Summer seemingly arrived once more on Thursday and it was the perfect afternoon for a celebration of the apprentices of Rochdale Training.

Whilst NEMA didn't have any of our own apprentices on the short list this year, the brother of our former Outstanding Apprentice of the Year winner was up for an award and, as a company, we also sponsored the Apprentice of the Year Level 4 award, so we turned up to show our support.

With that in mind Dean Evans had the pleasure of presenting the Level 4 award, whilst Andrew Wilding, being presiding chairman of RTA got to deliver a speech along with former mayor Janet Emsley and RTA's Rachel Yates to set the scene for the evening.

As a company, we have a long standing and successful history with apprenticeships and we love to be able to celebrate success through education, so it was encouraging to see what is going on in and around Rochdale and the impacts some of these determined, talented people are making in their own places of education and places of work!