Author: Manon Rosser

While many businesses are closed during the Coronavirus pandemic, apprentices across Wales are forging ahead with their qualifications with online support from their learning provider. Directors and staff at award winning, pan-Wales learning provider Cambrian Training are all working remotely from home during the pandemic but are staying connected to their learners via the City… Read more »

Picture caption: Butchers competing in last year’s WorldSkills UK competition. The deadline for a competition to find the UK’s best butcher has been extended to May 5 because of the Coronavirus crisis. The closing date for the Butchery WorldSkills UK Competition entries was originally scheduled for April 2, but WorldSkills UK has decided to extend… Read more »

Picture caption: Last years’ finalist Codie-Jo Carr competing in last year’s WorldSkills UK competition final. Do you have the skills, knowledge and dedication to become a champion butcher? A nationwide hunt is underway to find talented & skilled butchers to compete in the Butchery WorldSkills UK competition 2020. WorldSkills UK Competitions are designed by industry… Read more »

Welsh winner of BBC One’s The Apprentice in 2016, Alana Spencer, will soon be saying those famous words “You’re hired”, as she celebrates Apprenticeship Week Cymru by seeking to recruit her first apprentice. Alana, 27, already employs seven staff in her handmade cake company, Ridiculously Rich by Alana, which moved into a unit on Glanyrafon… Read more »

Picture caption: Helping Our Homeless Wales’ vice chairman Sian Clarke and volunteer Liam Crosby pictured with Cambrian Training’s managing director Arwyn Watkins and staff Loz Gaskin, Donna Heath, Shirley Chelmick and Steve Bound who helped collect shoe boxes, bags of food and jackets for the charity. Kind-hearted directors and staff at an award-winning training provider… Read more »

Picture captions: Stefan Rice with his gold medal after winning the Butchery WorldSkills UK Competition final. Absolutely thrilled and flabbergasted” was the reaction of Stafford butcher Stefan Rice after winning the Butchery WorldSkills UK Competition final at the weekend. Stefan, 35, from Cannock, who works for A. Hindle and Son, Stafford, edged out five rival… Read more »

Picture caption: Codie-Jo Carr receives her certificate from judges Roger Kelsey and Viv Harvey in the regional heat, Craig Holly shows his competition butchery skills, Liam Lewis in action in the regional heats, Elizabeth James in competition action, Jason Edwards with his meat display in the regional heat, Stefan Rice is looking forward to the… Read more »

Picture caption: Foundation Apprentices Anish Kuriakose, Jane Weston, Kathryn Dollery, Sion Treharne with (back from left) training officer Joanna Davies from Cambrian Training, Bronglais General Hospital’s hotel services co-ordinator Steve James. Higher Apprentice Mark Westlake, Hywel Dda University Health Board facilities operations manager Stephen John and Cambrian Training’s head of hospitality Chris Bason. Bronglais General… Read more »

Picture caption: The Harbourmaster Hotel’s General Manager Dai Morgan receives the Small Employer of the Year Award from Kim Churcher, Managing Director of sponsor Wales England Care, watched by apprentices. An independently owned hotel, bar and restaurant on the Mid Wales coast, which grows and nurtures its own staff, has been rewarded with a national… Read more »

Picture caption: Lee Price (left) receives the Higher Apprentice of the Year Award from Hilary Clifford, Vocational Skills Partnership chair, award sponsor. Lee Price has been honoured with a national award for her dedication to learning after her late husband inspired her to complete a higher apprenticeship nine months early. Lee, 59, from Rhayader, was… Read more »