In Brief: Green Port Growth Programme; Chamber; JTM Service
MORE than 100 apprentices have been taken on by companies in the first year of the Green Port Growth Programme’s employment and skills strand aimed at raising skills and capacity in the engineering sector.
Since July last year, it has offered wage subsidies to companies located in Hull and East Riding to encourage them to take on engineering apprentices.
The programme, supported by the Government’s Regional Growth Fund (RGF), is delivered in partnership by Hull City Council and East Riding of Yorkshire Council.
As part of the area’s successful RGF bid, it aims to deliver up to 850 engineering apprenticeships between 2012 and 2018, alongside support for up-skilling, disadvantaged groups and specific skills related to the offshore wind sector.
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THE Mid Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce is supporting the Small Business Advice Week.
The dedicated week originated from the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and allows small companies to share best practice and gain hints and tips on business.
This year’s Small Business Advice Week takes place from September 2 and the Chamber is inviting small businesses to join it at the Connections Count networking event on September 5 at Cedar Court Hotel, Ainley Top.
Connections Count is a business networking event that allowing delegates to attend and showcase their business in a one minute elevator pitch followed by the opportunity to network.
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COMMERCIAL laundry specialist JTM Service has continued its cycle of success in the social housing sector after scooping a new five-year contract with Fabrick Housing Group, one of the largest registered housing providers in the North East.
The Leeds-based laundry service provider has secured a hat-trick of new contracts, worth around £500,000 in the social housing sector in the last six months.
Fabrick Housing Group appointed JTM Service in a competitive tender process to ensure its communal laundry facilities across 27 of its sites across Tyneside and the Tees Valley operate at peak performance and are energy efficient.
Fabrick Housing Group partners Erimus Housing, Tees Valley Housing and Norcare own and manage around 15,000 properties. JTM will service, repair and replace communal laundry room equipment across all of its sheltered schemes.
