Modern Apprentice of the Year Award 2010

The Trades House of Glasgow was constituted 404 years ago as the Council of fourteen Craft Guilds.  Then and for over 200 years Trades House regulated apprenticeships into tradesmen and eventually masters of their chosen craft.

Now purely an organisation with charitable purposes Trades House was returning to its historic roots when it started the Trades House of Glasgow Modern Apprentice of the Year Award in 2006.  This award aims to encourage young and not so young people to become proficient in their chosen vocation.  It is important to encourage people to take up and continue the traditional trades, many of whom are represented by our fourteen Craft Incorporations established so long ago.  Winners and runners up in the last three years of our Awards have included a joiner - a Wright in Trades House terms - a night manager in a hotel - a Maltman - and a landscape gardener who could immediately join our Incorporation of Gardeners!  However there are many modern skills which are equally vital although not directly linked to our historic fourteen trades.  Such new skills are also supported by the Modern Apprenticeship system.  Apprentices in professions like pharmacy and administration have also featured among our award winners.  The competition is open to Modern Apprentices employed by firms throughout the G post code area.

Trades House acknowledges with grateful thanks the support we have received from Skills Development Scotland and Glasgow City Council.
 

The winner of the Modern Apprentice of the Year Award 2010 was Ronson Slater, apprentice joiner with City Building.

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Applications for next year's competition will be available from November 2010.