If you decide that an apprenticeship is the right choice for you, you are advised to create an account with the government’s ‘Find An Apprenticeship’ service: https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship
Careerpilot and Morrisby are both excellent organisations that can help you to decide on a career, whether you want to go straight into employment or take an apprenticeship first:
There are many companies that specialise in helping young adults arrange a gap year. A good starting point is a simple Google search (using the search term ‘gap year’) but here you can see typical help and information from one such company, GapYear360:
Students – You will find lots of other useful information on our Post-16 Community Google Classroom. The joining code is cruhkyz.