Bournemouth firm’s initiative helps trainees into work

CIOB Award sponsor JRS Training joined forces with East Sussex County Council to deliver tailor-made employment qualifications

Bournemouth-based training provider JRS Training – sponsor of the CIOB Awards 2022 Rising Star category – has been celebrating the success of a recent initiative undertaken with East Sussex Council.

Last October, the firm worked with East Sussex Council’s Steps to Work scheme, which saw it support a group of trainees with their entry into work.

“We worked closely with the Steps to Work team to handpick a variety of qualifications and methods of teaching which would be both accessible and useful to the trainees,” said James Owen, JRS Training’s managing director.

The trainees achieved Level 1 Health and Safety in Construction

JRS Training’s James Owen with a group of trainees and Environment and Emergency First Aid at Work, as well as qualifications in Working at Height, Vehicle Marshalling, Manual Handling and Asbestos Awareness.

After getting to know the trainees, JRS tailored the delivery of the courses to work on additional skills, such as presentation and overall communication, in order to further support the group with interviews.

Four of the six trainees successfully found employment off the back of all the training courses.

“It was a pleasure working with East Sussex Steps to Work, and we’re looking forward to supporting more trainees with them in the future,” said Owen. ●

We Are Ease’s fundraising team

CBC embarks on epic coast-to-coast charity adventure

We Are Ease team journey between south-west sites to raise money for Devon hospice

As Construction Management went to press an intrepid team from CBC We Are Ease was taking on a challenge of completing a coast-tocoast adventure covering the 100 miles between its construction sites on the coasts of Devon and Cornwall.

The team’s epic efforts will see them journey from Bude on the north coast of Cornwall to sites to the south (Exmouth and Brixham in Devon), by cycling, kayaking, running and walking and swimming, to raise money for Rowcroft Hospice.

“We are proud to be raising vital funds to support Rowcroft Hospice, celebrating their 40th year as an independent Devon charity providing a wide range of specialist palliative care services for people and their families with progressive life-limiting illnesses,” says Jason Parfey, senior manager with We Are Ease.

“Whether 18 or 80, if you have a life-limiting illness such as cancer, heart disease or MS, they are here to help.” ●

Donations can be made via https://tinyurl.com/y45s8bra.