Contractor announces apprentice of the year

06 November, 2008

Goodmarriott & Hursthouse’s apprentice of the year for 2008 is Matt Baker (right), a 19-year-old apprentice from Bramcote, Nottingham. He is the fourteenth apprentice for the scheme, which was set up in memory of a former apprentice electrician who died in a holiday accident in 1994. Managing director Darron Littlehales (left) says of Matt that he is one of a number of highly talented youngsters in this year’s group. ‘It is all about personal achievement, and in Matt we have a worthy winner who has proved his mettle to all his supervisors and mentor and to the people he has worked alongside in the past three years.’

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