Merry Christmas

Well here we are...Thursday 20th December, our last day in the office until 3rd January 2013 - woohoo :0)

It has been a fantastic year for us, 800 trainees, delegate visits, Jo and Suad joining the TTPL team and of course Nadine joining as our Development Director, we also sadly said goodbye to Sue who retired this month, we all wish her well. We have laughed, cried, screamed and generally had a pretty good time, we have welcomed trainees, partners and visitors, and we have travelled around the UK and Europe promoting Torbay & South Devon. Who knows what 2013 will bring!

Next year The Training Partnership becomes an adult - 18 years old, so I'm sure there will be celebrations attached to that.

As I sit here and look back over 2012 I realise what an amazing place The Training Partnership is...it is said that a man (or woman) that enjoys what they do will never work a day in their lives - this is particularly true here. Everyone here really enjoys what we do, changing lives - day in day out. 

Personally, I would like to thank the TTPL team for making work fun, for being supportive and for just being there. The best group of ladies anyone could ever hope to work with.

The temptation is to fill this blog with facts and pictures but I will not...

I will simply wish you all  

 Merry Christmas 

and a 

Happy and Healthy New Year 

from all of us at 

The Training Partnership Ltd

...and thank you for your support during the past 12 months

A very special event!

Wow.... what can I say, last week we welcomed partner organisations from all over Europe to join us here in 'sunny' Torbay. We had arranged for them all to stay at The Imperial and then spent Thursday presenting what it is about TTPL and Torbay that seems to be so appealing to trainees from across the EU. The Herald had this to say "two day thank you"

Nadine began by running through our plans, Jackie Bufton and Bill Callaghan spoke about the qualifications we are now able to offer - then a spot of lunch! After that it was down to yours truly to tell everyone about how our work placement programmes work. We also had the benefit of Adam Mackey and Frank Sobey talking about how the placements work for them and their businesses - inspiring stuff.

At about 4 o'clock we were delighted to host a fantastic champagne reception, again at The Imperial - attended by all of the TTPL team, our European guests from France, Spain, Belgium, Italy and Germany and a great cross section of local employers and business leaders - words cannot really do this event justice! Huge thanks to The Imperial (especially Jenny Shipton), to our partners for travelling a great distance, just before Christmas, to be with us, to our speakers - Adam and Frank, to Mark Whittaker and Adrian Sheene for speaking at the reception - and of course all the guests who joined us and made the whole event such a pleasure to attend... whoops! I nearly forgot!!! A huge thank you to our Jayne, without whom none of this would have been possible! 
You can see more pictures on our Facebook page here TTPL 2012 Event

Some would think that this would have been enough but no...on the Friday we all (TTPL and our guests) descended on The Linny at Coffinswell for an amazing Christmas lunch - fantastic food, great service and a truly wonderful location!

This is not our 'Christmas Blog but I will take this opportunity to say to you all
Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year