ESS, part of Compass Group UK & Ireland, has launched ImprESS, a colleague training programme specially developed to put clients and customers at the heart of its service delivery. Whether they are providing catering, retail, cleaning or one of multiple ...

Celebrating the success of its ‘Mission to a Million’ campaign, Compass Group UK & Ireland is launching ‘Mission to a Million: Forward Together’, which sees the food and support services firm further expanding and enhancing its industry leading social mobility ...

A major funding package has been secured to help the UK construction sector address the estimated £21 billion in losses each year from poor workmanship. Regeneration specialist, Equans, has secured £193,000 in Industry Impact Funding from the Construction Industry Training ...

Sodexo UK & Ireland has partnered with HIT Training to support small and medium sized (SME) hospitality businesses with £250,000 funding from its annual apprenticeship levy. The partnership, says Sodexo, will remove financial barriers from SME hospitality businesses across the ...

CH&CO’s Apprenticeship Academy has been awarded the prestigious Princess Royal Training Award. The honour, formally approved by HRH The Princess Royal, President of the City and Guilds of London Institute, recognises organisations that demonstrate outstanding commitment to learning and development ...

Saira Khan, FIR Officer at the Supply Chain Sustainability School on how the FIR programme is helping to train, support and equip the built environment for the future Fairness, Inclusion and Respect, otherwise known as FIR, is a free industry-led ...

FM services provider, Bidvest Noonan, has joined Young Enterprise Northern Ireland (YENI), as an Impact Partner. Through this partnership, Bidvest Noonan will contribute to YENI’s enterprise education programmes, which reach over 90,000 students across Northern Ireland each year. These programmes ...

The government is promising more training for 16 to 21-year-olds in a bid to ‘refocus the skills landscape towards young, domestic talent’. However, it has also confirmed plans to scrap funding for postgraduate apprenticeships. What kind of impact could this ...

Joanne Gilliard, CEO at Jangro, explores how facilities managers can build resilience in the face of mounting pressures and why cutting cleaning budgets can be a false economy. The role of facilities managers has become increasingly demanding, with rising costs, ...

GTEC Training, a United Infrastructure company and provider of renewables and energy efficiency skills training in the UK, has been awarded £978,840 as part of the government’s Warm Homes scheme. The funding will help GTEC deliver a wide range of ...