Griffiths & Armour were delighted to welcome back Regeneration Brainery students to our Liverpool offices, offering insight into a career in insurance. The students (‘Brainees’) were joined by colleagues from across our General Insurance and Professional Indemnity Construction Teams to showcase the relevance and importance of insurance within the property and construction industry.
Regeneration Brainery is a social enterprise and non-profit academy that works with young people across the UK, with a mission to make the property and construction sectors more inclusive, diverse, and accessible.
Founded in 2017, the organisation now supports around 4,000 young people nationwide. By partnering with a wide range of industry specialists, it helps participants explore careers in property and regeneration—as well as the many connected pathways, including insurance. Through practical insight and meaningful guidance, Regeneration Brainery equips young people with the knowledge and confidence they need as they take their first steps into working life. Through its Brainees programme, Regeneration Brainery provides week-long academies, mentoring, and practical experiences that introduce young people to careers in property and the built environment. This helps bridge the gap between education and employment and develops a diverse future talent pipeline.
The Brainees took part in an exciting game of ‘Discover Risk’ in which the concepts of risk and hazard were explained and provided a fun way for the students to learn. The results were close, however, the aptly named ‘May the Policy be With You’ poached the win!
Following this, the Brainees were tasked with completing a risk and hazard map assessment of the local area, focusing on the existing real estate and ongoing development schemes in place. This was to assist the Brainees in their final presentation, in which they were tasked with presenting a newly concepted idea – project to redevelop the Kings Dock site, here in Liverpool. Many of the Brainees utilised their newfound knowledge of the insurance industry within their projects, being able to demonstrate how integral this is to construction and property.
As Regeneration Brainery provide an the Brainees with valuable work experience and insight into their future, Griffiths & Armour hosted an employability session with the young people which covered, CV building, building their network and creating opportunities.
On working with Regeneration Brainery and the Brainees, Griffiths & Armour Claims Executive, George Heron said:
Whilst care has been taken in the production of this article and the information contained within it has been obtained from sources that Griffiths & Armour, an Aon company, believes to be reliable, Griffiths & Armour, an Aon company does not warrant, represent or guarantee the accuracy, adequacy, completeness or fitness for any purpose of the article or any part of it and can accept no liability for any loss incurred in any way whatsoever by any person who may rely on it. In any case any recipient shall be entirely responsible for the use to which it puts this article.“I have supported this initiative since Griffiths & Armour partnered with Regeneration Brainery in 2024, and taking part in the bootcamps has become one of the most enjoyable aspects of my role. It is great to help open the door to the insurance industry for young people, giving them a clear view of who Griffiths & Armour are and why our work matters. I’m confident each student will go on to succeed”.
This article has been compiled using information available to us up to 18 November 2025
