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BIFAlink We of course wish Colin well, but will still see


him as he will carry on as our internal verifier for the BTEC work. However, Colin has joked that he will not miss some of the far flung places we have sent him to for in-house training.


Future planning As a proactive move – knowing Colin was going to retire one day – Carl Hobbis joined BIFA in February 2016 as training development manager and has worked closely with Colin over the past months. The BIFA team was further enhanced by the


Colin Joyce (right) celebrates a significant birthday in 2006 with the then BIFA Director General, Colin Beaumont


Colin Joyce retires


There has been a changing of the guard in the BIFA training department with the successors of stalwart Colin Joyce planning how best to meet future training needs


Over the past 30 years BIFA has trained thousands of freight forwarders on a variety of subjects. However anyone who has taken one of our skills improvement courses will have benefited from the knowledge and experience of Colin Joyce, who retired at the end of 2017. Colin has had two distinct forwarding careers


and by the mid-1980s was a Director of that famous forwarding name Thomas Meadows. In the ensuing merger of ownership into the ill-fated


Rockwood, he changed course and started Stansted Training Services providing skills enhancement tuition to forwarders and shippers.


High quality training Since then he has provided BIFA not only with high quality training but steered us through the complicated procedures to obtain BTEC certification on our Multimodal and Customs Procedures training courses.


employment of Graeme Wilkinson during 2017, and together Carl and Graeme will continue to deliver forwarding and Customs courses to the BIFA membership and wider logistics community throughout the UK. Carl stated: “Colin’s all-round industry


knowledge is incredible. Despite having worked in forwarding for over 30 years myself, I have learnt a lot from him since I have been at BIFA. “I also see every one of our delegate


evaluation forms and it is clear that not only do students learn a lot from Colin, but they love being in his company and his personal stories bring the sessions to life, cementing the learning. “In life though, the only constant is change, and


the need for training will only get greater. This gives us an opportunity to review our courses and make some changes where necessary. “We also have the availability of the


International Freight Forwarding apprenticeship on the horizon, so we will be working with Colin on tweaking our two BTEC courses to fit alongside this. In the spring, we will also be introducing a number of ‘behind the scenes’ tours for apprentices and are reviewing how we attract young people to work in this industry – all part of our wider training review. He concluded: “I have really enjoyed working


with Colin; he has been part of the BIFA team for so long now and has been so supportive – and still is – he certainly deserves to enjoy his retirement and not worry about customs procedures too much.”


Support your local Member group


BIFA holds Regional Member meetings around the UK and listed right are those due to occur soon. If you would like to attend and find out more


Region Heathrow Regional Members’ meeting January 2018


about BIFA and what we do, then contact the appropriate Regional Consultant to BIFA. All BIFA Members are entitled and


encouraged to attend their regional meetings Date Thu 25 Jan


Time 1400


Venue BIFA, Redfern House


however pre-booking with the named contact is essential. Full contact details are shown on page 3 of


this issue.


BIFA Contact Colin Young


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