Working in partnership: Foundation and the Princes Trust boost career opportunities

Princes Trust

Since developing our job creation foundation in 2013, we have created and maintained powerful partnerships with organisations including the Princes Trust, the Hunslet Club, Probation Service and the Jobcentre Plus.

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Foundation’s success story featured in high profile event on skills shortage

Adam Walsh speaking at skills debate.

Adam Walsh speaking at the skills debate.

The Foundation’s powerful ‘back story’ has been heard by the region’s business leaders at a debate spearheaded by Yorkshire Business Insider which centred on solving the region’s skills shortage.

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Hats off at the Bayford Foundation!

Bayford Foundation, Hat day

In the adage of the proverb that all work and no play makes Jack – and Jill – a dull boy and girl, we’ve been having some fun and promoting a healthy work environment.

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We’ve Launched Our Second Bootcamp and Have More Jobs up for Grabs

The Bayford Foundation, BE Fuel Cards, Jobs, Employment, Unemployment, Graduates, Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire

The foundation’s new recruits, with recent graduates (front row), project leader June Forsyth (1st row right) and Mark Kilvington, director of BE Fuel Cards (back row left).

We’re marking a landmark week where our fab Foundation – spearheaded by our Hunslet based BE Fuel Cards team – has promoted four of our recruits into full time employment – and launched a second bootcamp with thirteen trainees.

Creating dozens of short term jobs and hundreds of long-term career opportunities, we are investing up to £5,000 to put each recruit through our training programme and paying them a salary for the duration. Successful candidates will be awarded a recognised qualification from The University of Derby.

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Recruits Energised By Storming and Inspirational Presentations

Nicky Pattinson, I Can

Our recruits at The Bayford Foundation came away energised from a fab event hosted by Richard McCann, who inspired our trainees in their first week.

The event featured motivational speakers including Andrew Walker, Billy Schwer and Nicky Patterson of “Hiya, It’s Nicky!”, – who shared her incredible story of scraping a living at a biscuit stall in a market to building £1.5million empire.

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