Supporting Forces Leavers into Construction Willmott Dixon offer work placements, mentoring, and construction careers advice and guidance to support people leaving the Forces in their transition to civilian life. Signatories of the Armed...
Background: Rita has had a varied career, gaining lots of transferable skills and qualifications and had never been out of work until she was made redundant in late 2018. Not securing a job made Rita feel extremely low so joined the 100 Women Programme in May 2019....
The Challenge In 2018, 11.3% of all young people aged 16to 24 years in the UK were not in education, employment or training (NEET). With the construction industry currently facing a skills shortage, it is important that we encourage young people into the industry and...
Louis Manchip, 17, a Carpentry Apprentice within the maintenance team at Magna Housing has been learning the ‘Carpentry ropes’ at Nokoto Drive, Bridgwater with help from E G Carter & Co Ltd. Louis usually spends a lot of his time on multiple housing sites across...
On October 4th Team Under Construction held an ‘Inspirational Women’ event as part of the 100 Women First project. One of our newly joined ladies attended the event as well as a trip to Hinkley Point C, this is her feedback… ‘It was really...
Written by Sylv Kerslake from Bridgwater Magazine What started out as a way to get her son to read and write more, they came to an agreement that she would write if her son did, so Bridgwater author, Fiona Baker, began her journey as a writer. Fiona lives in...
