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Our archive of project updates, articles and opinion pieces by our partners about the Future of Work, Technology and their individual work experiences and passions.
BuildForce announces new partnership with The Royal Foundation
BuildForce, set up in 2016 to help the ex-military community into construction careers, is delighted to report they will now be working in partnership with The Royal Foundation, the primary charitable vehicle of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and The Duke and...
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BuildForce celebrates 100th job start
Ethos, project delivery partner, are delighted to announce that the hugely successful ex-forces career transition programme, BuildForce, has placed its 100th job seeker. Nick Channer OBE has taken a position at security and logistics firm Wilson James, a founding...
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Interview with Mike Davis-Marks Former Naval Commander and Ethos Partner
High Pressure Decisions Leadership Insights From Four Hundred Feet Under Mike developed leadership skills at an early age in the scouts and went on to a successful naval career in which he commanded submarines four hundred feet under with 120 crew in life or death...
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Team Army/Team Ethos celebrate £6m raised for Forces sport!
Over the past seven years, Team Ethos/Team Army has been tirelessly working to enable thousands of soldiers to take part in sport. Today we would like to announce a major milestone as we have now raised over £6m to help the best get better! Maj Gen Lamont Kirkland CBE...
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Military Leavers into Construction project celebrates success ahead of Armed Forces Day
Ahead of Armed Forces Day tomorrow, our BuildForce Project Manager, discusses how we are helping ex-military personnel find a future in the construction industry. First published in the CIOB website. BuildForce is an Alliance of construction employers, industry bodies...
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Ethos turns over a New Leaf
Ethos has launched a new event planning and delivery company, New Leaf Events, headed up by partners Usha Chadha and Kerry Godley-McAvoy, both members of our successful Team Army/Team Ethos team. With Team Army/Team Ethos now successfully raising over £1M per year in...
read moreAdrenalin-pumping Olympic ice sports growing in popularity
While you may have been watching Forces athletes Lamin Dean and Nick Gleeson competing in Team GB’s 4-man bobsleigh in last month's Winter Olympics in PyeongChang…the Army Ice Championships were taking place in Winterberg, Germany, featuring Skeleton, Luge and...
read moreBuilding the future for local communities
A major regeneration project in the borough of Lewisham will be completed in 2020 and will result in new and improved schools, public transport, high street facilities, outdoor spaces and walking & cycling routes. Funded by Lewisham Council and the Mayor of London,...
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You’re Hired! How one man crowdfunded his way out of homelessness
In August 2017, Joe, who had been homeless and unemployed for over a decade, made his first step towards changing his life and joined Beam - a social impact business which uses crowdfunding to help homeless people train up and get into work. Joe had worked in...
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Delivering more with less – joining the dots in Reading
Within a small geographic area, Reading has some of the most affluent and the most deprived neighbourhoods in the whole of the Thames Valley, and the gap is widening. While a higher than average 76.2% of the large working age population is in employment (compared to a...
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Lewisham Construction Hub officially opens
We’re delighted to announce that a dedicated employment hub for Lewisham residents, a partnership between Lewisham Council, Lewisham Southwark College, our construction brokerage BuildLondon and BE Group, is now officially open. Funded by the council and the Mayor of...
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BuildLondon announces support for Carillion apprentices & employees
Statement from specialist construction job brokerage partnership BuildLondon The BuildLondon team are conscious of the huge impact the recent announcement that Carillion is going into liquidation will have on a significant number of apprentices, employees and their...
read moreThe most significant event since the .COM crash?
Full disclosure - I have some pretty insignificant investments in the coin-o-sphere - please don’t make any investment decisions based on this story!! I’ve been a tech-cum-businessman for about 30 years. More recently (last 7) I’d probably substitute the businessman...
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YOU have my permission (aka Annabelle ruined my life!)
I woke last saturday morning before 6.00am as I’m in the habit of doing nowadays. After a great Ethos week I inevitably found my head full of Ethos thoughts and “buzzing” with synthesising feelings (the weekends are much needed time for me in this respect) and...
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. @CITB_UK commits to helping construction adopt digital skills - https://t.co/OwMzTYuMtj - via @TCIndex
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Pics from last week's great Armed Forces Construction Insight Day hosted by Major Tony Finch. A full house of high calibre candidates and thanks to all Alliance partners including Gary Sullivan OBE, @WJ_Ltd Matthew Bartlett, @Lendleaseuk for sharing their experiences.
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