on the contact page to tell us about your organisation.

Contact us