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BESA calls on employers to take apprenticeship pledge

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has called on employers to pledge they will take on at least one apprentice this year in a bid to plug the industry’s alarming skills gap and ensure it has the right talent to ...

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Impactful air filtration on demand

What is air filtration? While environmental decontamination and hand hygiene are universally recognised to reduce the risk of infections and keep people safe, adequate ventilation is vital for ensuring the air within workplaces & shared spaces is safe. Aerosols and ...

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Mitie passes £1m milestone for Apprenticeship Levy gifting

Mitie has passed the £1 million milestone for its Apprenticeship Levy gifting, committing to support a range of SMEs across England since January 2021. Through this gifting programme, Mitie will support more than 70 apprenticeships, many of which are new ...

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Corps Security in Zurich win

Social enterprise Corps Security has been awarded a three-year contract with leading insurance firm, Zurich, to deliver guarding services across its UK portfolio which includes premises in London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Swindon, Whiteley and Farnborough. The deal was secured in collaboration ...

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Stocksigns continues to deliver for Knights Brown

A combination of excellent customer service, specialist support and an extensive portfolio has meant that for another year – Stocksigns remains the preferred supplier of site and road safety signage for Knights Brown. The successful relationship recently led to Stocksigns ...

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Major companies are failing on their climate pledges

The headline climate pledges of 25 of the world’s largest companies in reality only commit to reduce their emissions by 40 per cent on average, not 100 per cent as suggested by their “net zero” and “carbon neutral” claims, according ...

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Team Q acquired by GSH Group

Privately owned global facilities management company, GSH Group, has announced its acquisition of Team Q, a UK-based facilities maintenance provider delivering technical maintenance solutions. GSH Group delivers FM services across a diverse portfolio of industrial, commercial, government and private real ...

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Sodexo appointed to Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime property services integrator framework

Sodexo has been appointed as the single supplier on the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) new property services integrator framework. The framework is accessible to all other UK public sector bodies, including the Offices of the Police and ...

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Woking Borough Council appoints Mountjoy as its new housing maintenance contractor

Property services firm, Mountjoy, has been awarded a contract with Woking Borough Council to provide responsive maintenance, void property works, domestic and communal gas boiler servicing to its housing stock. The three-year contract, which commences on the 1 April 2022 ...

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‘Apprenticeships are definitely worth it because I’ve seen first-hand that they work’

The UK facilities management market is one of the largest in Europe worth £47 billion and employs around 10 per cent of the population. To mark National Apprenticeship Week from 7-13 February, George Carter reveals why he invested in his ...

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