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National Apprenticeship Week 2025 opportunities
BIFA Liverpool Region Dinner BIFA Members in the north-west will know that for many years, the BIFA Liverpool Region Annual Dinner has supported the local children's hospice, Zoë’s Place. In mid-October, Zoë’s Place Liverpool was facing closure, having failed to raise the funds needed to build a new home for the hospice, but thanks to a huge groundswell of support from the community, Zoë’s Place has now been saved. Friday 7 March 2025 will see the BIFA Liverpool Region annual dinner take place at The Hilton, Liverpool City Centre where guests can look forward to a night of entertainment, good food and after-dinner dancing, while raising further vital funds for Zoë’s Place. There are a limited number of places still available to book – go to www.bifa.org/ events to request your tickets for this black-tie event. BIFA is grateful to GenCo Logistics, Hapag-Lloyd, Maersk Logistics & Services, Peel Ports Group and Seacon SG for sponsoring the event.
National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) will take place from 10 to 16 February 2025. It is an opportunity for businesses to celebrate the achievements of apprentices around the country, and the contribution they make to communities, businesses and the wider economy. To support this, a new website and communications toolkit has been launched which contains an array of information and useful assets that BIFA members could use and adapt – https://naw.appawards.co.uk/ toolkit The NAW website and toolkit contain support and guidance on how to get involved. This includes social media graphics, key apprenticeship messages, facts and figures, graduation toolkits, and advice so that individuals and businesses can explore the full range of benefits that services director, BIFA, said: “We encourage Members to get involved and share the good work apprentices do by promoting careers in logistics, apprenticeships offer. Carl Hobbis, member
Funding band revision for Urban Driver apprenticeship standard BIFA has learned that the funding band for Urban Driver Apprenticeships has been revised to band 11, with an upper limit of £8,000. This will be welcome news to both employers and training providers and encourage more starters for this growing apprenticeship. The apprenticeship is aimed at customer delivery drivers making multiple collections and deliveries in built up areas. This is another positive step for apprenticeships in transport and logistics and another recruitment pathway for BIFA Members to consider to help address the skills shortage across the sector. For more information about the content of the Urban Driver Apprenticeship standard see: www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship- standards/urban-driver-v1-1
and the apprenticeship pathway in particular as an excellent option to consider for young people wishing to start a career.”
If you would like to discuss apprenticeships and how they work, get in touch with Carl Hobbis at c.hobbis@bifa.org to set up a call.
Our quiz master extraordinaire!
In his role as chairman of UKACC (the United Kingdom Air Cargo Club), David Stroud, BIFA policy and compliance advisor (air), hosted the UKACC annual quiz in November raising in Fifteen teams took part from across the air cargo industry, with three representing BIFA. Quiz master David had prepared a range of fiendish questions on general knowledge, history, sport, science and nature, music and TV and film. The excess of £300 for the Alzheimer’s Society.
After a tense wait while the scores were checked and checked again, the team from BIFA comprising Bob, Spencer, Ramandeep and Sharon (Sampeys) were victorious. A great night was had by all, and our thanks go to David and the team of volunteers at UKACC for organising the event. To donate to the UKACC Alzheimer’s Society
challenge was on to take the title from three-time winners GEODIS Freight Forwarding UK.
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6 | December 2024
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