Pre-employability programmes

The pre-employability programmes serves as a way to upskill individuals and assisting them in finding employment in the construction industry.

Not only does this assist with creating opportunities for learners to help fill the skills gap in the industry, there is a moral obligation for Watkins to contribute to there social value and create opportunities for the wider community.

Over the past few months

Watkins has had the pleasure of working with some fantastic organisations, in addition to our ongoing relationship with North Kent College.

Watkins Academy recently completed a preemployment programme with Wates, for residents in East London.

With the help of the Academy team, the learners gained qualifications in Health and Safety in Construction and First Aid and will be sitting their CSCS tests in the coming weeks.

Social Value plays a major part in business engaging with local communities and creating opportunities for residents.

Watkins teamed up with the Hill Group UK and invited Liberty Training college learners to get a first-hand experience of a working site.

We are also very excited to announce that Roy Lovelock is also now on the board of Governors for Liberty!

“Both learners and staff had a thoroughly enjoyable day, and this was a fantastic learning opportunity for us all, providing learners with real-life, hands-on experiences Learners left motivated and excited about their future careers in construction We are very grateful to the team for accommodating our visit ”

A fantastic, enjoyable and thoroughly rewarding 5 day pre-employability programme run alongside the Prince Trust, engaging with 12 superb learners, working towards obtaining their IOSH Safety, Health and Environment for Construction Workers Certificate and CSCS card, to enable them to find employment in the construction industry.