Britain built a route into work. We are building the route into ownership.
981,000 people aged 16 to 24 in the UK are outside work, education and training. Source: ONS, April to June 2026 (opens in a new tab) At the same time, 620,000 company directors are 67 or over. Source: Bowmore analysis of Companies House filings, 2025 (opens in a new tab)
Many of those young people could run a business. Many of those businesses will need someone new to run them. Omose exists to join the two up.
We changed why the owner teaches.
An owner who teaches a junior everything takes a risk. The better that junior gets, the more likely they are to leave, and to take customers with them. So owners often hold something back.
Omose changes that. The owner holds a stake in what the apprentice goes on to own. Now every supplier they introduce, every price they explain and every customer they hand over helps a business they part-own.
That is the difference between being trained to work in a business and being taught to own one.
What we built around it.
One contract, signed before day one. A fund that builds every month. A record both sides can read. Three routes to ownership. A real apprenticeship with a recognised qualification. And a commitment from every new owner to train the next.
Put together, that is a new kind of apprenticeship.
The founder
Omose was started in Greater Manchester by Emmanuel Olorunshola. The spark came from Nigeria, where he knew how Igbo traders turn apprentices into owners. What we built for Britain is new.
His own agency will be the first host. We won't ask anyone to do what we won't do ourselves.
The name
Omose comes from ọmọṣẹ́, the everyday Yoruba word for apprentice. Literally, child of work.
Why Greater Manchester
The city region has its own adult skills powers, so a founding cohort here can be tested properly and measured.
Be part of the first cohort.
The founding pairs start in Greater Manchester in 2027.