Underlining its commitment to bringing more youngsters into the fenestration industry, Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice has strengthened its collaboration with the Education and Employers Charity to promote their 'Inspiring the Future' programme. Inspiring The Future has been designed to connect young people with the world [...]
The Inspiring The Future campaign of Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice is going from strength to strength. Among the latest organisations to support the initiative is Strata Windows, the Staffordshire domestic and commercial window and door installer. Underlining the goal it shares with Building Our Skills [...]
Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration, Glass and Glazing a Career of Choice is expanding its national network of practical training centres with the addition of two new academy sites. The first is via a partnership with BUILD training, located near Heathrow airport, and the other through collaboration with Glass & Fenestration Training Solutions [...]
Building Our Skills is increasing the range of practical training courses thanks to a new a partnership with Pro-Fitter, the specialist fenestration training provider. Building Our Skills - Making Fenestration a Career of Choice is significantly increasing the range of practical training courses it offers thanks to a new a partnership with Pro-Fitter, the [...]
Building Our Skills practical training gets thumbs up from NYG Building Our Skills has completed its commitment to train sixty new-to-the-fenestration-industry installers using funding provided by the Midlands Energy Hub and BEIS. Among others who benefitted from the training was North Yorkshire-based home improvement company, NYG, who sent their young and trainee installers onto [...]
Research conducted by Building Our Skills has identified that at the end of the first week in May there were over 1100 vacancies for installers being advertised on job sites throughout the UK. The research was conducted in association with partner FrontFoot, specialists in re-introducing military service personnel into mainstream industry. It is the [...]
Building Our Skills – Making Fenestration a Career of Choice is delighted to announce it has signed a partnership with FrontFoot, specialists in re-introducing service personnel into mainstream industry as a part of its aim to bridge the skills gap in the fenestration industry. It is the latest initiative from BOS following the signing [...]
Two-weeks into the launch of Building Our Skills #ICommit – Inspiring the Future campaign, Stephanie Tague, Head of the organisation tells how overwhelmed she is with the response, but still urges more Fenestration businesses and individuals to come forward and support what is currently one of the industry’s biggest challenges. “When we launched the [...]
Building Our Skills – Making Fenestration A Career of Choice (BOS) has embarked on a recruitment drive with a difference - ‘highlighting the need for the industry to come together and eliminate its ever-growing skills gap’. Continuing to build on its key objective, heighten awareness of the Fenestration industry to new and young people, [...]
Building Our Skills has had confirmation from the Midlands Energy Hub and BEIS that the funding provided for skills training is unaffected by the cancellation of the Green Home Voucher Scheme. Speaking about the announcement and the funding, Building Our Skills Ambassador John Ogilvie commented “I think there had been a feeling for some [...]
