SPG Newsletter Issue 1

Charity
Skills People Group and our
staff regularly raise funds for
both local and national charities
including Ashgate Hospicecare
and Cancer Research.
The total that we raised during
2018 was an incredible:
£9,040
A huge thank you for all your
efforts and generosity!
ovember
During November, no less than
9 members of staff participated
in the ‘Movember’ event to
raise awareness of men’s health
issues, such as prostate cancer,
testicular cancer and suicide.
The ‘Magnificent Nine’ were:
Steve Henderson
Andy Perry
Anthony Hubbard
Dominic Fletcher
Stuart Brown
Neil Russell
Joe Travis
Alan Halfyear
Kam Karamdad
Together they raised a total of
£650 which was matched by
the company, resulting in an
impressive total of £1,300.
What a fan-tash-tic effort!
Pre-Employment
Away with the Fairies...
Skills People Group recently partnered with Liverpool City
Council to run an Introduction to Cleaning Principles & COSHH
pre-employment training course to provide local employer
Eco Fairies with trained and motivated candidates.
Jules Gordon (Eco Fairies): “We were contacted by Malcolm French who
suggested we look at an alternative way of recruiting for our vacancies.
Malcolm described the Skills People Group training course and this really
appealed to us as we would be giving local people an opportunity in our
community as well as getting the chance to interview trained candidates
who are genuinely looking for work!”
Cathy Clements (Liverpool Into Work): “I had set up a Cleaning training
course with Malcolm and he approached me with an employer he had
been talking to recently. We decided to join forces to offer our candidates
interviews and a real chance of employment. This resulted in interviews
and job offers for completing candidates. Skills People Group provided a
professional and supportive delivery to all our learners and we look forward
to many more opportunities to work with them in the future.”
Malcolm concluded: “This was a perfect opportunity to partner with a
local employer and Liverpool City Council to offer a real opportunity to
learners, it’s so important to give unemployed people the motivation to
complete our courses by providing a real chance of employment.”
No. 1 in Manchester
In February Skills People Group joined forces with One Manchester (part
of Manchester City Council Community Housing) to offer their clients a
training course in ‘Introduction to Construction’ leading to a CSCS Card.
Pat Eaves (One Manchester):
“I was approached by Malcolm French, offering various pre-employment
training courses for our unemployed clients in community housing. The
timing was perfect as our construction company were offering work
experience for people with a CSCS Card and training. We ran a course
in early 2019 and several of the completing candidates are now on a
work experience programme with our builders. We have since booked
another course with Malcolm which is due to start in March.”
Kam pictured in mid-Movember
Other News
Working
with Muppets!
Lauren Round, a Lead
Administrator based at
Chesterfield, got quite a shock
recently while checking a
candidate’s eligibility to receive
funding… as the picture shows!
Lauren eventually found the actual
copy of the candidate’s passport
in the profiling pack, so as far as
the candidate was concerned it
wasn’t ‘time to face the music’!
ThePeople: Team Newsletter of the Skills People Group Spring 2019