 Welcome to Toffy TV, now a film was launched on July the 20th regarding apprenticeships at building, helping to build rather evidence new stadium at Bramleymore Dock, it was the learning foundry who launched the film and it showcased a once in a lifetime apprenticeship opportunity for Bramleymore stadium build, it was a lovely video, lovely film, featured Guderson Park, featured some Evertonians in there, as well a couple you're sure you will have recognised you were in there, as well as current apprentices as well who were a part of the learning foundry and today I'm delighted to be joined by the learning foundry's programmes manager Helen Walsch. Helen, good afternoon, how are you? I'm good, thank you, are you? Yes, very good, nice, it's still warm in it, we are having a warm summer which is good. Yes, it's very warm. It's good if you've got air conditioning, we haven't in the studio and I'm probably sure you haven't either where you are or maybe you have, I don't know. Can you tell us a little bit about the learning foundry's construction apprenticeships for Everton's new stadium at Bramleymore Dock? Yes, no worries, so the learning foundry have teamed up with Lango Roach to offer apprenticeships which will help play a key role in building the new football ground. Those apprenticeships are in steel fixing and in formwork, I don't know whether you're going to ask me what that means now. Yes, only if you can answer it. Steel fixing is where apprentices assemble and erect steel components that are required to strengthen concrete structures and formwork is a particular technique that used to form concrete structures so the two roles go together and that's not rehearsed at all. No, not at all, brilliant. I build an expert, it's what I like. So are they the two roles? Did you say there's 20 apprenticeships? The looking for potentially 10 steel fixes and 10 formworkers and what we've done is to give people the best opportunity at interview with Lango Roach is we're actually running a pre-employment programme so we've designed sort of a bespoke programme where we will give people the opportunity to do some health and safety training, get this yes, yes card, give them some insight into what those roles will involve, prep them for the interview so that when they are sat in front of Lango Roach they're just going to smash that interview and hopefully be taken on. Excellent. I mean that is really important because obviously people who are watching this who might be really interested in doing it and a little bit nervous about the interview process and being ready to go and sit in front of obviously prospective employees. If you've had some training and a bit of coaching before you go it's going to settle you down isn't it to go in and face those interviews. Absolutely and that's our aim is to put them, best place them to feel comfortable at that interview. Brilliant. So you can apply then, who's you're open to? I'm open to anybody over the age of 18. There's no upper age limit as long as you've got a good physical ability to carry out the roles because I'm sure that you can imagine they are very strenuous physical roles. I think when we talk about apprenticeships for me there's often a misconception that apprenticeships are only for 16 year olds, you've just come out of school and they're not, these are fantastic opportunities. They're paying somewhere in the region of £18,000 a year. There's great opportunity to progress up the ladder once they've finished that apprenticeship and build other amazing venues and stadiums and whatever else. So yeah, just fantastic opportunities. I was going to say that because obviously there is still a thing in your head isn't it apprenticeships? It's only for young people and maybe people who've come out of work who are interested in changing career wouldn't necessarily think that they could qualify for something like this. But as well as doing the apprenticeship and building the ground, if there is opportunities then to progress moving forward then it is potentially a whole new career to embark on isn't it? Yeah, yeah absolutely. And to be honest we're keen to speak to anybody that wants to even just undertake some of that pre-employment training regardless of applying for those roles. Now at the Lane of Foundry we are here, we want to make talent shine and that's our strap line so we're keen to speak to anybody interested in a career in construction. Fantastic, fantastic. The film I mentioned right at the start which fitted obviously local people, fitted Evertonians as well. And it was showcasing obviously the community and the culture that is in the city. Was that a conscious decision when making the film? To include Evertonians because obviously we're talking primarily about Bramley Morddoch which is going to be evidence in your stadium. But also using current apprentices as well to show that the ongoing work within the city I guess. Yeah absolutely. I think at the Lane of Foundry we've done loads of great work previously with the likes of the BBC, the Good Business Festival but we feel really proud of this project as it's such a local project. It's allowing people the chance to build an iconic football stadium and we wanted to use those real people and not actors to really demonstrate the opportunity to become part of history. In years to come those apprentices might be walking down the street with their family, their grandkids and kind of looking to say you know I was part of the team that built that so it was really important to have those real people in the film to kind of bring that to life. Yeah I think there is a really important point you just made there because it is about an opportunity for local people to play their part in a historical event really because it will be a new structure, a new football stadium that 50,000 odd people will be going to every other week. It's on the banks of the Royal Blue Masies we like to say. It's going to be evidence home for whatever, the next 100 odd years whatever so it is that opportunity to get involved in a historical project isn't it, right on the docks as well. Yeah absolutely, you can't wait to get involved. Yeah I mean it's going to be fantastic when it's down there and obviously it's such a great opportunity and it's an honour as well I guess for the Laneham Farnsley to be chosen as Lango Rocks, Laneham Partners if you like because Lango Rock is such a huge company and currently finishing the Royal Liverpool Hospital which was being finished about 5 years ago they took it on and they've got people swapping over now I need the currently filling that up so they are a huge, huge fame and it must be an honour for the Laneham Farnsley. Yeah it is and we're delighted and you know it's a go back to that thing around, it's offering local people those opportunities so you've got a national construction company coming in to build that stadium but we're giving the local people that live in the area the chance to get involved and have the jobs and work for Lango Rock so yeah we're delighted. Yeah that's brilliant as well because obviously them 20 people getting some decent money for building something and that spending the money in the city and they're all sloshes ran like that doesn't it, creating opportunities for more local people which they then spend that money backing our local economy whatever and everything sloshes ran I think massively important and there is a lot of work going on at that end anyway moving back towards the city centre so to play your part in that's going to be fantastic. Are there more open days for people to attend then and what is the closing day for this I guess? Yeah so we've got an open day on Wednesday next week and Wednesday afternoon one till five so anyone can come in and have a chat with us informally about the opportunity to play on the day if you want to and if you can't make the 10th just pick up the phone and give us a call and there's always somebody here that will open the door and have a chat with you about what we're doing at the moment so more info can be found on our website which is www.thelearnandfoundry.co.uk Check us out online give us a call we'd love to meet anyone that's interested in these vacancies. Yeah sounds fantastic obviously we'll put the link in the description as well for your website so people can know where to go and get access and have a read of it and see whether it is something that they want to get involved in but so Wednesday the 10th of August what time does that start Helen? One o'clock one till five at the city centre campus which is Renshaw Street within part of the old Lewis's building for those that don't remember Lewis's. What a place sadly no more but brilliant absolutely brilliant so it's a huge opportunity for local people to get involved in and maybe like I said before have a change of career why not go and give it a go at least go down and meet the people and get involved and see if it's for you. I want to say big thanks Helen for taking time out to have a chat with us. It's a fantastic project and brilliant because it's a local initiative as well for local people so it's I think it's brilliant. Thanks for having me. Pleasure absolutely pleasure. There you go if you're interested click on the link below in the description get over to check out The Learn and Foundry's website. Go to the open day which is on Wednesday the 10th of August that's one till five and so go down there and see what it's all about and you could be playing your part in building Evans new stadium. Thanks for watching. See you later.