Apprentices Enjoy First Graduation Ceremony

As a family-owned business which employs almost 70 apprentices across its twenty locations, Swansway Motor Group decided it was about time they showed how important graduating apprentices to the business, by giving them a ceremony to remember, whilst showing the new recruits just what three years of hard work could achieve.

Swansway Group Director, Peter Smyth explained, “We hope that by combining our apprentice graduation with the new intake’s induction day, we’ve really inspired our new apprentices by letting them see just how far hard work and commitment can get you. As a family-owned business we’ve always been really keen on apprenticeships, indeed in our previous business we were heavily involved with the now forgotten YOP and YTS schemes (Youth Opportunities Programme and Youth Training Scheme). There is no doubt that learning a skill when you’re young gives you something for life and we’re extremely proud of our graduating class of 2018”.

The Swansway Graduates were given a certificate, and award and a goody bag by group Chairman, Michael Smyth. Those who graduated were Technicians from across the group, Jordan Edwards, Wrexham VW; Lewis Allen, Wrexham VW Van Centre; Maxim Roberts, Crewe Audi and Daniel Bradley, at Liverpool VW Van Centre.

Watching them receive their awards were the latest intake of apprentices, who were later given a Swansway induction in style by the whole Smyth family, with a full tour of the group’s Head Office facility thrown in for good measure.

Swansway operates sites from Birmingham in the South to Carlisle in the North, with a full range of apprenticeships on offer.