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BACK OF THE NET! BiKBBI confirm partnership with Charlton Athletic Women’s Football Club
Supporting the next generation and providing equal opportunities is the credo behind the BiKBBI’s agreement to become principle partners of Charlton Athletic Women’s FC for three years, until 2021. The partnership is just the beginning of a concerted drive by the institute to introduce young women to its industry, and particularly, for a vocational Photography by Keith Gillard
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career within KBB installation. The announcement perfectly coincides with the excitement currently around the opening of the BiKBBI’s Approved Training Facility and the Apprenticeship launch at PROCAT back in September. The BiKBBI has identified the partnership with Charlton Athletic Women’s FC due to the synergy between the two organisations
and women’s football in general. BiKBBI CEO, Damian Walters explains, “There has been a seismic shift in the last few years of the general acceptance of women in trades that have traditionally been the domain of blokes, like general building and plumbing for example. This change of attitude has been most identifiable in sport, with a much ‘levelling of the playing field.” For example, the FA (Football
