Proskills Awards 2010
Sponsors
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Below the list of 2011 sponsors:
GQA
Sponsor of the Apprentice of the Year Award & Table Sponsor
GQA Qualifications is the specialist Awarding Organisation offering qualifications in, primarily, areas of the Proskills (SSC) footprint including Glass, Print and Coatings. This includes competence based qualifications, NVQ’s, SVQ’s and QCF qualifications and Technical Certificates for Automotive Glaziers, Glass Manufacturers, Fabricators, Glass Processors, Glaziers, Installers, Machine Printers, Print Finishers and Coatings Operatives and Technicians.
Jotun
Sponsor of Learner of the Year Award
The Jotun Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of paints, coatings and powder coatings.
The group has 70 companies and 38 production facilities on all continents and is represented in more than 80 countries. Jotun's operations cover development, production, marketing and sales of various paint systems and products to protect and decorate surfaces in the residential, shipping and industrial markets. In 2010 the Jotun Group had a total sales income of £1.5 billion, and has today 7 800 employees.
Jotun is committed to furthering the knowledge of its employees through investing in competence development programmes to gain competitive advantage.
Smurfit Kappa
Sponsor of Achiever of the Year Award
World Leader in Paper-based Packaging
Smurfit Kappa UK is one of the country's leading corrugated packaging manufacturers. The fully integrated company incorporates a packaging recycling division, a paper mills division, a corrugated sheet board manufacturing division and 35 paper based packaging plants. The company has the heritage, knowledge and experience to provide a full spectrum of paper-based packaging solutions and cardboard recycling services across the UK. Smurfit Kappa UK is the leader in sustainability for the paper based packaging sector and has a well-earned reputation for its corporate responsibility and personnel development initiatives within its sustainability programme.
NSG Group
Sponsor of Advanced Apprentice of the Year Award
Founded in 1918, NSG acquired glass manufacturer Pilkington plc in June 2006. Today, the enlarged company has sales of approximately JPY 600bn, manufacturing operations in 29 countries and sales in 130 countries, employing 28,500 people worldwide.
The Group is one of the world's leading manufacturers of glass and glazing systems for Building Products, Solar Energy Generation, Automotive and Specialty Glass. The company is highly focused on quality and service, continually improving to deliver the benefits of our technical ability and innovation to the end user. Development of our people, including our popular Apprenticeship programme, has been an important factor in our success.
Mentor
Sponsor of Employer of the Year Award & Table Sponsor
Mentor deliver fully accredited operator training courses for all types of materials handling, workplace transport and mobile plant equipment - from fork lift trucks to lorry mounted cranes and manual handling to wheeled loaders. With over 180 instructors and training professionals Mentor offer true national coverage to their customers and have invaluable experience of working with all types and sizes of businesses across all industry sectors.”
The Vocational College
Sponsor of SME Employer of the Year Award
Formed in 1995, The Vocational College is an award winning National Skills Academy provider with substantial SFA Contracts covering the UK. Recently TVC have worked with Proskills to develop the new SASE frameworks and assisted GQA in writing new QCF qualifications.
The Vocational College consistently enjoys success rates significantly above the National averages for both Apprenticeship and NVQ programmes, and are a National Training Award winner and hold the Matrix Kite Mark for outstanding work towards Information Advice & Guidance. The College are also a long-standing ILM Centre, incorporating the International Bullet-Proof Manager Award, Teaching and Learning, (QTTLS) courses, and Coaching programmes.
Unite the Union
Sponsor of Union Learning Rep of the Year Award
Unite the Union is pleased to sponsor the Proskills UK ‘Union Learning Rep’ Award. Unite has played a major role in Proskills at sector level and Board level.
Unite is Britain’s biggest union with 1.5 million members in every type of workplace and was created to meet the great challenges facing working people in the 21st century. unite is a democratic and campaigning union which fights back for employees in the workplace.
Two of the biggest challenges Proskills and Employers’ face in working with companies is to enable employees to access the training they deserve. Unite union learning reps are an important resource to assist in these challenges.
Union Learning Agreements have played a major role in bridging the skills gaps in the workforce.
SERAC
Table Sponsor
SERAC is the UK’s leading quality learning & assessment service provider for the Extractives & Mineral Processing Industry.
With our national network of over 40 trainers & assessors we deliver learning and assessment services to a wide range of clients & other industry sectors including: Health & safety, waste, recycling & environmental management.
Serac also offers a fantastic range of training courses tailored to suit all size of business and training requirements. Our innovative approach and delivery methods are aimed to meet the specific needs of learners and business alike.
Visit our website at www.serac.co.uk
DS SMITH PACKAGING
Table Sponsor
DS Smith Packaging International is the UK’s foremost corrugated packaging manufacturer.
DS Smith Packaging International is part of DS Smith PLC, an international group with sales of approximately £2.1 billion focussed on packaging and paper.
