inclusive
Forging links within the local communities has always been a key priority for the Seddon Group.
Whenever we commence any project, our inclusive approach means that workers from the immediate area are proactively recruited.
Seddon also remains heavily involved with schools, continually providing work experience opportunities for local pupils.
Local people and local communities continue to be very important to us.
People
We strongly believe in our people, and it is those people who are at the heart of our business.
Our work force is amongst the most highly skilled in the construction sector. This is due in no small way to the group's considerable investment of both money and resource into our apprenticeship and training schemes.
Group investment now amounts to 4 million per year and as a further part of this commitment we already have our own purpose built skills training centre in Stoke.
The apprentice scheme at Seddon is unrivalled. Each year we recruit more than fifty apprentices and we currently have over one hundred and fifty people, often from the communities in which we work, learning crafts such as bricklaying, joinery, plumbing and painting.
We also support the training and degree courses which help our managers and specialists to gain the professional qualifications that are essential to their career development.
In this way we are helping to safeguard the future of our company, and of our industry.
The group recently received recognition of this longstanding support of furthering knowledge when Stoke-on-Trent college named its state-of-the-art construction department 'The John Seddon Building Technology Centre'.