Andrew Aat
Accountancy

Training provider welcomes accountancy expert and former apprenticeship employer aboard

A leading north east training provider has appointed an accountancy expert and former apprentice employer to train the next generation of accounting technicians.

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Accountancy

Home Group uses the Apprenticeship levy to unlock talent

Home Group, one of the UK’s largest and most established housing associations, has used its apprenticeship levy to develop a management level accountancy programme in partnership with training company Access Training.

Olivia Davies With Her Mum Julia Oxley Davies
Business & Management

Mum knows best as Gateshead teen earns Access to new career opportunity

An ambitious young woman from Gateshead is following in her family’s footsteps after securing an apprenticeship with Access Training – a career path her mum embarked upon with the very same provider three decades ago.

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News

Recruitment Given A Health Check By Region’s GPs

GP surgeries across the North East are turning to apprenticeship programmes to help fill the skills gap which exists for quality administrative staff.
Gateshead Community Based Care (GCBC) is working with GP Practices in Gateshead to recruit apprentices on their behalf. Alyson Wilson, Operations Manager at GCBC, said: “There’s a lot of talk about skills shortages […]

Easibathe
News

It’s Easi to back Apprenticeships

Gateshead based Easibathe and Easiaccess is seeing the benefits of using apprenticeships to boost its workforce 3 times over in less than 12 months.
The North East based bathing and ramping specialist recruited its first apprentice, 20-year-old Elliot McClurry, in June 2013, through Access Training and have been very impressed with the potential he has already […]

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News

Benfield Apprentice Shifts Up A Gear Into New Management Role

A local apprentice who started as a business administration assistant more than a decade ago at Newcastle-based car dealership Benfield Motor Group has now progressed to customer engagement manager, thanks to help from Access Training.
Access Training placed 28-year-old Toni Nelson at Benfield Motor Group in 2003 to gain hands on workplace experience and complete her […]

Natasha Curry
News

Apprentice helps Gateshead enterprise networks embrace the digital era

An apprenticeship in Social Media and Digital Marketing has allowed a Gateshead employee to develop skills that have helped two Gateshead enterprise networks to grow their online presence.
Natasha Curry, 24 from Sunderland, was employed as Network Co-ordinator working for Digital Union and Gateshead Business, but her manager believed that with additional training and support, her […]

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News

North East businesses get help to go social

Companies keen to know how tweets, fans and followers can boost their bottom line are to get a helping hand as a new Social Media Apprenticeship is launched.
Access Training has introduced the course in response to an increasing number of SMEs that recognise the value of using social media as a marketing tool but don’t […]