Construction Taster Days in Lewisham
PiLON has recently helped our client, Apollo Group, with two separate construction skills “Taster Days” held at the Lewington Community Centre in Rotherhithe, South East London.
As part of an apprentice programme run by Apollo Group, the taster days offered young local people interested in a career in construction the opportunity to get hands on experience and learn basic plumbing, bricklaying, tiling, plastering, painting and groundworks skills from experienced PiLON tradesmen.
The first taster day was held on 27th April 2010 and had such positive feed-back that a second one was organized for 12th May in a much larger space than before.
On both days there were stands for each individual trade and the students were invited to practice the skills under instruction from PiLON key workers.
Our client organised the events, providing all the materials, and the PiLON team from our Lewisham project set up the stands to show the students how each trade works.
In total 58 students attended under the supervision of 8 PiLON key workers.