It has been a really exciting time at Gill Cooke Personnel. The opportunity arose to take over the ground floor of our main premises heralding the move of our industrial division and training facility from 17 to 35 Frederick Street.

We are really reaping the benefits of all being under one roof and from the beginning of March we will be opening from
8.45am – 5.30pm Monday to Friday to provide more convenient hours for our clients and customers. We will also be open alternate Saturday mornings (9am – 12 noon) starting from 16 February.

Anne Brandon, our Administrator / Receptionist, has recently retired after more than seven years with Gill Cooke Personnel.

A familiar face to many of our temps and local job seekers, she will be much missed by us all. Anne is pictured here with Gill Cooke. We wish her a very happy retirement, and the energy and good health to achieve all her plans!

We would like to welcome Linda Deas and John Boggis to our team.

Linda has joined us on reception following Anne Brandon’s retirement, and brings extensive customer service and administrative experience to our front desk.

John worked for Gill Cooke Industrial previously and we are delighted to have him back!

For the third year running, we decided that, rather than send out expensive Christmas cards, we would donate the money to Dogs for the Disabled.

For many years Gill Cooke Personnel has been a strong supporter of the Dogs for the Disabled scheme. It is a life changing organization – they train dogs to open and close doors, answer the phone, help their owners dress and generally fetch and carry. They’ll even load and unload the washing machine! Over the years we have raised funds for this worthy cause by simply collecting used postage stamps, which the charity can then sell.

Pictured, donating a cheque for £200, are Caroline Nash, (General Manager - Gill Cooke Personnel) with 3 month old Quito, a golden retriever puppy, one of the organisation's newest recruits.

We continue to support this sponsorship scheme which is the largest of its type in the country and helps young sportsmen and women to reach their full potential in their chosen sport.

We have always been committed to the highest industry standards as determined by the REC, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, of which we are corporate members.

Organisations such as ours are governed by the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003. In March this year we underwent a voluntary audit by an independent firm of auditors to confirm our compliance with this and with the Confederation’s own Code of Professional Conduct. Our audit also included a TLWG (Gangmaster) Licensing element for our food industry clients.