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VINCI Facilities retains Gold membership of The 5% Club

VINCI Facilities has retained Gold accredited membership as part of The 5% Club’s highly respected 2025–26 Employer Audit Scheme. The prestigious recognition celebrates the company’s ongoing dedication to nurturing talent through ‘earn and learn’ opportunities — including Apprenticeships, Graduate Programmes, ...

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Scenic route to success

Lucy Hayes, HR Director, Q3 Services explains why non-traditional routes into FM can be the most rewarding When people ask me how I ended up in FM, I often joke that I took the scenic route. Starting in HR straight ...

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Lexington Catering becomes largest partner in Westminster Supported Internship Programme

The London-based B&I caterer has become the largest partner in Westminster City Council’s Supported Internship Programme, showing its commitment to creating real career opportunities in catering and hospitality for young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND). Lexington Catering ...

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The Deborah Rowland Scholarship reveals second-year recipients

The Deborah Rowland Scholarship, a fund dedicated to discovering and nurturing emerging talent in the workplace and facilities management (WFM) industry, revealed its second-year recipients at a special evening event on 17 September. Rowland, Director Public Affairs at Sodexo, launched ...

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IWFM launches Level 6 strategic leadership programme

IWFM Academy has launched a new Level 6 strategic leadership programme aimed at aspiring Workplace and FM leaders looking to transform how they lead – whether it’s driving a team or influencing outcomes as an individual contributor. In a first ...

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Amey completes fourth cohort of its Women@Amey Leadership Development Programme

Amey has completed the fourth cohort of its award-winning Women@Amey Leadership Development Programme, a proven initiative helping to close the leadership gender gap in infrastructure and engineering. Since its launch in 2017, the majority of participants have progressed into new ...

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KST opens new accredited training centre 

Kings Secure Technologies (KST) has opened a new accredited training centre at its technology monitoring facility, K-SOC, located in the West Midlands, underscoring the Group’s commitment to investing in innovative learning opportunities and fostering a culture of continuous professional development. ...

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World FM Day 2025 – Resilience in Action: Sodexo spotlights Emily Davis’ journey into facilities management

To mark World FM Day and the theme Resilience in Action: FM Thriving in a World of Change, Sodexo UK & Ireland is proud to spotlight Emily Davis, Hospitality Support Manager in its Independent Schools business, who is taking a bold ...

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Careers in cleaning

Last month the British Cleaning Council (BCC) launched a UK Cleaning Career Development Zone, which says its Chair Delia Cannings aims to help address the lack of educational structure for staff progression in the sector The cleaning, hygiene and waste ...

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The benefits of joining networking groups

Whether new to the profession, working as the client-side FM or for a services provider, according to L&D experts, joining a networking group is a valuable way to exchange ideas and hear from different perspectives. What advice would you give ...

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