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Are you still thinking of recruiting apprentices?
New venue for Liverpool Dinner The popular Liverpool Region Charity Dinner has a new venue for 2025. Tickets are now on sale for the event that will take place on Friday 7 March 2025 at the Hilton Liverpool City Centre Hotel. Having sold out for many years, the new venue will allow the event to grow and accommodate more guests for an extended evening that will include a drinks reception, three- course meal, charity fundraising, comedian, DJ and dancing. Entertainment • Musician Maxine Molin will set the mood with her harp during the welcome drinks reception; • Comedian Jay McGee will provide the after-dinner entertainment; • Guests will be able to dance the night away to the sounds of the resident DJ. Fundraising
Most young people started university or sixth-form, or embarked on their fi rst step into work last month. However, there may still be plenty of young people out there looking for the right opportunity – this could be in logistics via the apprenticeship pathway Carl Hobbis, member services director at BIFA, said: “In the last few weeks, we produced a three-part series for BIFAlink TV covering the main elements you need to think about when recruiting an apprentice. “In no more than ten minutes you can find out an array of tips and best practices to help you cut through what can seem like a minefield. It’s quite a simple process and will be worth your time. We cover the elements of funding, recruitment, interview tips and onboarding. “In part 3 you will hear from BIFA’s very first apprentice,
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Let’s talk Apprenticeships - Part 3: Welcoming your new apprentice - hear from BIFA’s first apprentice. If you have any further questions about apprenticeships contact Carl Hobbis at c.hobbis@bifa.org
the specific QR codes: Let’s talk Apprenticeships - Part 1: The Apprenticeship levy, what to consider when recruiting. Let’s talk Apprenticeships - Part 2: The recruitment process.
Brooke, who gives her perspective as well.”
The evening will include a raffle and auction in support of the New Home campaign by Liverpool’s Zoe’s Place Baby Hospice. Sponsorship packages are available – please contact bifaevents@bifa.org for more information. Scan the
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Post-Brexit EU trade in ‘sharp decline’
The Centre for Business Prosperity at Aston Business School, University of Birmingham, released a research paper last month entitled Unbound: UK Trade post-Brexit. The full 93-page report can be accessed by scanning the
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impact on the activities of BIFA Members and the Secretariat is currently
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reviewing the report and will provide its analysis in due course.
6 | October 2024
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