REDCA R N E WS
Smiles -
winners
celebrate at
the Inspiring
Women
Awards.
INSPIRING WOMEN RECOGNISED
ON PROJECT’S FIFTH BIRTHDAY
I
nspiring women from across Redcar and
Cleveland have received recognition at a
special ceremony.
Nearly 100 people attended the annual
Inspiring Women Awards at Redcar’s Wilton
Centre as the ceremony celebrated its fifth
birthday.
Taking home the Mo Mowlam Award, the
main prize of the night, was Tina Jackson,
who also won the Women in Leadership
Award, sponsored by SABIC.
Tina founded The Link project in 2010 to
raise the profile of children’s mental health
and its effects on families, relationships,
education and communities.
The Link has since become an
incorporated Community Interest Company
and has helped more than 500 children and
young people who require emotional and
mental health support.
Other winners included:
> Amanda Smithson won the Individual
Achievement Award, sponsored by
Beyond Housing
New rig takes students
to the dizzy heights of
their future career
Passers-by at Redcar and Cleveland College
might have noticed a new addition to the
grounds – a 30-foot outdoor industrial
training rig.
Created to replicate the demands of
working in an industrial environment,
the facility will support training including
decommissioning, rope access and
industrial competency, as well as extending
the college’s working at heights and
confined spaces training.
Principal Jason Faulkner said: “The
training site will open up further
opportunities not just for our students and
young people but also those who are out of
work and looking to retrain or upskill.”
> Kendra McCormick won the Volunteer
Award, sponsored by PD Ports
> Leigh Smith won the Women in
Business Award, sponsored by Redcar
& Cleveland Borough Council
> Rayven Skye Masters won the Young
Woman Award, sponsored by Taylor
Wimpey
> Annalice Sibley who won the Inspiring
Others Award, sponsored by
Sembcorp
Former winners have helped the event’s
success by contributing their talents each
year. Julie Donaldson, a radio presenter for
Zetland FM and former Inspiring Women
award winner, hosts the event, and Ruth
Fox, a winner from the inaugural year in
2016, provides the catering through her
charity organisation Footprints in the
Community.
Ruth Fox, chair of the Inspiring Women
Steering Group, said: “This is such a
wonderful event, and it just keeps getting
better and better.”
DRIVING JOB ENDS
FIVE-YEAR WAIT
A dad has become the 500th person
helped into work by the East Cleveland
Training and Employment Hub.
Mark Playforth, 50, heard about the
employment hub, in Skinningrove after
five years of unemployment and is now
celebrating after landing a job as an HGV
driver at PD Ports.
The East Cleveland Training Hub
provides training and career advice for
local people. The hub is supported by
East Cleveland Villages Big Local, part-
funded by Sirius Minerals and delivered by
Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council, in
partnership with Jobcentre Plus.
MP calls on businesses
to consider
apprenticeships
Redcar MP Jacob Young has
urged businesses to benefit from
booming Teesside by supporting
apprenticeships and technical
training.
The 27-year-old former
chemical industry apprentice was
speaking on a return visit to TTE
Technical, where he trained, and
which was recently acquired by
Middlesbrough College Group.
Mr Young urged employers to
use apprenticeships and soon-to-
be-launched T Levels to capitalise
on the wealth of opportunities
taking off on Teesside, citing
the likes of the SSI site takeover,
Middlesbrough’s digital cluster
and the National Horizons Centre.
Middlesbrough College’s
acquisition of TTE Technical
safeguarded more than 70 jobs.
Employment team
celebrates 300th
success
A man who moved to
Grangetown with no job, no
contacts and limited qualifications
has secured a highly prized
apprenticeship.
Macauley Irving, 23, is the
300th young person to be helped
into work, education or training
by the Redcar and Cleveland
Council’s Youth Employment
Initiative (YEI) team.
He started a new career as an
apprentice for the international
logistics company Den Hartogh at
Wilton as a warehouseman and
forklift truck driver.
The YEI team helped him gain
qualifications including paying for
courses, improving his interview
technique and helping him with
transport and interview clothing
costs.
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