Gloucestershire celebrates Apprenticeships Awards

Congratulations to Tom Silvey, winner of the Diamond Jubilee Outstanding Apprentice of the Year at last week’s first Gloucestershire Apprenticeships Awards. Tom, 23, is an engineering apprentice at engineering and metrology specialists, Renishaw, and received his award from guest of honour, The Princess Royal. There were 12 awards presented during the evening at the event, organized by The Citizen and Gloucestershire Echo. Awards covered sectors such as construction, financial and business and engineering and manufacturing. Employers of the year for their support of apprenticeship schemes were Target Public Relations, Messier- Bugatti-Dowty and EDF Energy. In a report on the ‘This is Gloucestershire’ website, ’ Ian Mean, editor of the Citizen, said, “Gloucestershire companies and organisations have now recruited more apprentices than any other part of the South West. I think that is a brilliant achievement.” To read more about how Gloucestershire are recruiting and developing apprentices, see the full article here http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/Royal-approval-Gloucestershire-Apprenticeships/story-15725509-detail/story.html