The autumn of 2009 has certainly been a golden time for WPH Building Services as no less than 6 of its employees from the Apprenticeships section have received recognition at various local, regional and national awards events.
During October 2009, Liverpool Community College held their 15th annual Construction awards ceremony, at which two of WPH Building Services apprentices received awards. Chris Donnelly, a 3rd Year Plastering Apprentice was awarded the British Gypsum Award for Apprentice Plasterers, whilst Tom McElnay, a recently qualified Apprentice Plasterer who now works as a Plasterer Technician for WPH Building Services won the Jack Amos Memorial Trophy for Plasterer of the Year.
At the same ceremony, Chris Boynton, Apprentice & Technical Training Manager with WPH Building Services was the recipient of an award for being “A Special friend of Liverpool Community College”. This was for the close and effective working relationship which Chris has established with the College during the past 15 years. Indeed, this award represented a double for Chris who had been fortunate enough to have received the same accolade from Wirral Metropolitan College some two years earlier!
Early November saw Wirral Metropolitan College hold their annual student awards for Construction, at which Eddie Leigh, won the award for Student Achieving Highest Standards in Joinery. Subsequently, Tom Evered, a recently qualified Apprentice Plumber, who now works as a Plumbing Technician for WPH Building Services was nominated for the North West Regional Apprentice Training Awards. Each of these apprentices undertook their training with local training provider, Scientiam Ltd.
And most recently, Paul Harvey, a recently qualified Apprentice Glazier who now works as a Flexible Glazier/Window Installer Technician for WPH Building Services, was the winner of the UK Advanced Apprentice of the Year, a prestigious national accolade bestowed upon him by Proskills, one of the National Sector Skills Councils.
In so doing, Paul became the 2nd WPH winner of a Proskills UK Award since 2007 and his title was won in the face of some very stiff competition from hundreds of apprentices from across the UK. Paul, who undertook his training with The Vocational College, received his award from Commentator and Comedian, Mark Steel, at an awards dinner held in mid-November at the Marriott Hotel, Forest of Arden, West Midlands.
Trevor Jones, Managing Director of WPH Building Services said, “We are immensely proud of all of those whose efforts have recently been deservedly recognised. Their achievements have done much to enhance the growing local and national reputation for apprenticeship training at WPH.”
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