Congratulations to Sophie Paterson of Jenrick Commercial who is the latest winner of The Jenrick Experience, a popular wellbeing initiative at Jenrick.

For a long time, Sophie has loved wakeboarding but has always wanted to brush up on her skills and learn some new extreme tricks that she can show off to all her family and friends.

Sophie entered the Jenrick Experience asking if she could get some secret professional wakeboarding lessons to help her become a pro! And now that her name has been picked out of the hat she can now make this dream a reality.

Here’s what Sophie wrote for her entry:

To set the scene…..nearly every week-end in the summer I spend my days at a lake in Yateley, Hampshire where Chris (boyfriend) and his brother (Phil) own a jet ski and where we all wakeboard.

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Jenrick IT, the award-winning IT recruitment agency, is considering a new scheme to help IT workers that have been made redundant or have lost their contract due to budget cuts.

Many such IT professionals are being told that “they have become de-skilled,” possibly due to the fact that they were supporting legacy systems.

There is nothing more frustrating both for a good agency and hard working candidates than finding no suitable roles in this current market place.

As such, Jenrick IT is currently considering an initiative to launch its very own grant programme, which would enable a limited number of IT professionals to be partially or totally funded to attend re-training programmes, to up-skill their knowledge in order to find new work opportunities.

I (Jane Stevens, specialist IT recruitment consultant)  wondered what the market thought of this proposal, whether there was a view on what amount of funding would be appropriate and whether it should be a question of candidates applying to us and then selection either by “first name out of the hat” method or whether some other criteria could be used.

Any ideas on the above would be warmly received.

Please contact Jane Stevens, Jenrick IT: 01932 245 500 - jane.stevens@jenrick.co.uk with your thoughts.

Welcome to the 12 winning entries from this year’s charity photo competition from the Jenrick Recruitment Group. The final 12 will all feature in the 2012 Jenrick Corporate Charity Calendar and in addition, be able to donate to their favourite charity from a pool of £1,200.

The theme for this year was “What I love about weekends” . . . . .

If you’d like to enter next year’s competition, just send an email to photo@jenrick.co.uk to be added to the mailing list.

For more details on Jenrick, please visit: www.jenrick.co.uk.

The Jenrick Group recently held a Charity ‘Car Wash Day’ to help raise money for Maple Ridge Primary School based in Basingstoke, Hampshire.

Maple Ridge Primary School have counted the last donation box from the car wash which came to a grand total of £134.67! Thank you all who contributed.

This money will go towards equipment for the new sensory area (enclosed safe garden) for the children.

Maple Ridge is a school that works with Children with special communication needs, specifically Autism. Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with, and relates to, other people and the world around them. It is a spectrum condition, which means that, while all people with autism share certain areas of difficulty, their condition will affect them in different ways.

To learn more about Maple Ridge Primary School please visit their website by clicking on the link below.

Thank you to everyone at Jenrick who took part in the car wash day, you have helped to make a huge difference!

FURTHER RESOURCES:

• Visit the Maple Ridge Primary School Website
• Charity and Wellbeing News at The Jenrick Group

A quick update regarding our annual charity photo competition, where the entries are vying for a spot on our Corporate Calendar - and more importantly, the final twelve photographers are given the opportunity to donate to the charity of their choice from a pool of £1,200.

Turns out that we’re receiving more and more entries via people finding us on Google, when they type in a search for Charity Photo Competitions.

Excellent stuff, keep the entries coming and remember the closing date for your photos is OCTOBER 1ST 2011.

For anyone who has not heard about the competition, here are some more details . . . .

Firstly, the reason our company does this is because we are committed to giving back to the community in as many ways possible. The annual calendar was another way that we could give back in an interesting and meaningful way. (more…)

Hi everyone!

We have some amazing news to share - the Maximise Potential Podcast, which has been created and sponsored by the Award-Winning Recruitment Group, Jenrick, has been nominated for the European Podcast of the Year, in the business category.

Please can you show you support by voting (and rating) to give us the opportunity to win these prestigous awards:

If you are new to this website and have not yet listened to the podcast, please read on . . . . (more…)

As you all know, Lee Burton of Jenrick Engineering won The Jenrick Experience, one of the more popular corporate wellbeing intiatives at Jenrick, as his lucky number was picked out of a hat.

Lee is a two-wheel petrolhead and has owned several motorbikes throughout the years. So he asked if he could go on a 3-day course / race experience where he will receive expert instructions and lessons before getting the opportunity to actually race on the circuits!

Lee Burton has just returned from the first part of his Jenrick Experience where he raced at Mallory Park and this is what he had to say about it:

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The voting poll has now closed for the ‘Helping Hand Initiative’, with voting reaching levels that we have never seen before.

In all, 892 votes were cast across the three worthy causes and we received in excess of 2,000 visits to the Jenrick Blog, since Tuesday. This clearly shows how passionate people have been about helping these excellent initiatives and how keen they have been to share the page links with others. Thank you all so much!

Congratulations go to Andy North, who won 50.9% of the votes, who will receive £1,000 from Jenrick to go towards his amazing fund raising efforts, which are explained in more detail below.

As part of the Jenrick Helping Hand Initiative, Kevin nominated Andy North who will now receive £1,000 from Jenrick to go towards his bid to raise £50,000 for Forces Children’s Trust and The Soldier’s Charity as he attempts to push his body to the absolute limit. (more…)

Hello everyone!

It is that time of year once again where we ask you all to make some very difficult decisions and choose one worthy cause to receive a minimum of £1,000 from Jenrick’s Helping Hand Initiative.

On this occasion we have three nominations which are highlighted below (just click on the links to read the full article): (more…)

“WHAT IS YOUR HELPING HAND IDEA / INITIATIVE”

Right, here goes, I have agreed to go and stay overnight in a haunted gaol in Derby, (yes a la “most haunted”) to raise money for a charity called Rainbows.

• www.rainbows.co.uk

I am one of 15 mothers from my son Rafe’s school who are taking part, the aim is to add to the pot of a year of fundraising for the Charity, we have a variety of fundraisers, ranging from people who are running marathons, walking the breath of the country and sitting in baths of baked beans (yes really) and this is my personal input (along with donating money personally and also being on the committee that is organizing all of this)

I have to stress that this might not sound a big deal but when you have a fear of the paranormal like mine, you would understand that this is quite a big deal!!

Honestly I would rather free fall from an airplane at 30,000 feet than take part in this, but this is the activity that needs the most people to do it, so doing it I am.

Still I suppose if I return possessed at least that will give reason to my general demeanor!! (more…)