It’s definitely looking a lot like Christmas following an action packed day which commenced with a colourful splash of Christmas jumpers – and finished with a festive feast for our fab team.
Our deep rooted ethos to give back to our local communities see us fundraise every Friday, our ‘dress down day’, to Leeds Children’s Charity whose inspirational work brings laughter into the lives of 7-11 from some of the most deprived areas in Leeds.
Following the recent spotlight on Novus, our series of fab partner organisation profiles continues with a focus on public services provider, Reed in Partnership.
A sister company of recruitment and training titan, The Reed Group, Reed in Partnership delivers employability programmes that support jobseekers nationwide. Continue reading
Double ‘congratulations’ are in order as Sherelle Senior is promoted from credit junior to credit controller – and attains her Level 3 CICM diploma in Credit Management.
Sherelle’s achievements with The Right Fuelcard Company, which manages our Foundation, reinforce how our trailblazing training and development programme continues to pay dividends.
We’ve more exciting awards news to share with you!
Our reputation as a great employer – which creates opportunities for the disadvantaged and long-term unemployed – has been further acknowledged.
The Right Fuelcard Company (TRFC), who runs our fab Foundation, has scooped the Diversity award in The Yorkshire Post’s Excellence in Business Awards 2017, where it was also shortlisted in the Outstanding Employer category. Continue reading
The first of a series of profiles on our valued partners focuses on offender aid pioneer, Novus, which has been delivering education, training and employment opportunities to adult and young prisoners for more than 20 years.
Thirty-five year old Gareth Conlon was forced to review his options when mobility problems meant he could no longer continue as a printer.
Yet another new starter has entered the Bayford Foundation‘s pioneering training environment. Here, rookie data inputter, Nicola Tuke, 43, talks about her first impressions of working for an organisation with a very progressive approach to helping its people succeed.
Our Foundation has evolved and developed in three busy years since our Bayford Foundation manager, Nick Elletson came on board.
To mark the occasion, we took Nick down memory lane and asked him about the highlights across 2014-2017.
In the same week that we were commended for our commitment to create jobs for the long-term unemployed, our Business Director, Adam Walsh, was highly commended in the IoD Director of the Year Awards Yorkshire & North East.
L to r Adam Walsh, Sue Jackson from Novus, Carol Richardson and Nick Elletson.
We’re proud as punch to be highly commended in a prestigious national award for our ongoing commitment to creating opportunities for disadvantaged and long-term unemployed jobseekers.
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