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His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge has visited the site of a new Nottinghamshire construction training facility to officially declare it open.
Located at an active quarry near Mansfield, the National Skills and Safety Park is an investment in developing construction careers from materials business Tarmac. It will provide first-class, practical training for emerging industry talent – including apprentices, graduates and those retraining from other sectors.
His Royal Highness met with a number of Tarmac's young apprentices to learn more about their roles and career ambitions, as well as getting some first hand experience on a cutting edge paving machine and one of the company's quarrying excavator simulators.
The Duke also joined a meeting with Chairs, CEOs and MDs of leading UK businesses meeting at Tarmac's National Skills and Safety Park to discuss joint opportunities for UK companies to support social mobility and to improve the options available to young people in all parts of British society.
Martin Riley, Tarmac's senior vice president who started his own career in construction as an apprentice, commented: "It was an honour to welcome His Royal Highness to our new facility which is already helping people beginning a career in construction and those already established in the sector to develop new skills.
"Major infrastructure programmes are the foundations on which the construction industry and its supply chain are built, providing exciting and rewarding career opportunities for people from all walks of life across the UK who can help shape the built environment of the future.
"We're extremely proud to launch this new facility."
The opening of the new facility forms part of Tarmac's ongoing commitment to upskilling young people – with over 300 of the company's existing staff currently undertaking its apprenticeship programmes. The business is proud to be a member of the 5% Club, an organisation committed to ensuring that in the next five years 5% of its memberships UK workforce are young people on training schemes.
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