Jobs joy as historic pottery firm thrives
Dudson Ltd, a historic Stoke-on-Trent ceramic tableware company, is bucking the economic trend and creating new job opportunities for local unemployed people - recently recruiting six people.
Employment experts Pertemps People Development Group (PPDG) have been working alongside the family-owned company - the oldest in the UK hospitality tableware sector.
Many of the successful candidates have secured work at Dudson Ltd after being referred to PPDG by Jobcentre Plus under the Flexible New Deal (FND).
Chris Ashworth is one of the lucky six whose unemployment ordeal has ended thanks to PPDG and Dudson, Chris, aged 31, from Stoke, had been unemployed since November 2008 after losing his job as an assembler at JCB. He was referred to PPDG in September of this year and within two months had found employment with Dudson as a labourer.
Dudson is also taking clients on work placements and recently staged a tour of the company to give unemployed people an insight into the ceramics industry. The Work Focused Training initiative provides vocational training opportunities and employability skills to 18 to 24-year-olds.
The initiative is part of the Government's Backing Young Britain campaign, in partnership with the Future Jobs Fund and the Community Taskforce, which encourages organisations to provide young people with the opportunities they need to get into work.
Pictured (from left to right) are Christopher Podmore, from Dudson Ltd, Jane Holmes, from Human Resources at Dudson Ltd, and Pertemps People Development Group client Chris Ashworth.
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