PILOT NEWS Issue No. 3Issued: June 2007

We strengthen our training provider Consortium to cover the Construction industry.

The arrangement applies from 1st June 2007.

Symphony's Chief Executive, Paul Winter, welcomed the opportunity to join Pilot's Consortium, as it expanded the profile of the company within the West Midlands opening up an area in which particularly hard to reach companies could benefit from the wage compensation offered by the government's national "Train to Gain" project and the experience of Symphony Assessment Limited to deliver construction related NVQ's.

"I will be looking to use the services of other companies within the consortium to expand the level of support that can be obtained by Symphony's existing customer base within the West Midlands region"

Confirming the agreement and its benefits, our Director, Andy Parker, explained

"We see this development of the PILOT training provider Consortium as providing two distinct advantages for West Midlands companies:

First, the agreement makes available, through Symphony, a broad range of effective training programmes which are eligible for support funding, to members of the construction industry. This applies specifically throughout the West Midlands, though opportunities outside the region also exist, if the appropriate funding criteria can be met. The additional range of available courses includes both Administration and Customer Service NVQs.

The second advantage is that it enables us to be able to more closely match the jobs of some employees within our client companies with NVQs which are more directly relevant to their actual work activities.

Symphony Assessment Limited is a company of similar size to ourselves, with 8 years experience of effective training within the construction industry. The Company has an excellent track record, particularly in delivering LSC-supported NVQ programmes. We believe that by working together, we will improve both our service to our client companies and our own internal operations. This is a win-win arrangement for both of our Companies as well as for our client organisations and course participants. "

Symphony Assessment specialises particularly in the following areas of construction training and assessment:

• Carpentry and Joinery Site work and Formwork
• Civil Engineering
• Concrete Repair
• General Maintainance
• Groundworking
• In-situ Flooring
• Kerb Laying
• Large Drainage
• Modular Pavement
• Project Management
• Roof Structures

The Company is a member of The Construction Plant Competence Scheme (CPCS), which operates as the setter of standards for training and recognising the Competency of Plant Operators for construction sites throughout the UK.

The following NVQ courses are available through Symphony:

• Forward Tipping Dumper: Wheeled, Tracked
• Excavator 180° Crawler and Wheeled, below 5 Metric Tonnes
• Excavator 180° Crawler and Wheeled, above 5 Metric Tonnes
• Rough Terrain Forklift/Masted Truck
• Telescopic Handler: Industrial Telescopic, Up to 9 metres, All sizes exc. 360ºSlew, All sizes inc. 360º Slew
• Wheeled Loading Shovel
• Tracked Loading Shovel
• Ride-on Road Roller
• Soil-Landfill Compactor
• Dump Truck Articulated Chassis Up to 15 tonnes All Sizes
• Dump Truck Rigid Chassis: Up to 15 tonnes, Up to 50 tonnes, All Sizes(wheeled), Tracked
• Excavator 360º (Below 10 tonnes) Tracked, Wheeled
• Excavator 360º (Above 10 tonnes) Tracked, Wheeled

The Company also runs a weekly short, 3 hours, health and safety course and test in Tamworth, Staffs., under the auspices of the CSCS. This is designed to meet the needs of those candidates who have to sit the CSCS / CPCS health and safety test.

Symphony has a very interesting website, www.nvqworld.com; where lots of extra information is available.

Enquirers for any construction industry training should contact Kelvin Goode at Symphony, for immediate and detailed information and service. Contact details are:

Tel No: 01827 69299
Fax No: 01827 313055
E-mail: symphonycentre@aol.com