Rewards for West Ferry staff

West Ferry, the Docklands-based newspaper printer, rewarded staff members who had achieved new training standards at a ceremony last week.

Simon Harris received chief executive Bill Wenmans award in recognition of outstanding achievement and performance in the firms NVQ programme. He was presented with an engraved Rotary watch.

Harris has also been awarded the UKs only City & Guilds Medal for Excellence for Machine Printing Level 2 this year, which will be presented in the summer.

West Ferry also handed out three awards for NVQ Level 3 Management, one for NVQ Level 4 Management, and eight D32/33 NVQ Assessor awards.

Another 10 staff received full NVQ Level 2 Machine Printing awards, 10 were given single unit NVQ Level 2, and one received the D34 NVQ Internal Verification award.

Wenman presented the awards with Dr Roy Millington, City & Guilds external verifier. The evening was co-ordinated by West Ferrys personnel department and NVQ centre.

Story by Gordon Carson