Page 16 - Under The Roof Avonside Group staff newsletter - June 2019

UNDER THE ROOF

APPRENTICE AND TRAINEE NEWS
National Apprenticeship

Week Ends on a High for

Avonside!

WITH THE ROOFING INDUSTRY FACING AN EVER-
GROWING SKILLS GAP, IT’S ALWAYS POSITIVE NEWS
WHEN UP-AND-COMING YOUNG ROOFERS SUCCEED
AND ACHIEVE.
—
We’re proud to report that Tyler Pedrick, a 22-year-old
apprentice at our Avonside Braintree Residential
Roofing branch, was crowned Apprentice of the Year
2019 in Eastern Region Roof Training Group Ltd’s
(ERRTG) awards, ending National Apprenticeship Week
with a bang. A huge congratulations to Tyler (pictured).
Olivia Gilbert from ERRTG said: “We are so pleased
that this year’s apprentice of the year is Tyler Pedrick. It
was an easy choice, he is a pleasure to teach, always
hard working with excellent attendance and
punctuality. He continues to impress us with his
attitude to learning and maturity.
“We feel that Tyler has a very bright future.”
We’re also hugely proud of Ross Brazitis (pictured),
an apprentice at our Colchester Residential Roofing
branch, who scooped the Best Newcomer award. ceremony to get involved in National Apprenticeship
Eastern Region Roof Training Group Ltd carried Week and to mark the hard work of promising
out team building activities, talks about the important apprentices who have stood out.
role apprenticeships play, and held an exciting awards National Apprenticeship Week ran 4th–8th March
as a nationwide celebration (and now a social media
movement), uniting employees and apprentices in
recognising the powerful impact that apprenticeships
can have on people and workplaces.
We are strong advocates in apprenticeships,
recruiting 50 apprentices last year alone as we believe
in bringing the best quality of people into our business.
As Eddie Stanton, our Flat Roofing Divisional Director,
said in his interview with RCI Magazine in January:
“To help tackle the skills shortage issue, I think we
(individual companies and industry representatives)
need to go into schools and speak directly to students
about promoting the opportunities and routes to
progression that are available within the roofing
sector.
“Ultimately, I think we have to sell youngsters a
career, rather than a job.”

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