Joshua Galvin @ Central Training Celebrate OFSTED Success

2010 is an extra special year for Joshua Galvin @ Central Training, not only are Joshua Galvin @ Central Training due to celebrate 25 years of training success, they are proud to announce an outstanding Grade 2 in a recent Ofsted report, the second time in four years.
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CUTTING CREW SCOOP 2ND PLACE L’ORÉAL
PROFESSIONNEL COLOUR TROPHY 2010

Cutting Crew from North West London has taken 2nd place at the hairdressing industry’s most fashion forward and acclaimed award, the L’Oréal Professionnel Colour Trophy. Treatment : £5 CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

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The best in Essex - let the Champagne flow

CENTRAL HAIRDRESSING ACADEMY celebrated in style at The Cliffs Pavilion, Southend, Essex, after winning at the prestigious Essex Business Awards 2010.

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First Steps in Hair and Beauty

Start a Career in either Hair or Beauty.
Learn from award winning hairdressing professionals to start a career in either Hair & Beauty.

First Steps in Hair & Beauty will allow you to progress onto your chosen path.

You will learn:
CV and Cover Letter Writing, Customer Service, Interview Tips, Reception, Personal Presentation
Basic Hair services: Shampoo & Condition, Blow Dry Plaiting, Braiding and Hair Extensions
Basic Beauty skills in Hand and Nail Care, Creative Makeup and Eyebrow Shaping.
Joshua Galvin @ Central will help with Travel Expenses EMA - £30 a week.
Please CLICK HERE to view and/or download essential information.

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CTG - The UK's largest provider of Level 2 Hairdressing

[March 2010]
City & Guilds have announced Central Training Group is now the largest provider of Level 2 Hairdressing in the UK. Congratulations to everyone at Central Training Group for your continued hard work and support!

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Central Training Group announce £6,000 Winner

Central Training Group announced it’s £6,000 worth of training winner is Claire Jackson from Wickford, Essex.  Claire Jackson choose to use the £6,000 in Central Graphics Academy Level 2 Design Course.
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HAIRraising Appeal

Central Training Group are taking part in the John Freida 'Great Ormond Street Hospital' HAIRraising appeal.

Salons' can register at the link below:
http://www.gosh.org/hair-raising/taking-part/

Prizes include: Spend a week with Nicky Clarke at his Mayfair salon :
A day in the TIGI Studio assisting Anthony Mascolo : A day with Andrew Collinge : Win a day in-salon seminar with Tony Rizzo : Any one week course of the winner's choice at the Vidal Sassoon Academy.
And many more prizes.
CLICK HERE to view and/or download press release.

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Operation Christmas Child

Rolls of shiny Christmas paper and ribbons covered the floors at Central Training Group to decorate 29 presents for Operation Christmas Child.

The aim was to donate 20 presents but the ever-so generous bunch at Central Training Team added an extra 9 presents to the festive pile so more children would have a present to wake up to this Christmas morning.

Operation Christmas Child is an initiative of Samaritan’s Purse which has been running for 19 years.   The appeal distribute shoeboxes filled with gifts donated by schools, churches and companies to children in Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

 Last year, through Operation Christmas Child, over 1.2 million shoeboxes packed full of gifts and goodies were wrapped, packed and sent to children in disadvantaged situations by children and adults in the UK.

A massive ‘Thank you’ to Keryl Titmus who organised the Christmas donation on behalf of Central Training Group.

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Wellies to Work

Joshua Galvin @ Central took part in the first Wellies to Work day, organised by leading children’s charity Action Medical Research, on Friday 18 September and it was a ‘welly welly successful’ event.  Joshua Galvin @ Central raised money for the charity, which funds research into conditions affecting babies and children.  The first Wellies to Work day was supported by top TV presenter Davina McCall, who encouraged the whole nation to pull on their gumboots in the name of charity. 

 “I feel like I have been involved with Action Medical Research all my life as my grandparents supported the charity.  I am delighted at how successful Wellies to Work has been and how much money has been raised.  I’ve been lucky to have had three healthy children, but I know through friends how hard it is for women who have difficult pregnancies or premature babies.  The money raised will go to research to help find the answers to premature birth and treatments and cures for many other conditions,” explains Davina. 

Eight staff at Joshua Galvin @ Central  wore their wellies to work.  Staff really took up the challenge and wore wellies in a range of colours and styles and some even decorated their wellies. 

 

Commenting, Toby Tennant, Head of Relationship Fundraising at Action Medical Research said: “This is the first year of Wellies to Work and we are delighted at not only how much money has been raised, but how creative people have been in their fundraising efforts.  We hope to build on this success and make Wellies to Work an even bigger event next year.  Action Medical Research has made tremendous medical breakthroughs in the past sixty years, and this has been funded purely by fundraising activities, like Wellies to Work.” 

To see photos of the companies that took part, the winner of the Davina competition and to register for next year’s Wellies to Work, visit www.welliestowork.com.

 

Photographs of Davina and other celebrities wearing their wellies are available on the Wellies to Work website: www.welliestowork.com.   Please click on the following links for photographs:

 http://www.action.org.uk/files/davina_with_wellies_hi_res.jpg

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Preferred Training Salon

Are you a Preferred Training Salon?
The Preferred Training Salon is a scheme launched at the end of 2008 the Joshua Galvin @ Central Training Group carried out research to see what the general public and the industry expect from salons.  People want to feel assured they are getting the best by qualified and experienced stylists and this is down to employers providing excellent training to all of their staff, with this in mind, the Preferred Training Salon scheme was launched.
To become a Preferred Training Salon you must comply with the following criteria:
All of your salon trainees attend the Joshua Galvin Academy
Health & Safety is in accordance to the LSC guidelines
Your salon implement structured weekly training
Issue contracts of employment
Must have employed at least one qualified or working towards ‘A’ assessor
Apprentices wages to be given in conjunction with LSC apprenticeship guidelines.

BENEFITS INCLUDE:
• Free recruitment service for all junior staff
• Free listing on our Joshua Galvin @ Central Training website and ‘Central’ magazine
• Priority updates on all our training courses
• ‘Preferred Salon’ Awards presented at our annual graduation
• Joshua Galvin @ Central Preferred Training Salons
• To date the following salons have been awarded the Preferred Training Salon:
• CienteSanrizz370 Hair & BeautyAlleycatzKaizoClipsoJo Partridge

If your salon would like to find out more information or apply for the scheme please CLICK HERE to download and complete the application form which should be sent to:

Preferred Training Salon
Joshua Galvin @ Central Training, 519-523 Cambridge Heath Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9BU

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Double Celebrations at the Joshua Galvin Academy

Wella World audience, London, were treated to a double celebration of graduates collecting their certificates of achievement and singing Happy Birthday to the host of the evening Joshua Galvin.  Special guest Annie Humphreys co-hosted the graduation to a packed audience including founder of Alternative Hair and Sanrizz Tony Rizzo, Hob’s Paul Simbler, Junior Green, International Marketing Director of Vidal Sassoon Susie Much and Customer Business Development Key Account Manager for Wella Paul Oscroft.

Graduates from NVQ Hairdressing Level 1, 2 and School’s programmes entered the stage to collect their hard earned achievements along with Joshua Galvin @ Central training tutor Emma Crosbie for achieving her Assessor’s Award, Claire Boylan for Assessor of 2009 and salons; Kaizo, Sanrizz, Jo Partridge, 370 Hair & Beauty, Clipso and Alleycatz collected their ‘Preferred Training Salon’ certificates, a scheme launched last year by Joshua Galvin @ Central Training to recognise those salons who employ active NVQ Assessor’s and encourage and deliver training to all their junior staff enrolled at the Academy.  Special awards went out to Dedicated Learner  David Bartlett, Outstanding Achiever of the Year Samantha Langford and Student of the Year Charles Coppin.

Annie Humphreys stated “ I am honoured to do the speech this evening as I feel a sense of passion at the Joshua Galvin Academy as the training and celebrations are focused on the learner”

For more information about the graduation or Preferred Training Salon, please contact Terri on terriskeats@centraltraininggroup

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Hairdressing is NEET

Joshua Galvin @ Central Training teamed up with BTEG (Black Training & Enterprise Group) over the summer, attending a series of NEET events across the boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth to promote Hairdressing Apprenticeships and Training opportunities available to Black and Minority ethnics.
Being the only Hairdressing provider amongst Construction, Electricians, Plumbing colleges, helped brighten up the audiences with motivated speeches detailing how Apprenticeships are the key to a successful future. 
“Having a trade under your belt will set you up for life, you can go anywhere in the world and never be out of pocket” Joshua Galvin.
In response to the Academy attending each event, Emma Foxall Apprenticeships for ME Coordinator stated the following:
“I just wanted to say a large and final THANK YOU for all of your support over the last few months. I’ve so enjoyed meeting you and finding out about your Apprenticeships. Joshua, your talks have livened up all of the events and anyone would be mad not to want to do a hairdressing Apprenticeship after hearing you speak! I hope that the events have been useful for you too and that you have some applicants as a result of them”
For further information about  Hairdressing  Apprenticeship or motivational speakers at NEET events, please call our Recruitment Team on: 020 7613 4455

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Ciente Preferred
Joshua Galvin @ Central has awarded its first Preferred Training Salon to Ciente, in Berkhamsted, owned by Trisha Buller. The scheme recognises salons that employ qualified and experienced stylists by providing high quality services and training for all their staff.
Salon Focus : (November/December 2009)

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From the September 2009 issue of Salon Business:

A look taken from the first collection by two talented NVQ trainers, Emma Crosbie and Holly Barker, part of the new Artistic team at the Joshua Galvin @ Central Art Team, London. "As this was our first collection, we wanted to showcase a contrast of texture and sleek styles that can be worn every day. Colour saw platinum blonde with this season's rich hazelnut and autumn orange tones, " say Emma and Holly.
Make-up by Michelle Court and photography by Billy Moore.

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The Big Debate

A feature from The Stylist magazine in which deBarry talks to Joshua Galvin about training.

To read this informative article in PDF format:
click here for pages 1 and 2
click here for page 3

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Your Game Winners

Joshua Galvin @ Central Training recently took part in exhibiting at London’s 2009 Your Game event.  Your Game is a partnership between the BBC and Comic Relief.  It is a nationwide series of sport and music festivals aimed at 16-25 year-olds and the community groups they are involved with.   The project is about offering access to funding and training opportunities as well as a range of sport, music and media activities.

The Joshua Galvin @ Central Team really enjoyed taking part in the event and offered free hair services including braiding and corn rows.  Anyone who enquired about Hairdressing Apprenticeships were automatically entered into a free prize draw.
Winners details are as follows:

1st Prize : Hair colour, cut and blow dry and goodie bag
Shakira Chambers from Our Lady’s Convent

Runner up Prize: Hair cut, Blow dry and goodie bag
Michael Grifferty from Uxbridge College

Winners will be contacted to claim their prizes.

Please click on the links below for more information about Your Game

Your Game Event London
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/your_game/8214281.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/your_game/8214441.stm

http://www.studio-output.com/YourGame/yg09_opps_web.jpg

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Joshua Galvin @ Central Academy : Summer Collection

The new Artisitc team from the Joshua Galvin @ Central Academy  Emma Crosbie and Holly Barker were trained at Sassoon’s and are now NVQ trainers at the Academy.
‘As this was the first Joshua Galvin @ Central Academy collection, we wanted to showcase a contrast of textured and sleek styles that can be worn everyday.  Colour saw platinum blonde with this season’s rich hazelnut and autumnal orange tones’. You can read an interview with Emma and Holly about the collection and the photo shoot by clicking here and you can see some stunning images from the collection in our gallery by clicking here.

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Creative talent finds perfect forum

THE amazing creativity and imagination shown by a group of young stylists found the perfect forum at this year’s Central Joshua Galvin Photographic Hairdressing Awards.
With categories including Brit Pop and Burlesque, the work was heavily influenced by music, street fashion and the club scene. This led to some of the most creative work ever produced by the competition which is now into it’s sixth year.
Almost 600 entries were received this year and 35 finalists got the chance to recreate their look for a finals show held at the Wella World Studio in London.
Jasmin Skaife, Head of Hairdressing for Joshua Galvin, was a member of the judging panel and felt the standard of work had never been so high.
She said: “I think the categories this year really suited the young entrants and they were inspired by influences they really understood and respected. As a result the styles were amazingly diverse while the make-up and overall styling produced a superb total look in many cases.”
All finalists received a trophy, professional scissors, £100 worth of Wella vouchers and mounted pictures showing the look they created. In addition, overall category winners received a pair of thinning scissors and a special trophy.
Winners of the popular Burlesque category, JAVA for Hair from Chelmsford in Essex, also received a special extra gift from competition sponsors, Wella, of two tickets to the Trend Vision final to be held later this year.

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Central to Inspiration

Staff at Central Training Group, London and Essex, were recently treated with a surprise guest at their Summer Conference - Paralympics 800 metres gold medallist at the 2004 Athens' Games, Danny Crates. Danny inspired delegates with a two-hour talk on how overcame disability to achieve his dreams. Said Central Training Group Managing Director, Andy Wright: "This has been the best conference we have ever had - I have never seen a speaker motivate staff as well as Danny. [Hairdressers Journal, 26 June to 2 July 09]

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Sir Alan Sugar, 'you're hired!'

Secretaries of State Ed Balls (DCSF) and John Denham (DIUS) held an informal discussion, with a handful of respected apprentices’ employers and training providers.
This was an opportunity to explain to the ministers how Apprenticeships impact on their day to day work.
Billy Moore and Sue Irons from Central Hairdressing Academy along with Gabby Harris from Headlines Hairdressing, were there to speak on behalf of the Hairdressing industry.
There was a real buzz in the air when the ministers announced a special guest would be joining us at each table to listen to what we had to say and answer any questions we had.
The special guest was none other than Sir Alan Sugar.
Billy Moore said “Sir Alan has been employed as the new face of Apprenticeships, he has always been a hero of mine and it was great to sit around a table and discuss the business of apprentices with him.
The morning was a great insight into the future of apprentices and the future is a bright one.”
Sir Alan you’re definitely hired.

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