Larkfleet Homes looks to the future with GPUTC

Several members of our staff recently joined forces with the new Greater Peterborough University Technical College (GPUTC) to help recruit students for its first year of operation.

GPUTC is a brand new technical education facility at the Park Crescent campus in Peterborough.  Due to open in September 2016, the state-of-the-art facility houses separate engineering and construction workshops, science and computer labs as well as social and communal areas.

The college has been holding a number of recruitment days with the support of local employers, such as Larkfleet, to help showcase the various courses on offer to prospective students who will be form 14 to 19 years old.

We have been involved with the GPUTC since before the first plans were drawn up.  We are delighted to be one of the local 'employer sponsors' for the project and we support the college plans wholeheartedly. Our CEO, Karl Hick sits on the college steering group.

Investing in the future of the construction industry by supporting local young people keen to take their first steps has always been part of our ethos and this partnership takes this to the next stage.

Among the Larkfleet staff attending the most recent UTC recruitment event were architect Mark Croker and trainee architect David Laidler.

David has been part of the Larkfleet team since starting his training.  His success has been influenced by the link created between his training and his work with us.  It is this success that we hope to re-create by our relationship with UTC.

Helen Hick, HR director for The Larkfleet Group of Companies, said: "We are delighted to be supporting this initiative by GPUTC.  At the open evening we talked both to prospective students and to parents and all of them were keen to explore the options on offer."