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Gill Cooke Personnel continue to support the Loughborough University Annual Student and Graduate Business Plan Competition.  The 2011 event recognised 13 enterprising finalists whose commercial ventures are already creating a buzz in fields as diverse as decorative glass, eco car wash and women's football.  Around 80 guests gathered at Henry Ford College in June to hear the finalists pitch their businesses and to reveal the competition winners.

We are delighted to announce that the 2011 Gill Cooke Award has been won by Emma Britton, Decorative Glass Designer. 

Emma has created a range of exclusive decorative and functional glass panels for use in both domestic and commercial projects.  With contacts in leading companies within the glass industry, Emma is able to develop new approaches and techniques to glass design with expert support.  Her distinctive style of floral print can also be offered on a bespoke basis where colours and dimensions can be specified for any interior space, offering greater versatility.

Along with our cash prize, Emma also scooped a prize from the University, and plans to use the money to market her products to a wider audience.  Find out more about Emma on her website www.emmabritton.net

We launched our re-vamped website over the Spring Bank Holiday, and hope you are finding it "user-friendly"!  It has been designed by a dozen eggs, a company we first met as finalists in Loughborough University's Business Planning Competition, in a Dragon's Den style pitch.  Always keen to support local business, and to promote bright talent, we approached Fran Collins and Jo Lloyd, and following their response to our brief, asked them to re-design our website.  They have created a site that is both easy to negotiate and straight forward for us to administer.  The team were a pleasure to work with and we wish Fran and Jo continued success with their branding and advertising design partnership. 

Find out more at  www.adozeneggs.co.uk 

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 2006 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.

In 2009 we were subject to re-audit and once again passed with flying colours. We are delighted to continue flying the REC Audited kitemark.

For the fifth year running, we have made a Christmas donation to Dogs for the Disabled.

It is a life changing organisation – the dogs can be trained to open and close doors, answer the phone, help their owners dress and generally fetch and carry. As you can see, they’ll even load and unload the washing machine!

Gill Cooke Personnel has been a strong supporter of this scheme for many years, helping to raise funds for this worthy cause by simply collecting used postage stamps, which the charity can then sell.  Dogs for the Disabled is also one of the Telegraph's Charities of the Year 2010-11 (we did it first!).   

Since we set up in1989, our local Puppy Socialiser, Wendy Coley, has worked her magic on 28 puppies!  They have not all gone on to make the grade, but "socialising" these potential recruits is a vital part of their apprenticeship, to check temperament and trainability.

Want to help? Just collect any used stamps at home or work, pop them in a bag or envelope and bring them into our office in Frederick Street.