Fusion21

Fusion21 has been shortlisted for a prestigious Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) award

We are down to the last four entries in the HCA's Investing in Skills- Tackling worklessness through training and apprenticeships, an award that is being sponsored by the Chartered Institute of Housing.

Fusion21 have been shortlisted due to demonstrating our commitment to creating employment and training opportunities in local communities.

The Fusion21 Skills Programme has been shortlisted for the award due to its innovative approach and impressive results. Since implementation the Skills Programme has helped to create 614 sustainable jobs in the construction industry.

Funded by Fusion21’s contractors and suppliers – the Fusion21 Skills Programme is a superb testament to partnership working at its best. It means the investment made by the Social Landlords is in large part returned to the communities in which they work – because a third of our ‘graduates’ live in RSL properties.

The Skills programme has created life changing opportunities’ for all who successfully graduate from it ,creating a real impact at individual level.

A graduate of the programme Danielle McGiven, said ’I’d been unemployed for 2 years and was lucky to get on the course. I knew I could be as good at plastering as the men – and if anything, better – because I’m tidy!’
Danielle was successful in gaining employment with a major regional contractor working on a mix of social and private housing projects.

Over the past five years Fusion21 has successfully integrated and promoted equality and diversity policies within its own and its partners’ operations, focusing particularly on increasing the representation of women, BME and the disabled within the construction industry.

Head of Skills at Fusion21, Jan Agger, said: “We are delighted to have been shortlisted for this prestigious award. The Fusion21 Skills team have been working extremely hard and I am enormously pleased that their hard work has been recognised on a national level.”

Fusion21 will learn if we have been successful at an awards ceremony held in London on the 23rd September.


http://skills.homesandcommunities.co.uk/awards