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AutoRaise welcomes new Trustees
- 27/01/2020
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
AutoRaise has announced a board restructure alongside the appointment of new Trustees. The new board is: Dave Sargeant (chairman) - Gemini ARC; Steve Thompson (vice chairman) - Industry Insights/Connected Solutions; Marc Holding (secretary) - The Vella Group; Michael Golding - LV=; Ryan Johnson – Enterprise Rent [...] -
New VDA apprenticeship standard approved
- 24/04/2019
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
A new Vehicle Damage Assessor Apprenticeship Standard and End Point Assessment Plan has now been approved for delivery. The standard has been created by the industry Trailblazer group, which included representatives from all sections of the automotive industry. Designed by employers within the vehicle repair [...] -
AutoRaise celebrates its ‘biggest week’
- 11/03/2019
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
AutoRaise marked National Apprentice week with a full schedule of activities, making it, according to CEO Bob Linwood, 'the biggest week of the year.' He said, 'Life never seems to slow down at AutoRaise at the best of times, but this week is just massive for us. Monday saw us setting up camp at EMTEC College for [...] -
AutoRaise announces new trustees
- 27/09/2018
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
AutoRaise has announced a number of significant trustee appointments. The new appointments were made at the first AutoRaise annual general meeting on Thursday, 27 September in Birmingham. The meeting also agreed that founder trustee’s Hannah Crick, Karl Vella and Maria Charlton will become the charity’s [...] -
AutoRaise showcase three events
- 07/08/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
AutoRaise events in partnership with The Vella Group and Blackpool & The Fylde College hailed a massive success. Three AutoRaise showcase events held to raise awareness of AutoRaise and apprenticeship opportunities in the industry have created eight potential new apprentices for The Vella Group. The events, [...] -
AutoRaise heads for north west
- 06/07/2018
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
AutoRaise received commitment from Blackpool and The Fylde College (B & FC) to deliver training for its multi skilled apprenticeship standard and are working in partnership with The Vella Group, who have committed to start the colleges first cohort by committing to 10 new multi skilled apprentices across its five [...] -
AutoRaise plans new initiatives
- 01/11/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
AutoRaise recently gathered several of the industry’s leading repairers together to run the rule over some new initiatives being considered for launch in to the vehicle repair industry. The AutoRaise Repairer Consortium, made up of some of the UK’s leading repairers including Gemini ARC, Motofix, Apollo Motor [...] -
AutoRaise announces Board of Trustees
- 05/02/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
AutoRaise, the organisation behind the government approved multi-skilled Trailblazer apprenticeship standard, has announced its Board of Trustees. Bob Linwood of AutoRaise said, ‘We spent a lot of time considering the structure of the organisation and the skill sets and backgrounds required of the Trustees. They [...] -
National-ARG continues growth
- 05/05/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
National-ARG has added eight new sites to its network in just a few months, further expanding its UK wide coverage. Just Car Clinics has racked up three acquisitions since December 2014 firstly with Peterborough, and Dundee and Forfar following shortly after in March 2015; East Bilney Coachworks has expanded into [...] -
AutoRaise seeks new general manager
- 27/02/2023
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Automotive charity AutoRaise has launched a recruitment campaign for the newly-created role of general manager. The successful candidate will accelerate the progress made by the charity, which includes direct involvement of over 600 apprenticeship starts in the last 12 months, 182 affiliated repairer sites, 18 [...]