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Budget Van Insurance plug UK plumbing gap with £5k Plumbing Competition
September 2008Budget Van Insurance has launched a competition with the Daily Mirror to offer someone the chance to win £5k worth of training, to become a plumber, absolutely free!!
The prize is an intensive eight week non-residential plumbing course, provided through OLCI Construction Training, which leads to a City and Guilds certificate 6129 level two certificate upon successful completion of the course. The competition closes on 24th October and the winner will be announced on or before the 20th November.
Recent research by Budget Van Insurance shows that plumbers are the tradespeople most in demand by the UK public (46 per cent), with some estimates claiming as many as 30,000 new plumbers are needed to fill the gap.
Mnveer Arkan, Head of Marketing, Budget Van Insurance says:
"We have decided to help someone train as a plumber not only to help towards the national shortage but to also give someone the chance to embark on a highly lucrative career."
So, whether you're a school leaver, just about to start your first job or maybe you just fancy a change, this could be just the opportunity you've been looking for. It’s a great time to reassess your career options in the run-up to Christmas and couldn’t be easier to enter. For your chance to win this great prize visit www.budgetvaninsurance.com for more details and access to the online entry form.
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Roland Cross/Lizzie Hannaway
Broadgate
020 7726 6111
Note to editors:
The BGL Group
The BGL Group, formerly known as Budget Group of Companies (the Group) was founded in 1992 and has grown to become one of the UK’s largest personal lines insurance intermediaries, through a combination of organic growth and a series of major strategic acquisitions (the last major acquisition was five years ago).
The Group now arranges and administers insurance for 1.9 million customers. It operates major contact centre operations (Fusion) in Peterborough, Coventry, Sunderland, Peterlee in the UK, and Cape Town, South Africa. The Group currently employs 2,255 people with its head office in Peterborough.
As an intermediary, the Group is able to access a wide range of underwriters, making it highly competitive in the marketplace, offering core products such as motor, home, commercial vehicle and motorcycle insurance. The Group also offers a wide range of supplementary products, which include breakdown cover, legal protection, travel insurance, life assurance, pet insurance and mortgage payment protection insurance.
In 2006 the Group received ‘Intermediary of the Year’ (Insurance Age UK Broker Awards) for its outstanding contribution to the insurance industry. In April 2007, the Sunday Times’ PricewaterhouseCoopers Profit Track 100 rankings selected the Group as ‘one to watch’. And in October 2007 the Group was ranked 229th in the Sunday Times HSBC Top Track 250 of Britain’s 250 biggest mid-market private companies by latest sales.
Budget Van insurance searches a panel of 12 insurers to offer competitively priced van insurance, in addition to exceptional product benefits. In 2006 Budget Van launched various innovative marketing campaigns including ‘it’s a van man thing’ and ‘flying traffic wardens’, which resulted in it being awarded ‘Marketing Campaign of The Year 2006’ (Insurance Times Awards). More recently Budget Van and News of the World have joined forces to produce the Dream Dates Calendar 2008.
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