Our Current Partners
WES is grateful for the support, in the form of partnership, sponsorship, and collaborations from many organisations.
We have a range of partnership options available. Find out more here
Company Partners
FM Global
Company Partner
FM Global is a mutual insurer dedicated to property risk management and client resilience. Serving many of the world’s largest organizations, FM believes most property loss is preventable. To support our business and diverse workforce, FM partners with WES to address the under-representation of women and champion their vital contribution to engineering.
Leonardo
Company Partner
Leonardo is a UK aerospace and defence supplier, employing approximately 8,000 skilled people across seven main sites. Globally, the company is a top ten player in Aerospace, Defence, and Security, with over 49,000 employees. In 2021, Leonardo recorded €14.1 billion in revenues, underpinned by a significant €1.8 billion investment in Research and Development.
Nestle
Company Partner
Nestlé is the world’s largest food and beverage company, offering over 2,000 brands globally. Our purpose is to unlock the power of food to enhance quality of life. In the UK and Ireland, we employ around 8,000 people across multiple sites, producing a diverse range of products from healthcare nutrition and water to confectionery and petcare.
Allianz
Company Partner
Allianz Engineering, part of Allianz SE, specializes in impartial engineering inspection and risk services for commercial and industrial sectors across the UK and Ireland. Our Engineer Surveyors ensure legal compliance and public safety by identifying equipment defects. We joined WES to access their expertise and connect with a wide pool of female engineering talent for our niche requirements.
AB Dynamics
Company Partner
AB Dynamics is a global supplier of automotive test and verification solutions, essential for the safe development of active safety and autonomous systems. Serving top vehicle manufacturers and test facilities worldwide, the company offers unique technology—including Driving Robots and simulators—for vehicle dynamics, ADAS, and driverless car evaluation, enhancing industrial productivity and efficiency.
Airbus
Company Partner
At the forefront of innovation, Airbus is an international pioneer in the aerospace industry and a leader in designing, manufacturing and delivering aerospace products, services and solutions to customers on a global scale.
At Airbus, we draw on each other’s expertise and experience and put our shared passion into exploring sustainable aerospace developments – connecting to the best minds, making bold decisions, finding smart solutions and getting the world’s most advanced technologies off the ground. We look for candidates with curiosity and drive who want to make a difference.
As part of inclusion & diversity, Airbus continues with our relationship with WES in educating girls in schools about their career choice in engineering. The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) provides support and encouragement in this field along with participating in STEM returners.
Amazon
Company Partner
When Amazon.com launched in 1995, it was with the mission “to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavours to offer its customers the lowest possible prices.” This goal continues today, but Amazon’s customers are worldwide now, and have grown to include millions of Consumers, Sellers, Content Creators, and Developers & Enterprises. Each of these groups has different needs, and we always work to meet those needs, innovating new solutions to make things easier, faster, better, and more cost-effective.
AstraZeneca
Company Partner
AstraZeneca are a global, science-led, patient-focused pharmaceutical business. We are committed to excellence in the research, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines. We aim to transform the lives of patients with improved outcomes and a better quality of life.
Biffa
Company Partner
With over 100 years of expertise, Biffa is an established leader of sustainable waste management in the UK. Our purpose is to change the way people think about waste and our team of over 10,000 key workers provide unrivalled end-to-end waste and recycling solutions for thousands of businesses and millions of households each day.
Underpinned by our low carbon collection network, we’re at the forefront of enabling the UK circular economy by continuing to build our plastic recycling capacity, investing in energy recovery and developing best in class engineering solutions for our processes.
Bombadier
Company Partner
At Bombardier we are dedicated to excellence in aircraft maintenance and safety. As a leader in the industry, we value diversity, inclusivity, and collaboration. We prioritize the well-being and professional growth of our team members, fostering an environment where everyone can thrive and contribute to our success.
Cadent
Company Partner
Cadent Gas bring gas to 11 million homes and businesses throughout the North West, West Midlands, East Midlands, East of England and North London. We’re committed to keeping you safe and warm. We also manage the National Gas Emergency Service on behalf of the gas industry.
ADM
Company Partner
ADM purchase, transport and transform crops, connecting farmers to consumers, touching millions of lives daily. Learn more about how our team connects the harvest to homes around the world. Whether we’re helping farmers ensure that their crops meet customers’ needs, moving products efficiently, or using our insights and expertise to create and improve solutions, ADM is a global leader.
Atlas Copco
Company Partner
Atlas Copco’s vision is to become (and remain) First in Mind—First in Choice for our customers and other stakeholders.
Our mission is to achieve sustainable, profitable growth. This means that we should continuously deliver profitable growth with an increased positive impact on society and the environment. We provide everyone within our organization with support and inspiration to learn and grow. We also include the perspectives of different stakeholders, like customers and society, when we create value.
BOC Linde
Company Partner
As the UK and Ireland’s leading provider of industrial, medical and special gases, our products play an essential, but invisible role in an enormous range of industries. For over 140 years, we’ve partnered with businesses like yours to help you deliver quality products and services that keep your customers thriving.
Caterpillar Inc
Company Partner
For more than a century, Caterpillar has built a better, more sustainable world. Caterpillar Inc. is shaping the future as the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives.
Backed by one of the largest independent global dealer networks and financing services through Cat Financial, the company’s primary business segments: Power and Energy, Construction Industries and Resource Industries are solving customers’ toughest challenges through a commitment to commercial excellence and advanced technology. All of this is made possible by our highly talented and dedicated team.
Capula
Company Partner
With a focus on operational technology and digital transformation, Capula has been a leader in advanced system integration for decades; optimising energy efficiency, intelligent asset management and delivering operational performance for asset and energy intensive clients.
Delivering critical technical solutions ranging across automation control, panel build, cyber security, digitalisation and industrial operational technology (OT) programmes, we can ensure the integrity, safety and security of complex solutions across the industrial landscape responding to the challenges you face today and in the future.
We enable our clients to safely operate and control some of the most strategically important facilities in the UK.
Cubic
Company Partner
Founded more than 70 years ago, Cubic is built on a history of creating and delivering technology solutions that make the world better. Cubic is a technology-driven, market-leading global provider of innovative, mission-critical solutions that reduce congestion and increase operational effectiveness and readiness through superior situational understanding. We believe in creating excellence through teamwork and collaboration, upholding a commitment to ethics and integrity through a distinct culture that focuses on collaboration, agility, accountability and execution.
Defence Equipment & Support
Company Partner
The UK and our allies face increasing threats to our security and way of life. Our armed forces protect us from these threats, but they can only do that if they have the right equipment and support to carry out their duties. That’s where we come in.
Defence Equipment & Support (DE&S) is proud to deliver world-class equipment and support services to the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force. We play a critical role in keeping our nation safe and prosperous, making sure the front-lines have the right kit at the right time.
Equans
Company Partner
Equans is a provider of technical services, FM, regeneration and energy services – with specialist capabilities in smart buildings, green mobility, district & embedded energy and decentralised renewables. Our 15,000 employees combine these activities to help businesses, public sector organisations and government to embrace the energy transition towards net zero – and also the digital & industrial transitions that are together redesigning the way we move, work and live.
As a sustainable facilities management company, our integrated facilities management and maintenance services support the demands organisations by providing a safe and inspirational environment within workplaces and across local communities.
Frazer Nash
Company Partner
At Frazer-Nash we help organizations successfully deliver innovative systems, engineering and technology solutions to make lives safe, secure, sustainable, and affordable.
Our people are at the very heart of what we do, and this is why we are committed to fostering a working culture that brings out the very best in our people. We are delivering a roadmap of activities that is driving forward our ambitions to improve diversity and inclusion within Frazer-Nash.
As a partner of the Women’s Engineering Society, we are dedicated to working with them to inspire, attract and retain women in engineering and technology professions.
Genesis
Company Partner
Genesis is a market-leading consulting company focused on providing high-value advisory services for the energy industry. As trusted advisors committed to a sustainable future, we have extensive experience working in true partnership with our clients while providing innovative, robust and sustainable solutions.
By cultivating our extraordinary talent across our 15 global locations, we employ new and dynamic thinking by using digital tools, embracing change and constantly seeking new opportunities to make a real and lasting impact on the industry.
Harwin
Company Partner
Harwin makes superior products of the highest quality for demanding applications.
This is no idle boast. As an EN 9100 / AS9100D certified manufacturer, we focus on quality, safety and technology. We continually improve our quality systems and invest in advanced manufacturing & automation.
Helping you solve your connection challenges is our passion. We back this up with amazing global support and agile response to your needs. We bring you innovative, dependable connector technologies; and we deliver them reliably, quickly and cost-effectively.
Hill & Smith
Company Partner
In recent years we have seen strong organic growth and margin expansion in our US businesses, which operate in a range of structurally growing end markets including investment in the electrical grid, roads and bridges, and industrial infrastructure.
Industrial infrastructure includes the physical investment in data centres, semiconductor and EV plants, and more general investment in industrial plants linked to onshoring. The scale of some of these projects is significant and multi-year, in many instances funded jointly by public and private sector. The construction of almost any type of industrial plant plays well to Hill & Smith. We are able to galvanize the steel, supply the cooling towers and composite products, such as cable trays, and supply engineered supports.
Hilton
Company Partner
Hilton is a leading global hospitality company with 24 world-class brands, 8,400+ properties, and 1.25 million+ rooms in 140 countries. Dedicated to fulfilling its founding vision to fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality, Hilton has welcomed 3 billion guests in its 100+-year history, earning accolades like No. 1 World’s Best Workplace and recognition on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices. The award-winning guest loyalty programme Hilton Honors, with more than 210 million members, offers exclusive benefits and seamless booking through its app, allowing guests to manage their stay from their smartphone.
HMD Kontro Sealless Pumps
Company Partner
In 1947, the very first sealless magnetic drive pump was developed by HMD Kontro, breaking new ground in pump and fluid handling technology. For more of our illustrious history in sealless pump design and development
HMD Kontro pumps are particularly suitable for situations involving high temperatures, high viscosity, high value, high pressures and volatile substances.
Sealless magnetic drive pumps are the first choice for a wide range of applications, especially in industries involving toxic substances as well as for fine, corrosive and aggressive liquids.
Laing O’Rourke
Company Partner
Laing O’Rourke is an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, security – that’s what our client’s want. And, at Laing O’Rourke, we have over 150 years of experience delivering it.
Our highly-trained and committed people understand the challenges of modern construction, the stakeholders involved, and how to work collaboratively to manage the process and achieve our client’s aims.
We combine this expertise with purposeful technology, wielding innovations like engineering and AI to yield powerful results.
In a sector where diversity remains unacceptably low, we announced far-reaching global sustainability targets in April 2021, including a commitment to achieve equal numbers of men and women among our global staff base by 2033.
MEPC
Company Partner
Since our inception as the Metropolitan Estates & Property Corporation by Claude Moss Leigh in 1946, MEPC has been a prominent name in UK property, listed on the London Stock Exchange and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
In 2020 we were acquired by Federated Hermes — a global leader in active, responsible investment — to enhance its Private Markets proposition by adding our specialist asset and development management expertise to its existing capabilities.
In 2021, we celebrated our 75th anniversary, becoming one of only a handful of UK real estate companies to reach such a milestone.
Moog
Company Partner
Founded in 1951 by Bill Moog with a bold vision to empower people and solve tough problems through trust and innovation, our company grew from a small airplane hangar in East Aurora into a global leader in aerospace, defense, industrial automation, and medical technology. Through change and challenge, Moog has remained committed to innovation and culture. Today, we continue to shape the way our world moves while building a sustainable business for generations to come.
Mott Macdonald
Company Partner
Opening opportunities with connected thinking. Mott MacDonald is a US$2bn engineering, management and development consultancy. We’re involved in:
- solving some of the world’s most urgent social, environmental and economic challenges
- helping governments and businesses plan, deliver and sustain their strategic goals
- responding to humanitarian and natural emergencies
- improving people’s lives
Our expertise by sector includes buildings, communications, defence, education, environment, health, industry, mining, oil and gas, power, transport, urban development, water, wastewater and more. Our skills encompass planning, studies and design, project finance, technical advisory services, project and programme management, management consultancy and beyond.
For every project, we create the blend of talent needed to create the right result – appropriate; cost, carbon and resource-efficient; safe, easy and swift to deliver and operate; reliable and resilient; delivering great outcomes.
Engineering. Management. Consultancy.
National Grid
Company Partner
National Grid is an energy company operating in the UK and the US. We play a vital role in connecting millions of people to the energy they use. We enable the innovation that’s transforming the energy system.
We own the high-voltage electricity transmission network in England and Wales. National Grid Electricity Transmission is responsible for making sure electricity is transported safely and efficiently from where it’s produced to where it’s needed.
Omni Resource
Company Partner
Our consultancy-first approach blends insights, technology, and innovation to help organisations raise their hiring game to attract and retain the best talent. They benefit from our vast industry knowledge and service flexibility, providing a combination of expertise and capacity that can be difficult to generate internally, yet is so important to meet fluctuating hiring demands of any business. We know how to make recruitment work and with our continued support, they can attract and retain top-tier talent.
OP Mobility
Company Partner
Heir to a long family history and four generations of manufacturers, OPmobility is the total embodiment of entrepreneurial passion. Our history is a continuing blend of entrepreneurism and financial rigor, of manufacturing and human challenges, with a single objective: to keep moving forward, innovating and driving revolution in the automobile industry since 1946.
Premier Foods
Company Partner
As one of the UK’s largest food businesses, we’re passionate about food. We help enrich people’s lives by creating great-tasting products that contribute to healthy and balanced diets, while committing to nurturing our people, our local communities and our planet.
We supply a range of customers with our iconic brands which feature in millions of homes every day.
Renew Holdings
Company Partner
Renew Holdings provide essential engineering services to maintain and renew critical infrastructure networks.
Our multidisciplinary engineering services are delivered through our independently branded subsidiary businesses that support the vital day-to-day running of these infrastructure networks.
As a major provider of infrastructure services to the rail network nationally, we support its day-to-day operations by providing a high volume of essential, non‑discretionary asset maintenance activities. Through our long-term frameworks we deliver a range of services, including civil asset management, fencing, devegetation, drainage and electrification services.
Rotork
Company Partner
Rotork is a FTSE-250 market-leading global provider of mission critical flow control and instrumentation solutions for oil and gas, water and wastewater, power, chemical process and industrial applications. We help customers around the world to improve efficiency, reduce emissions, minimise their environmental impact and assure safety. Established in 1957, Rotork has 3,700 employees, based in 39 countries and serves customers in over 170 countries, led from our head office in Bath, UK. Rotork: Keeping the World Flowing for Future Generations.
Safran Landing Systems
Company Partner
As one of the UK’s largest food businesses, we’re passionate about food. We help enrich people’s lives by creating great-tasting products that contribute to healthy and balanced diets, while committing to nurturing our people, our local communities and our planet.
We supply a range of customers with our iconic brands which feature in millions of homes every day.
Sellafield Ltd
Company Partner
A wholly owned subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, we are responsible for the safe and secure operation and clean-up of the Sellafield site.
The environmental remediation of Sellafield will see us:
- investing in one of the largest portfolios of complex major projects in the country,
- retrieving and treating nuclear waste from legacy facilities and then storing it safely
- using our assets and expertise to provide safe and secure storage for used nuclear fuels and materials on behalf of the country
We don’t do this alone, but in collaboration with our supply chain partners, academia and stakeholders. Together, we are creating a clean and safe environment for future generations.
SEA
Company Partner
We protect what matters – our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.
SEA has more than 60 years’ experience in delivering advanced solutions that maximise defence capability. We have state-of-the-art solutions for naval ship and fleet protection, maritime communications, undersea surveillance, and intelligent transport management, all of which are in-service and supported across the globe and designed to provide a rapid response to threat, while ensuring effectiveness and interoperation.
Join us and be part of something smaller – with 400 people in the UK and Canada – doing something bigger: protecting what matters.
Star Refrigeration
Company Partner
Star Refrigeration is the UK’s largest independent industrial refrigeration engineering company, founded in 1970, working with customers from design to commissioning and maintenance, supported by a nationwide branch structure. The company, comprised of six business units, currently has around 400 employees throughout the group. We are an Investors in People Platinum accredited employer and recognise the important role our employees play in our success which is why they are at the heart of everything we do. We aim to support and encourage our employees to pursue their interests and provide development opportunities to ensure they have rewarding and fulfilling careers.
Sellafield Ltd
Company Partner
A wholly owned subsidiary of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, we are responsible for the safe and secure operation and clean-up of the Sellafield site.
The environmental remediation of Sellafield will see us:
- investing in one of the largest portfolios of complex major projects in the country,
- retrieving and treating nuclear waste from legacy facilities and then storing it safely
- using our assets and expertise to provide safe and secure storage for used nuclear fuels and materials on behalf of the country
We don’t do this alone, but in collaboration with our supply chain partners, academia and stakeholders. Together, we are creating a clean and safe environment for future generations.
SEA
Company Partner
We protect what matters – our nations, our waters, our land, our cities, our people, our environment, our world.
SEA has more than 60 years’ experience in delivering advanced solutions that maximise defence capability. We have state-of-the-art solutions for naval ship and fleet protection, maritime communications, undersea surveillance, and intelligent transport management, all of which are in-service and supported across the globe and designed to provide a rapid response to threat, while ensuring effectiveness and interoperation.
Join us and be part of something smaller – with 400 people in the UK and Canada – doing something bigger: protecting what matters.
Technip FMC
Company Partner
TechnipFMC is a leading technology provider to the traditional and new energy industries; delivering fully integrated projects, products, and services.
We are the energy architects. As a global leader in the traditional and renewable energy industry, TechnipFMC delivers innovative technologies, systems, and services to meet the world’s energy needs now and in the future.
TechnipFMC’s global team powers our success – our people use their skills to design, engineer, manufacture, and install the systems used by the energy industry to access resources on land and at sea.
TechnipFMC is a publicly traded company. We have two business units, Subsea and Surface Technologies, and use what we learn in each to inform and improve our capabilities company-wide. We integrate and innovate solutions to simplify projects and accelerate time to first production. Our digital solutions generate actionable data that operators use to improve production and reduce carbon intensity.
We are leveraging our deep knowledge in traditional energy to support the energy transition. Our strategy focuses on three pillars built on our existing competencies: greenhouse gas removal, floating offshore renewables, and hydrogen solutions.
Uniper
Company Partner
Uniper ensures security of supply while driving the transformation of the energy system. Our asset portfolio which encompasses flexible power plants, gas storage, renewables, and hydrogen – is essential for today’s energy system and tomorrow’s. Our trading business combines advanced analytics, algorithmic approaches, and market foresight to source commodities globally.
Vodafone
Company Partner
Our investment will boost speeds for every customer as we bring 5G Standalone (5G SA) coverage to 99% of the population by 2030 and every corner of the UK by 2034.
From busy city centres to remote rural towns, we’re making sure every area has the access it needs, including the most vulnerable within society. Better yet, customers don’t have to wait to feel the benefits. Within a few months, around 28.6 million Vodafone and Three mobile customers will begin to benefit from automatically using each other’s networks – connecting them to the best coverage available, at no extra cost.
Meanwhile, the UK’s largest full-fibre footprint will be further supported by Fixed Wireless Access offers and site upgrades. All of which means a faster, more reliable service for every single customer – without them having to lift a finger.
Education Partners
Brunel University
Education Partner
When Brunel was awarded its Royal Charter in 1966 we were given a distinct purpose and an incredible opportunity. In 2026, we mark 60 years since Brunel was awarded its Royal Charter and officially became Brunel University London. It was a milestone that marked our transformation from Brunel College, and just one moment in our story that stretches all the way back to the 1800s.
Take a look below at some of the key moments that have shaped who we are today. Our timeline brings together six decades of change, progress and achievement. From the evolution of our campus life and the buildings and developments that have risen around us, to some V.I.Bs (Very Important Brunelians) – the people who’ve made their mark here, and successes we’ve celebrated along the way.
Coventry University
Education Partner
We are a forward-looking, modern university with a proud tradition as a provider of high quality education and a focus on applied research.
Our students benefit from state-of-the-art equipment and facilities in all academic disciplines including health, design and engineering laboratories, performing arts studios and computing centres. We have been chosen to host three national Centres of Excellence in Teaching and Learning which has enabled us to invest substantial sums of money in health, design and mathematics.
Our city-centre campus is continually developing and evolving, and we have plans for further investment in it over the next few years. We are a major presence in Coventry, which contributes to the city’s friendly and vibrant atmosphere and also enables us to foster successful business partnerships.
Through our links with leading edge businesses and organisations in the public and voluntary sectors, our students are able to access project and placement opportunities that enhance their employability on graduation.
Durham University
Education Partner
Durham University has a long and distinguished history of delivering high quality research and teaching across the broad discipline of engineering. It was the first UK university to run an engineering degree programme, in 1838. The Department of Engineering offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses which produce modern engineers who are capable of solving problems across the traditional engineering boundaries. Our aim is to give the best education possible, providing an encouraging, supportive and intellectually challenging environment where students can develop their skills and enhance their employability. Our academic staff are all actively engaged in research at the frontiers of modern engineering analysis, design and practice.
Their passion and knowledge is brought into all courses, where students are exposed to, and involved in, cutting-edge research that goes on within the Department. However, we recognize that the engineering profession is still very much gender imbalanced and are working on a number of initiatives to improve gender diversity. Our Education Partnership with WES provides an exciting opportunity to collaborate on these initiatives, as well as supporting our women engineers through the various networking opportunities that are on offer.
Glasgow Caledonian University
Education Partner
Glasgow Caledonian – the largest and leading modern university in Scotland – is a vibrant, values-led university with campuses in the heart of Glasgow and London. We’re committed to high-quality education and research supporting the communities we serve, and we have strong partnerships with employers to ensure our students get the careers they dream of.
We’re extremely passionate about helping more young people from diverse backgrounds into university, with 23% of our Scottish full-time, first degree entrants drawn from the country’s 20% most-disadvantaged backgrounds (SFC 2025). An independent economic impact report highlighted that Glasgow Caledonian is a valuable asset to the City of Glasgow, not only bringing economic and employment opportunities, but working to address the deep-rooted economic, social and health inequalities in the city (BiGGAR Economics).
Heriot Watt University
Education Partner
Our heritage dates back to 1821 since when our community of scholars has been developing transformational solutions to specific global problems. We are specialists in engineering, business and science and leaders in innovative global education for a future world. From a pioneering institute born out of the Scottish Enlightenment, today we are shaping the world, a global university, a leader in transnational education. Echoing our founding principles of tailoring our curriculum to the needs of modern society, we are a powerful driver of the economy wherever we are in the world. In all of our communities we create a distinct university experience, a springboard for an international career.
Imperial College London
Education Partner
Welcome to Imperial. We are a world-leading university for science, technology, engineering, medicine and business (STEMB), where scientific imagination leads to world-changing impact.
We were founded in 1907 with a mission ‘To be useful’, but we know that before anyone can usefully change something, they first need to understand it. That’s what we do.
We use science to try to understand more of the universe, and improve the lives of more people in it. Across our London campuses, and throughout our international network, we ask bigger questions and so we shape the future.
Kingston University London
Education Partner
Established in 1899, Kingston University is home to a diverse community with more than 20,000 students from 140 countries.
As the UK’s leading university for Future Skills, our staff and students are sought after for their skills, knowledge and ability to innovate. We are committed to enhancing students’ life chances, supporting staff ambitions and strengthening the University’s impact on industry, policy and the professions to enable a sustainable future socially, economically and environmentally.
Loughborough University
Education Partner
Loughborough University is somewhere anyone can realise their full potential. The atmosphere and team spirit on campus inspire and empower people to achieve extraordinary things. This progressive and ambitious attitude is reflected in the success we achieve, as one of the top-performing universities in the country. Loughborough University is also a welcoming place where staff and students should feel they can be themselves. Across everything we do, we are working together to create a better future, for everyone.
Liverpool John Moores University
Education Partner
Liverpool John Moores University is a distinctive, unique institution, rooted in the Liverpool City Region but with a global presence.
Our students and staff, past, present, and future, are the beating heart of our city and can be found in every corner of every industry and community. We couldn’t exist anywhere else and have shaped this place we belong to.
Working with the people of our city to improve lives and support communities is at the heart of why we were founded and why we exist today.
Growing and supporting our community is a commitment to work in partnership on an inclusive and positive future for all of those around us.
The world is changing at incredible speed, and we believe our mission is to develop exciting, brave, resilient people and embrace effective, impactful change.
Middlesex University
Education Partner
We are named by students as 1st in London and 2nd in the UK for University of the Year (Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2025). For nearly 150 years, we have supported our students to achieve their aspirations and prepare them for successful lives and careers in a changing world.
We are proud to be the University for north London with an international outlook and opportunities through our close connections to our Dubai and Mauritius locations and academic partners worldwide.
Newcastle University
Education Partner
Newcastle University is a world-leading university, advancing knowledge, providing creative solutions and solving global problems to make a positive impact on individuals, to organisations and to society as a whole. The School of Engineering is part of this, comprising of five key disciplines; Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Marine Technology and Mechanical Engineering. We tackle global challenges such as climate change, sustainable energy, transport, water supply and waste management. Our research is enabled by world-class laboratories, facilities and we have strong links with industry partners including Siemens and Dyson. From research-led teaching to experiential learning, the student experience is varied, interactive, challenging and rewarding. In addition to our undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Newcastle, engineering is the mainstay of the University’s campus in Singapore.
We are proud to be a WES education partner to support our commitment to women in engineering. We have a thriving community of students and staff, both academics and those in professional services, who help each other become the best that they can be. The women’s engineering society connects us to others in the higher education sector, as well as companies, big and small. This is an outstanding means of sharing our good practice, and learning from our partners. It is a means by which we can support the cause of women in engineering and participate in a wider network of like-minded friends. The School of Engineering holds a Bronze Athena SWAN award, and Newcastle University holds Silver. So, we are doing well but we can still do better, and we expect that our membership of WES will help us on our journey.
Queen Mary University of London
Education Partner
Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.
Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.
We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.
The Open University
Education Partner
The Open University (OU) is the leading university for flexible innovative teaching and world-leading research in the United Kingdom and in 157 countries worldwide. The OU has an open access policy and is uniquely placed to understand the needs of part-time students, who combine their learning with work and family commitments. The Open University’s mission is to be open as to people, places, methods and ideas and its award-winning distance teaching has helped over 2 million students receive and education since it was established in 1969.
Students on the engineering programme at the OU study at a distance and are often isolated, with women much more likely to be career changers wanting to enter the engineering profession. Our partnership with WES enables them to access information and networks and see the varied work of qualified engineers. Our female students really value the link with WES.
The University of Sheffield
Education Partner
A member of the UK’s prestigious Russell Group of leading research-led institutions, The University of Sheffield is one of the world’s leading universities.
The Faculty of Engineering is one of the biggest and best providers of engineering research and education in the UK, with over 6,700 students. Our expertise is extensive, with seven academic departments and three interdisciplinary programme areas covering all the engineering disciplines.
We have the world’s experts undertaking research and teaching our students. This is underpinned by a firm commitment to growth and excellence, delivering the best facilities for our students to become the world-class engineers of tomorrow.
Through cutting-edge research and strong partnerships with industry leaders globally, such as Boeing, Siemens and Rolls-Royce, our academics tackle the biggest challenges facing the modern world through an increasingly collaborative and multidisciplinary approach.
The Faculty of Engineering at The University of Sheffield has been championing women to reach their goals in engineering since 2011. As one of just 18 universities to hold the Athena SWAN silver institutional Award, the University seeks to show the huge diversity of the engineering discipline; to break preconceived notions of what engineering is and to showcase our excellent Women in Engineering at The University of Sheffield. To this end we are delighted to have become an Educational Partner and to work with WES, to help inspire the younger generation and help raise awareness of Engineering as a career amongst women.
University College London
Education Partner
Founded in 1826 in the heart of London, UCL is London’s leading multidisciplinary university, with more than 18,000 staff and 51,000 students from over 150 different countries. We are a diverse community with the freedom and courage to challenge, to question, and to think differently.
Through a progressive approach to teaching and research, our world-leading academics, curious students and outstanding staff continually pursue excellence, break boundaries, and make an impact on real-world problems.
University of Surrey
Education Partner
The University of Surrey was established on 9 September 1966 with the grant of its Royal Charter, but its roots go back to a late 19th-century concern to provide greater access to further and higher education for the poorer inhabitants of London. Battersea Polytechnic Institute was founded in 1891 and began concentrating on science and technology around 1920, teaching students for degrees from the University of London.
Its academic reputation steadily grew and in 1956, it was one of the first institutions to be designated a ‘college of advanced technology’. It was renamed Battersea College of Technology in 1957.
University of Birmingham
Education Partner
For more than a century, the University of Birmingham has been pursuing and sharing knowledge through outstanding teaching and world-leading research.
We are the original ‘redbrick’ University, part of the prestigious Russell Group; our thriving student population enjoys a wide range of courses, and exceptional campus and research facilities.
The 10 Nobel Laureates we count among our staff and alumni have contributed to some of science’s greatest discoveries, including in recent times the Higgs Boson and Gravitational Waves. Our research provides innovative solutions to the challenges we face in our city, our region and across the globe.
University of Bristol
Education Partner
Before the University of Bristol, there was University College, Bristol, which existed from 1876 to 1909.
Its history can be traced back to the efforts of John Percival, headmaster of Clifton College, to press for the establishment of such an institution. In 1872, Percival wrote to the Oxford colleges observing that the provinces lacked a university culture.
The following year he produced a pamphlet called ‘The Connection of the Universities and the Great Towns’, which was well received by Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Jowett was to become a significant figure, both philosophically and financially, in the establishment of University College, Bristol.
In June 1874, a meeting took place at Bristol’s Victoria Rooms ‘to promote a School of Science and Literature for the West of England’. Percival and Jowett spoke at the meeting, and won the support of Albert Fry and Lewis Fry, members of an influential and affluent local family.
University of Edinburgh
Education Partner
We educate and empower the next generation of engineering leaders, equipping them with the knowledge, creativity, and ethical responsibility needed to address the world’s most urgent challenges.
We build on the University’s pioneering spirit since 1583. At the forefront of engineering innovation, we create solutions with real-world impact. From advancing data science and digital communications, to designing resilient infrastructure, to driving breakthroughs in biomedical engineering and energy sustainability, our research tackles today’s toughest challenges with purpose and ingenuity.
Our teaching is innovative and research-led, preparing students for the future of work and lifelong learning, while fostering critical thinking, collaboration, and adaptability. We work in close partnership with local communities, industry, and global networks to translate knowledge into action that benefits society and the economy.
Rooted in our historic home and inspired by engineering pioneers such as Elizabeth Georgeson, Fleeming Jenkin, Molly Ferguson and William Rankine, we are committed to sustainability, equity, and inclusion, ensuring that our work reflects the values of the University of Edinburgh and contributes to a better future for all.
University of Greenwich
Education Partner
At the University of Greenwich, degrees range from Chemical Engineering to Civil and Electrical Engineering and are studied in hi-tech laboratories at Medway Campus. All engineering degrees share a common first year. Students then go on to specialise in their chosen area of engineering. Most of the engineering disciplines offer a four-year course which leads to a master’s degree. Meanwhile, applicants who achieve lower tariff points can enter through an ‘extended’ degree, which includes a foundation year.
University of Leicester
Education Partner
We believe in education as a force for good. To make this world a better place by empowering our members to become Citizens of Change.
Our origins, over 100 years ago, speak to that very purpose – our founding father Dr Astley Clarke declared:
“Now, every material asset a person possesses may flee; education alone is an asset of which an individual cannot be robbed.”>
We are unique as the only university in Europe founded by its community as a living memorial to those who made sacrifices in the First World War. A university built on the hope for a better future reflected in our motto: Ut vitam habeant – So that they may have life.
In over a century we have flourished to become a leading research-intensive university providing an inspiring education and student experience, and delivering world-changing research that improves people’s lives.
As a comprehensive university, we offer a broad breadth of courses incorporating a spectrum of subjects in a suite of undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes.
University of Nottingham
Education Partner
The University of Nottingham is a globally renowned institution, ranked within the world’s top 100 universities and among the UK’s top 20 in the QS World University Rankings 2026. With vibrant campuses in the UK and Asia, the university delivers exceptional education, an outstanding student experience, and ground-breaking research with real-world impact.
The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham stands at the forefront of engineering education and research, offering world-class programmes across a wide range of disciplines. Supported by state-of-the-art facilities and strong industry partnerships, the faculty prepares students for successful engineering careers. Nottingham is ranked as the 3rd most targeted university by leading UK employers (The Graduate Market, High Fliers, 2025). In 2019, the Faculty became the first engineering department in the UK to receive the prestigious Athena Swan Gold Award, recognising its exceptional commitment to advancing gender equality in engineering.
University of Warwick
Education Partner
Founded in 1965, the University of Warwick is the youngest member of the Russell Group and renowned for seeking out and addressing complex global challenges with era-defining innovative thinking. A connected ecosystem of staff, students and alumni, the University fosters transformative learning, interdisciplinary collaboration and bold industry partnerships across state-of-the-art facilities in the UK and global satellite hubs.
Here, spirited thinkers push boundaries, experiment, and challenge convention to create a better world.
This is University of Warwick.
This is Beyond.
University of Leeds
Education Partner
The Engineering and Physical Sciences is home to world leading research-intensive engineering schools including, School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Chemical and Process Engineering. The faculty bring together experts in computer science, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, physics, and astronomy to deliver outstanding student education and research. The faculty community is made up of a wide range of people with diverse backgrounds and circumstances, which we value and regard as a great asset.
Not for Profit Partners
AWE
Not for Profit Partner
AWE is one of the UK’s ‘25 Best Big Companies to Work For’. For 70 years, the UK Government has given us a critical mission – to keep the country safe and secure. We do this by maintaining the UK’s current nuclear deterrent warhead, designing future weapons systems to maintain deterrence, and protecting against nuclear accidents, terrorism and state actor.
Our Engineers benefit from a supportive, friendly and flexible culture which enables career development with empowering mentoring and training, through chartership and into a senior professional career. We embrace equity, diversity and inclusion through staff-led groups and leadership vision. We actively encourage STEM returners.
There is a place for everyone at AWE.
ECITB
Not for Profit Partner
What is the ECITB?
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) is the employer-led skills body for the Engineering Construction Industry in Great Britain. ECITB’s new strategy, Leading Industry Learning, will help attract, develop and qualify a diverse talent pool, upskill the current workforce and develop the skills needed for the delivery of critical infrastructure projects, energy security and net zero ambitions
Dyson Institute
Not for Profit Partner
The Dyson Institute is a pioneering higher education model, offering an alternative – and we believe, better – choice to traditional university provision. Our unique approach combines rigorous academic programmes with hands-on work on future Dyson products.
Enhanced by our proactive approach to development and support, the Dyson Institute is creating talented engineers and future leaders who are making significant contributions to Dyson’s technologies and culture.
Setting up an independent higher education provider which is fully integrated with a global technology company is a significant innovation – the first educational model of its kind. We are paving the way for academic-industrial collaborations which transcend traditional notions of academic and vocational pathways, enabling meaningful student choice and supporting employers to play a much more fundamental role in talent development.
This ground breaking approach is testament to Dyson’s pioneering spirit and its certainty that learning drives progress.
GCHQ
Not for Profit Partner
GCHQ is a world-leading intelligence, security and cyber agency with a mission to help keep the UK safe. Our brilliant people use cutting-edge technology and technical ingenuity to identify, analyse and disrupt threats in an increasingly digital world.
In the UK we work closely with MI5, MI6, law enforcement and the military to protect the country from terrorism, hostile state activity and serious and organised crime. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) which is part of GCHQ, aims to make the UK the safest place in the world to live and do business online. We also work closely with our partners in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which form the 5EYES intelligence alliance on global issues.
GCHQ’s people come from diverse backgrounds and bring their unique skills, but all share a passion to make a difference for their country. Whether you’re an engineer or can speak a language, have a PhD in computer science or have come straight from school and want to be an apprentice, there is a career for you at GCHQ. The one quality we ask for in everyone is a commitment to keeping the UK safe.
Transport for Wales
Not for Profit Partner
We’re driving forward the Welsh Government’s vision of a high-quality, safe, integrated, affordable, and accessible transport network that the people of Wales are proud of.
Transport for London
Not for Profit Partner
Transport for London is a local government body responsible for most of the transport network in Lodnon.
STEM Returners
Not for Profit Partner
Since 2017, STEM Returners has been at the forefront of promoting equality, inclusivity, and diversity within the STEM sector. We’re passionate about creating a equitable industry where career breaks or unconventional journeys are not barriers to success.
Our programmes have not only transformed individual careers but have also helped businesses fill critical talent gaps with experienced, diverse candidates. Designed to support individuals returning to STEM, our STEM Returners Programme offers paid placement opportunities with industry leaders, mentorship, and training, that pave the way for a successful reintegration into the workforce.
For employers, we provide access to a diverse and skilled talent pool, helping to address skills gaps and build innovative, inclusive teams that drive progress.
SME and Start up Partners
Alexander Associates
SME Partner
Alexander Associates is a bespoke and boutique recruitment agency working in partnership with the Leading Consulting Engineers, Contractors and Design and Build Contractors. Established in 1989 Alexander Associates prides itself in building long term relationships rather than making a quick placement. This ethic is at the core of our day to day working practices and supported by every member of the company. We passionately believe that Engineering is an exciting, challenging and rewarding career. Alexander Associates is delighted to have the opportunity to support and work with WES.
Metis Consultants
SME Partner
Metis is a civil and environmental engineering consultancy, certified as a B Corporation in the UK since 2022. We provide sustainable engineering services to both the public and private sectors. Since inception in 2009, our purpose has remained consistent: to offer an agile and personal alternative to the bigger civil engineering consultancies. We strive to exceed expectations in every project, and are proud of our reputation for the extraordinary engineering projects we deliver.
In 2025, Metis became an Employee-Owned Business – underpinning our continual drive to innovate, and meet the specific needs of our clients. We have offices in Richmond-upon-Thames and Manchester.
Archangel Lightworks
Start up Partner
Archangel Lightworks is building deployable laser communication systems for the high-volume, secure, space-enabled networks of the future.
Today, space and terrestrial networks are not well-connected leading to insecure, insufficient, and vulnerable infrastructure. Nearly 3 billion people are unconnected and many more are under-connected.
Our core product, the TERRA-M, is a portable, miniature optical ground station. Compared to traditional networks, TERRA-M allows more licence-free data transferred at low probability of detection and interception.
We are driving down the size, weight, power & cost (SWaP-C) of optical ground equipment to make resilient space-ground lasercom available and affordable.
AXIAH
Start Up Partner
AXIAH Ltd are an expanding micro-enterprise providing systems engineering & technical management consultancy to support equipment delivery and capability development.
Our goal is to responsibly deliver effective and efficient solutions for the continued benefit of our customers and communities.