Lee Marley Group
Morgan O’Sullivan, Lee Marley Academy Apprentice
Millie-Rose Doyle, Lee Marley Academy Apprentice
BUILDING A POSITIVE FUTURE Lee Marley Group has been honoured by His Majesty The King for transforming social mobility through its award-winning apprenticeship and graduate programmes
Founded in 1997, Lee Marley Group is one of the UK’s largest integrated masonry and scaffold specialist subcontractors, delivering brickwork, stonework and scaffolding for large-scale residential and commercial developments. Operating from offices in London, Reading and Glasgow, the Group works with the UK’s leading house builders and construction companies, including Berkeley Group, Barratt Developments, Morgan Sindall, Kier Group, Wates and Vistry Group.
secure employment and ensuring a sustainable talent pipeline within the built environment.
Apprenticeship programmes Lee Marley Group has delivered brickwork and scaffolding apprenticeship programmes since 2014, working in partnership with colleges across the UK. The Lee Marley Academy was launched in September 2023 in partnership with London South Bank Technical College (LSBTC), in order to meet the demands of their successful training programmes and manage their cohorts in line with social value obligations, creating more capacity to support disadvantaged groups in the areas they operate. The Academy delivers a brickwork apprenticeship programme that extends beyond standard industry provision, with increased classroom, workshop and on-site training time based on an intensive block-release model. The programme begins with a one-month paid work trial, giving candidates the opportunity to experience life on site before fully committing. Those who progress alternate between block periods of college-based learning, combining classroom theory and practical workshop sessions with hands-on experience at a live construction site. Each apprentice receives a starter tool pack and PPE worth over £1,000, is paid from day one, and has pay reviewed at structured performance milestones. Apprentices who join straight from GCSEs can qualify as fully trained bricklayers before the age of 18, up to two years ahead of the industry norm. Many of the apprentices progress into senior roles, offering
Promoting opportunity and social mobility Lee Marley Group’s programmes support a broad range of participants, including young people from low-income households, those from schools with below-average attainment, individuals with physical or mental disabilities, people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, and those at risk of becoming NEET (not in education, employment or training). • Approximately 47% of participants are from disadvantaged backgrounds. • Around 40% are from BAME backgrounds. • Around 20% are female (five times the national construction average). Notable achievements include apprentice Morgan O’Sullivan, who became the first female national finalist in her category at the Guild of Bricklayers competition, and was recognised as Most Influential One to Watch, 2025 in Construction . She has since joined the Academy as a Trainee Tutor, supporting the next generation of apprentices. Mukthar Mohammed, another stand out apprentice, was shortlisted for the 2025 ABC Apprentice of the year award and came in second place in the Guild of Bricklayers London regional heat in February 2026.
Lee Marley , CEO, Lee Marley Group
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