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Latest news from Swansea Bay Business Club - SBBC Events: Last chance to book to attend our October Lunch with Apprentice Winner Joseph Valente You're Hired .... to attend our October Lunch with Apprentice Winner Joseph Valente Thanks to sponsorship from GCS Training, the business training arm of Gower College Swansea, we are delighted to announce a slight change in our programme for the 2016 October lunch. Entrepreneur and winner of BBC’s ‘The Apprentice’, Joseph Valente, will join us as our guest speaker on Friday 21st October at the Marriott Hotel, Swansea for a three-course meal and an entertaining afternoon of networking with leading Swansea Bay businesses. Peterborough-born Valente, who is currently 26, started work as an apprentice at the age of 15 before going on to start his own plumbing, heating and electrical business, Impra Gas. He is the most recent winner of The Apprentice, receiving an investment of £250,000 from Lord Sugar following his performance on the show. ...

As Lord Alan Sugar launches his popular TV show The Apprentice, people living in Carmarthenshire are being reminded of our very own search to find a new apprentice. The deadline is looming for those who want to be in the running to land a two-year minimum paid construction apprenticeship with Llanelli-based building company Lloyd and Gravell Ltd. Next Steps is being run in partnership by Lloyd and Gravell, the council’s Property Services division, Coleg Sir Gar and Carmarthenshire Construction and Training Association Ltd (CCTAL). The competition is open to men and women, aged 16 or over and living in Carmarthenshire. Candidates will be put through six weeks of on-site construction training and will be set challenges with rewards and forfeits to test their ability to learn new skills. A winner will be announced at a prestigious ceremony at Parc Y Scarlets in August, and they will start their first day ‘on the job’ just days later. The apprenticeship is full-time and paid for a minimum ...

Kimberley Davis, one of the stars of The Apprentice television programme, is to talk at a small business network conference in Aberystwyth on Thursday 16th September. The event, which starts at 5.30pm in the International Politics department in Aberystwyth University, is hosted by the Sustainable Learning Networks Ireland and Wales and the Aberystwyth School of Management and Business and also features a case study on Halen Môn by David Lea-Wilson. Born in the Bronx in New York, Kimberley has a BA in music management and is also an accomplished musician. She has performed Mozart at Carnegie Hall and played the violin with the Essex County Chamber Orchestra. Kimberley’s entrepreneurial streak manifested itself at the age of five when she started her own lemonade ice-cream stand. Kimberley was the fifth person to be sacked on the Apprentice 5 series after the ‘pants man’ advertising campaign for a breakfast cereal. She took Philip Taylor and Lorraine Tighe back into the boardroom. Sir Al...