Plumber Danielle and apprentice trio tap into training accolades
Four Scarborough apprentices have scooped awards for theirprogressintheirchosen careers.
Hudson Contract held a celebration evening at Bridlington Spa to promote its scheme and reward some of the outstanding apprentices who have already benefited.
The company has paid 50% of the wages of 80 apprentices in their first year of training, and plans to work with 20 more in 2017.
Hudson Contract founder and chairman David Jackson said: “We are passionate about ensuring young people have every opportunity to begin a career in construction.
“Werecognisedseveralyears ago that there is a real need to develop places for apprentices which is why we created our apprenticeship programme.”
The overall winner was 19-year-old Danielle Sharpe, who is training to be a plumber in Scarborough, working alongside her stepfather Craig Butcher. She said: “People are always quite shocked when they find outIamaplumber.Iwastheonly girl in my class when I started in September.
“I am going to college, learning all the legislation and background and then going on site and sdoing it all first-hand.
“I had always fancied the construction industry and had thought about mechanics but I was a bit put off in case I felt uncomfortable or unsuitable.
“But now I wish I had started when I was 16.”
Scarborough-based Exley Smith Electrical apprentice Ben Dolan, budding carpenter and joiner Regan Hewitt of Snainton’s Mandx Partners and Scarborough joinery apprentice Jordan Forsdyke also picked up prizes at the ceremony.
They received their vouchers from Bridlington MP Sir Greg Knight. He said: The constructionindustryisveryimportant to our growing and thriving economy. Apprentices are important because one of the saddest things in life is seeing someone who has not achieved their full potential.
“For far too long we have pushed people towards academic qualifications and produced far too many lawyers and the penny has finally dropped about the value placed on apprenticeships.”