News
10th February
City & Guilds
The end of 2010 saw two cohorts of learners achieving Level 1 award in Employability and Personal Development with a success rate of 100%. Our External Verifier report described the quality of the learner work as amongst the best seen, the quality of training and assessment as excellent and there was clear evidence of staff going ‘an extra mile‘ in supporting the learners.
Following this very positive report we ran Level 2 award in Employability and Personal Development for our Team Leaders in January 2011 with the focus on developing their role and responsibilities. We are using this award as the springboard for further staff development. Our key focus is on continuing to offer support and training to learners and staff which is fundamental to our Mission Statement and vision.
We achieved further success by being granted full approval to run the new Training, Assessment and Quality Assurance (TAQA) level 3 and 4 awards for assessors and verifiers. This will enable us to offer both in house and external training opportunities for assessors.
Our plans include developing further awards with City & Guilds including vocational qualifications. We appreciate greatly the continuing support and guidance we receive from City & Guilds Eastern Region in particular from the Business Manager and External Verifier.
17th January 2011
New Board Member
We are delighted to announce the return of Jacqui Starling to the team as a full time strategic member who brings a wealth of firsthand experience across the public, private, and third sectors. Jacqui is in the role as Commercial Director.
20th July 2010
Alexandra Cosgrove, CEO, has been elected to the Fellowship of the RSA. Alex is looking forward to being part of this unique and dynamic organisation giving her access to new networks working towards finding innovative practical solutions to the most pressing social issues affecting our communities today. Alex was proud to be invited to be a Fellow of such an innovative and multi-disciplinary organisation whose aims are aligned to those of the Grow Organisation in seeking out new initiatives to deliver progress to our communities.
7th July 2010
We are delighted to announce we are now a fully approved centre for City & Guilds. We would like to thank all our staff and those at City &Guilds in particular Dr Phillip Kirby (Grow) and Carole Bland (C&G) for their expert knowledge and outstanding success in gaining this status in record time.
11th June 2010
‘The Grow Organisation is exhibiting at The Public Procurement Show on the 15th -16th June 2010 at ExCeL, London. We are delighted to be part of the first ever Social Firms UK Village and can be found in the village on stand C15. We look forward to seeing you there.’
9th June 2010
Mow and Grow was announced overall winner in the growth category 2009-2010 RBS SE100 Index of social businesses at an awards ceremony at the Garden Museum in Lambeth, London earlier tonight.
9th June 2010
'Following our previous announcement regarding Trevor Lynn’s suspension and subsequent resignation, the board and management wish to make clear that Trevor Lynn has no further role or relationship with the group or any of its franchisees. Any statement contrary by any individual or organisation, whether previously associated with the group or not, is untrue and may be the subject of legal action’.