Manager of North West Regional College’s Careers Academy Finneen Bradley, NWRC student Marvin Mulhern and Ciara King, Training and Personnel Manager with Errigal Contracts, launch the Education to Employability Festival, (E2E), a joint partnership between NWRC and Derry and Strabane District Council. The free community event will take place at Ebrington Square, Derry on May 26. (Picture by Martin McKeown)
THE countdown is underway for the first ever Education to Employability Festival which will be held at Ebrington Square this Friday, May 26.
More than 100 exhibitors have booked to take part in this FREE event, a partnership delivery by North West Regional College with Derry City and Strabane District Council, which is designed to inspire local people in the North West to make the connection from Education to Employability.
Beginning at 1 p.m., the festival, based across three marquees, will be brimming full of interactive showcases and exhibitions from a range of leading learning and industry organisations.
In a jam packed programme of events, there’ll be education advice available, career opportunities, fun interactive activities, live music, culinary demonstrations and much more.
Errigal Contracts based in Derry and Dungiven will be one of the many companies exhibiting offering real job opportunities on the day.
The company is currently partnering with North West Regional College bringing 16 apprenticeships this September. Come alone on the day and find out more.
Local employer Western Health and Social Care Trust will run seven different exhibitions on Friday, showcasing careers ranging from pharmacy to social work, and giving advice on the wide range of careers and job opportunities available locally in the health and social care sector.
W5 will be on site with a Minecraft demonstration, the local fire service will carry out an emergency demonstration and Ulster University will be exhibiting their interactive robot.
Other exhibitors include: AE Global; Airporter; Allstate; Apex Housing; ATI Accounting Technician Ireland; AXA; Barclays Life Skills; Blast Bootcamp; Brunswick Moviebowl; Business in the Community; CAFRE; Careers Advisors DfE; Career Ready; Cedar Foundation; Connected Health; Connected Talent; Coastal Core Training; Craft Training; Danske Bank; Derry City and Strabane District Council; Disability Action; Domiciliary Care (Strabane District); Down Syndrome Trust; DW Sports; E&I Engineering; Enterprise NI; Errigal Contracts; Everglades Hotel; FABLAB; Fire Service and PSNI; Fleming Agri; Foyle International; Foyleside; Garvan O’Doherty Group; Go For It; Sollus Dancers; Indigo Life Coaching; Inner City Trust; Irish Food and Heritage Project with Emmett McCourt; Try Judo with K McNaught & S Gallagher; Julia Carson; La Dolce Via; Lifestyle Sports; LYIT; Maiden City Cars; Mindset; McDonalds; Mc Mahon Builders; MPA Recruitment; NSPCC; Nu Print; OCS Catering; Ollies; PSNI; PCSP; Princes Trust Enterprise; Princes Trust Social Hub; Purple Bricks; Randox; Redcastle Hotel; Routledge Recruitment; Sandy Arthur; Scattr; Scouts; Seagate;; SEC Connections; Sentinus Roadshow Robotics; STEM Aware; STEM Minecraft; Tesco; The Surf Project; UK Worldskills; Ulster University; USEL; W5; Walled City Brewery; WHSCT – Pharmacy; WHSCT – Social Work; WHSCT- Support Services; WHSCT – IPCC; WHSCT – Estates Medical; WHSCT – WEST; WHSCT – HR; Young Farmers; Youth Service; Young Enterprise; Zenith Learning.
There will also be a number of stands from North West Regional College including; Admissions; Art; Business; Business Support Centre; Careers Academy; Computing; Construction; Crafts; Early Years; Engineering; Hair and Beauty; Health; Hospitality; HR Services; International Office; Learning Link; Media; Music/Performing Arts; Science; Skill Build; Sport; Student Finance; Maths Cube; and KickStart IT
The festival takes place on Friday, May 26 from 1-6 p.m. at Ebrington Square.
Further details on the event are available from the E2E Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/E2Efestival/
