Stamford College And SLGTA Inspire Local Schools With Construction Careers

It has also been great to have the sup­port of many local and nation­al con­struc­tion com­pa­nies at the event includ­ing CITB, Crow­ley Asso­ciates Ltd, Lin­dum Group, Travis Perkins, George Barns­dale & Sons Ltd, Mes­sen­ger Con­struc­tion Ltd, Worces­ter Bosch, Mill­stone Restora­tion Train­ing, EMESS, GBSG, Essen­tial Site Skills, JC+Co , NextWorld VR pro­vid­ing activ­i­ties for the stu­dents to have a go them­selves and giv­ing them an insight into var­i­ous con­struc­tion career options. In addi­tion, we would also to thank Mes­sen­ger Con­struc­tion, Worces­ter Bosch and Ari­on Train­ing for the Mas­ter Class tuto­ri­als giv­en to our full time stu­dents who have also gain from the event.

Oppor­tu­ni­ties such as these would not have been pos­si­ble with­out sup­port from a wide vari­ety of employ­ers includ­ing Prince­build Ltd who pro­vid­ed Hi Vis vests, Alli­son Homes Ltd and CITB who sup­plied mate­ri­als. Also big thank you to George Barn­dales & Sons for the activ­i­ties awards who recog­nised the engage­ment from all those attend­ed with the pre­sen­ta­tion of awards to the best stu­dents from each activity.

The huge­ly suc­cess­ful annu­al event cel­e­brates the work­ing rela­tion­ships and col­lab­o­ra­tion of not only schools and col­leges, but local employ­ers, stu­dents and tutors who all engaged with sup­port­ing and deliv­er­ing activ­i­ties to the future of our con­struc­tion workforce.

At the end of the day, 19 awards were pre­sent­ed for ​‘best activ­i­ty’, a school staff mem­ber of the day award (Mrs R Pat­man Ken from Stimp­son Acad­e­my) and a school of the day award (Cor­by Busi­ness Acad­e­my)!

It also gave the col­lege the oppor­tu­ni­ty to show­case its fan­tas­tic facil­i­ties giv­ing the vis­it­ing school stu­dents an insight into a num­ber of Con­struc­tion and Engi­neer­ing Careers that are avail­able to them at both Stam­ford and Peter­bor­ough College.