MEMBERNEWS IN BRIEF
Construction company gives students insight into the world of work
Staff from Derbyshire-based Wildgoose Construction are visiting local schools and supporting university students to share their expertise about the world of work. The Alfreton company’s
Executive Chairman, Jonathan Wildgoose, gave a masterclass at Derby Moor Academy recently, which was also attended by Wildgoose Marketing Manager Carol Atherton. He delivered a talk about Wildgoose Construction and answered questions from students. Carol and Jackie Elson,
Wildgoose Marketing Assistant, also visited a careers fair at David Nieper Academy in Alfreton to support students. Students from the School of
Built Environment and Engineering at Leeds Beckett University will be supported by Wildgoose Construction staff as they complete their final year dissertation projects and two members of Wildgoose staff will visit Newton Primary School later this month to take part in a career awareness event. Berni Dickinson, D2N2
Employer Engagement Enterprise Co-ordinator, helped to organise the masterclasses at Derby Moor.
Family becomes first in Midlands to buy home under Government scheme
A couple have realised their home ownership dream after becoming the first in the region to buy their home under the Government’s Voluntary Right to Buy scheme. The Hunt family, from
Somercotes, Derbyshire, bought their two-bed housing association home from Futures Housing Group. Anika and Steven Hunt, who
have two children, are now home owners having struggled for years to get onto the property ladder. Steven said: “It’s unbelievable
to be a homeowner. To know this is now ours is a great feeling. Without Voluntary Right to Buy I don’t think we would be on the property ladder.” Futures Housing Group, which manages 10,000 homes throughout the region, helped launch the Government’s voluntary Right to Buy pilot last August when Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government James Brokenshire visited its head office in Ripley, Derbyshire.
The accommodation scheme is set to be completed in August 14 business network April 2019
Award-winning agency are masters in marketing
Leicester-based strategic brand and communications agency Masters Allen has been shortlisted for a European-wide award. It comes on the back of the
business winning Marketing Campaign of the Year 2018 for its work with the British Horse Society at the Chamber’s Leicestershire Business Awards. Masters Allen specialises in
finding what companies stand for and what makes them truly different from their competitors, giving customers a genuine and compelling reason to choose their brand. Masters Allen is now on the
shortlist for the Transform Awards Europe 2019, in the Best Creative Strategy category, for its work with food supplier Blacks Cheese. Masters Allen will have its work benchmarked against other shortlisted agencies and has been judged by a panel of industry experts. All panel members have
experience in branding, marketing, corporate communications and advertising for a wide perspective. Sean Master, Creative Director
and Partner at Masters Allen, said: “It was great to win the award at the Chamber’s Leicestershire Business Awards last year, I am so
Masters Allen has been shortlisted for its work with Blacks Cheese
‘Masters Allen is now on the shortlist for the Transform Awards Europe 2019’
proud of the team for the work they delivered. “To be recognised again with
another creative client campaign spurs us on to keep pushing for better.”
Student accommodation in focus
Focus Consultants is undertaking multiple roles at a student accommodation scheme being built on the site of the former Dagfa School in Beeston, Nottingham. The former independent school
in Broadgate, which was based round the 18th Century house, closed in 2016. The scheme started on site last summer and is set to complete on schedule in August,
ready for the start of the 2019 academic year. Focus Consultants is acting as
quantity surveyor and employer’s agent on the project to create three new student accommodation blocks which will provide 217 student beds. Being constructed by fellow Chamber member GF Tomlinson, the accommodation is a mix of 12-bed townhouses and cluster flats.
Focus, which is based at Phoenix
Business Park, Nottingham, is also the project manager, quantity surveyor and principal designer for the conversion and refurbishment of the Grade II Dagfa House into 19 student studios. Senior Project Manager at Focus,
Joanne Hardwicke, said: “The site of the former Dagfa School is on the doorstep of the University of Nottingham campus and Beeston town centre, and this scheme will provide fantastic new student accommodation. “Focus Consultants works on
developments across the East Midlands and the UK, in many sectors, but it is very pleasing to be involved in a scheme such as this in our home city.” Focus Consultants, which also
has offices in Leicester, London, Newark and Boston, offers a range of professional services to the property and construction sector, including building surveying, project management and sustainable development support.
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