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RNS Number : 3929G  Hercules PLC  06 November 2025

6 November 2025

 

 Hercules plc

("Hercules" or "the Company")

 

Hercules Academy Marks Major Milestone

 

Hercules plc (AIM: HERC), a leading technology enabled labour supply company
for the UK infrastructure and construction sectors, is pleased to announce
that the Hercules Academy (the "Academy") is on course to train 2,000 students
in the 2025 calendar year.

 

The Academy, which launched in February 2024 and is situated in the market
town of Nuneaton, West Midlands, had planned to train up to 400 new entrants
in its first year, but beat expectations after training 1,100 students by
February 2025.

 

The Academy is helping address the UK's skills shortage and benefits major
infrastructure and construction projects across the UK.

 

Industry training body The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), as
part of its Construction Skills Network report, has forecasted that an
additional 225,000 workers will be needed by the industry by 2027 to meet
demand.

 

The Academy employs eleven members of staff and provides a range of courses.
Qualifications offered include health and safety courses, NVQs, plant and
machinery, as well as specialist courses in utility detection, working at
height, overhead powerline awareness, highways, and other bespoke industry
courses. Recently it has delivered specialist industrial warehousing
qualifications and a dedicated Women-Into-Construction programme.

 

The qualifications offered by the Academy are accredited by the CITB as well
as the NOCN Group, the Energy & Utility Skills Register and the RTITB.

 

The Academy is situated close to Birmingham and Coventry, where some of the
region's major infrastructure and construction projects, including HS2, are
situated. Its convenient location means that it is well placed to provide
training for Balfour Beatty Vinci and its supply chain partners working on HS2
alongside Hercules.

 

The Academy is also benefiting from the Company's recent acquisition of
Staffordshire training company, Quality Transport Training (QTT), which will
give the Academy more training capacity.

The Academy has recently expanded its training initiatives into the prison
system, successfully completing the training of its first cohort at HMP Holme
House in Stockton-on-Tees. Participants undertook a New Roads and Street Works
course, equipping them with valuable skills.

Going forward, Hercules will endeavour to place these individuals on local
projects, enabling them to apply their newly acquired competencies and
offering a fresh start through sustainable employment.

 

Brusk Korkmaz, CEO of Hercules Site Services, said: "The Hercules Academy is
going from strength to strength and our acquisition of QTT means that we are
one of the nation's leading private training providers in the infrastructure
and construction sectors.

 

"The Academy has also expanded into prison training work, as part of our
'Realigning Lives' initiative, and the team are currently working with HMP
Sudbury to train prisoners who are on ROTL (Release on Temporary License),
they are travelling to the academy each day and this is being funded by EMCA
(East Midlands Combined Authority)."

 

-ENDS-

 

For further information and enquiries, please contact:

 

 Hercules plc                                                       c/o SEC Newgate

 Brusk Korkmaz (CEO)

 Paul Wheatcroft (CFO)

 SP Angel (Nominated Adviser and Broker)                       +44 (0) 20 3470 0470

 Matthew Johnson / Adam Cowl (Corporate Finance)

 Grant Barker / Rob Rees (Sales and Broking)

 SEC Newgate (Financial Communications)                       +44 (0) 20 3757 6882

 Robin Tozer / Ian Silvera / Nina Renata Pop       Hercules@secnewgate.co.uk (mailto:Hercules@secnewgate.co.uk)

 

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