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Laura Rutherford, PAMIS; Cara Devaney and daughter Layla; Matthew Watson, OCS and Mark Johnston, Managing Director, Glasgow Airport
MadeBrave® joins forces with Campfire®to create new group
Glasgow Airport opens special Changing Places support facility
G
lasgow Airport has opened a new £140,000 Changing Places facility to
support passengers with profound and multiple learning difficulties. The room will also benefit passengers with a wide range of physical disabilities such as spinal injuries, muscular dystrophy and multiple sclerosis who often need extra equipment and space to allow them to use toilet facilities safely and comfortably. With more than 9.9 million passengers travelling through its doors in 2017,
Glasgow becomes the largest airport in Scotland to house a Changing Places facility and one of 14 across the UK.
Representatives from the
Scottish charity Promoting A More Inclusive Society (PAMIS), which supports people with learning disabilities in Scotland, were invited to the airport to help open the facility. The airport’s compliance
team along and its Person of Restricted Mobility (PRM) provider OCS worked with representatives from PAMIS on the design and requirements of the facility.
GRAHAM builds a path to university degree for staff
A new Graduate Apprenticeship scheme that gives company employees the opportunity to gain higher education through the workplace has been supported by GRAHAM. Delivered as part of the GRAHAM Academy Scotland, nine current and new employees of the construction company have joined the programme this year. The undergraduate degrees in civil engineering, construction management and quantity surveying will be completed at Heriot Watt University and Glasgow Caledonian University. The scheme is hosted and funded by Skills
Creative brand agency MadeBrave has announced a tie-up with award-winning Edinburgh-based content production agency Campfire. The deal will see the creation of a holding company, BornOriginal Group, under which MadeBrave and Campfire will continue to operate independently with MadeBrave’s founding director Andrew Dobbie ascending to group CEO and Campfire founder Lewis Phillips becoming a director and shareholder in the group, while continuing to run Campfire as a director. With existing offices at its Glasgow HQ and recently- opened London office, the deal will give the group a footprint in Scotland’s capital.
Campfire, located in Leith’s fast-growing creative and digital hub, specialises in creative, high-quality film production across multiple channels and has built credentials in emerging technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and motion graphics. Founded in 2012, MadeBrave is headquartered in the east end of Glasgow’s Clyde Gateway-owned Albus Building. It announced one of its largest ever contracts recently, with the appointment as sole creative partner for First Bus Scotland, owned by global transport giant FirstGroup plc. MadeBrave offers brand, design, marketing strategy, social media and campaign creation.
Lewis Phillips (left), Founder, Campfire® with Andrew Dobbie, Director, MadeBrave®
Reiss Fleming (left), Engineering Trainee who has completed a Technical Apprenticeship at Glasgow Kelvin College and Gerard O’Hare, Project Manager, GRAHAM Construction
Development Scotland in a bid to provide a route into degree-level education for those currently employed or those who want to go straight into work. Each course is designed around the needs of the construction industry to ensure employees are learning the necessary skills.
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