February 2024

To celebrate Apprenticeship Week we caught up with Beth and Ellie

2024-02-09T12:09:05+00:00February 9th, 2024|

Beth’s role has continued to develop, Beth now arranges and schedules all staff training for CCL and has been heavily involved in the training and implementation of the new digital Access system for the organisation. Beth’s confidence has grown within her role she recently jointly presented training sessions at the Annual Conference, another string to [...]

January 2024

CCL’s new Activity Centre has Planning Permission

2024-01-18T15:58:44+00:00January 18th, 2024|

We are pleased and excited to have been granted planning permission to build a new Activity Centre for our Day Opportunities Programme. Over several years, CCL have been trying to identify a potential property or land to develop our Opportunities Programme Facilities. With the support of Berry’s Property Consultancy, we are extremely pleased and excited [...]

March 2023

Beth Wins the Rising Star Award in Business Administration

2023-03-28T14:24:14+01:00March 28th, 2023|

On Tuesday 21st March, Beth Tudor, one of CCL’s budding apprentices attended the Hereford and Ludlow College County Training Apprenticeship Awards at the Gateway in Shrewsbury. Supporting her there, were her family, Beth’s Assessor Christine Burns, Chief Executive Vikki Pryce and Beth’s supervisor Gill Ward. The room was filled with anticipation with around 100 people [...]

February 2023

National Apprenticeship Week – Ellie’s Story

2023-02-06T12:30:49+00:00February 8th, 2023|

We last spoke to Ellie in March 2021 when she was working as an Administration Apprenticeship at the Head Office of CCL.  At that point in time she had aspirations to achieve a Level 4 in Business Administration and move into the HR Department. Ellie completed Business Administration in Level 3 and decided to go [...]

National Apprenticeship Week – CCL’s New Apprentice, Beth Tudor

2023-02-06T12:31:01+00:00February 6th, 2023|

To celebrate apprenticeship week we want to share the story of our newest apprentice. Beth started work for CCL in May 2022 as an Apprentice Administration Assistant and has flourished in her role, assisting everyone in the office on a day-to-day basis whilst completing her Business Administration Apprenticeship. Apprenticeships are a fantastic way to gain [...]

June 2022

DofE Bronze Award at Condover College

2022-06-16T14:35:18+01:00June 16th, 2022|

On the 9th June seven learners from the Grafton Centre took part in their Duke of Edinburgh Expedition, the last section to complete before achieving their Bronze award. Learners took part in an overnight stay at a campsite near the Long Mynd. On the weeks running up to the expedition all learners helped to prepare, [...]

April 2022

Hazel Rice receives her £100 cheque from the Employee Referral Scheme

2022-04-07T16:10:32+01:00April 7th, 2022|

"Thank you CCL for the employee cash incentive for referring someone to work at CCL. Lovely £100 cash bonus. The new member of staff has settled into his role as a support worker, and I hope other staff can benefit from this incentive" Hazel Rice  

August 2021

Communication Induction Training at CCL

2021-08-17T16:51:01+01:00August 17th, 2021|

Today, Laura Conway, our Lead Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, held Induction Communication Training at our Grafton Centre. Laura led the group through various aspects of communication, covering the importance of being able to communicate and a range of ways to do so with our learners and residents, such as Intensive Interaction and Makaton.   [...]

Celebrating Laura Conway Becoming a Dysphagia Practitioner

2021-08-16T16:23:14+01:00August 16th, 2021|

Today, we are celebrating Laura, our Lead Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, who recently qualified as a Dysphagia Practitioner. Dysphagia is the medical term used to describe swallowing difficulties (NHS, 2021). To celebrate Laura’s latest achievements, we sat down with her to discuss her career. Let’s take a look at her story…   Laura started [...]

July 2021

10 Year Service Awards: July 2021

2021-07-27T17:06:16+01:00July 27th, 2021|

10 Year Service Awards On Friday 23rd July, we celebrated another four members of our team reaching 10 years of service at CCL. Vikki Pryce, our Chief Executive, hosted the morning awards, accompanied by CCL’s Executive Group and tea, coffee and, most importantly, cake! For those of you who aren’t aware, we started our 10 [...]

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