CATCH are proud to sponsor and support the following event:

Location: The National Golf Centre, The Broadway, Woodhall Spa, LN10 6PU
Date: Wednesday 16 March 2022
Time: 9:30am – 4:00pm

Explore issues, barriers and solutions to setting up a locally fair, transparent market to trade in credits for biodiversity, carbon and water within Greater Lincolnshire.

Do you want to buy in biodiversity, carbon or water credits? Do you have land where you can deliver new projects for trading these credits? Can you act as a facilitator in the process? Then this conference is for you.

Green Investment in Greater Lincolnshire (GIGL) is a project under the Government’s Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund (NEIRF) managed by the Environment Agency. Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, on behalf a wider partnership of organisations and interests across Greater Lincolnshire, applied for the fund. This conference is the start of the process to establish a consistent, fair, equitable and transparent market within Greater Lincolnshire that benefits people and wildlife.

We will establish with our Catchment Partnerships and others, a pipeline of projects held on registries of suppliers of biodiversity, carbon and water credits. We will develop the Special Purpose Vehicle with guidance and tools to support our local planning authorities and developers to ensure the process is simple and effective while making space for nature across our fabulous county.

Further details – https://www.lincstrust.org.uk/events/2022-03-16-green-investment-greater-lincolnshire-conference

We are starting to recruit our second cohort of apprentices, ready to commence their careers September 2022.

We are hosting an Apprenticeship Open Event on Friday 25th February in our delivery center at Kirklees College, Process Manufacturing Centre, Huddersfield, HD1 6AG.

The event will be an opportunity to hear a presentation from Lisa Kennedy, CATCH Apprenticeship Delivery Manager and our Lead process trainer Debbie Lumb, followed by a tour of the PMC with Paul Singh, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering from The University of Huddersfield.

The event will be advertised to all Yr 11,12 and 13 across Kirklees, Calderdale, Bradford, Leeds, Barnsley and Wakefield through the careers services, as well as social media channels. If you are interested to attend this event as an employer with a careers stand, please contact Debbie – Debbie.lumb@catchuk.org or if you would like to attend as a learner please click here to register your place.

The CATCH award for excellence is a scheme for recognising when one of our employees really goes above and beyond. Yasmin Smith, Trainee Course Coordinator,  was nominated and then subsequently presented with the award this week.

Yasmin was nominated by colleague Jess Bocock and said “Yasmin has consistently taken on new challenges and responsibilities within her role since starting 7-8 months ago. In such a short space of time, she has achieved so much for the business. She has allowed the production levels to increase, staff members to take holidays with ease knowing their roles are covered with accuracy and has never complained about a job she has been asked to do. No challenge is too much for her and considering she didn’t have any administration experience.   She has a very positive impact on the team and always comes to work with a smile on her face!”

On receipt of her award, Yasmin commented, “I was really shocked to receive this; I wasn’t expecting it at all. I haven’t been here long, but I really love my job already and everyone I work with is so supportive. I am very grateful to receive this award and I am pleased people think I’m doing a good job”.

Congratulations Yasmin from all at CATCH!

The East Coast Cluster has been successful in securing track 1 status in the BEIS cluster sequencing programme along with North West Cluster HyNet, and the Scottish Cluster in reserve. The East Coast Cluster is a collaboration between Zero Carbon Humber, Net Zero Teesside and the Northern Endurance Partnership and aims to create and support an average of 25,000 jobs per year between 2023 and 2050, with approximately 41,000 jobs at the project’s peak in 2026. These skilled jobs in exciting new industries, including industrial carbon capture, low-carbon hydrogen production, negative emissions power, and power with carbon capture, can play an important part of levelling up in the UK.

David Talbot, CEO CATCH said “The Humber region has been at the forefront of the Government’s NetZero ambition, particularly in the last few years. The announcement cements that vision, as leading industrial emitters work together to propel the UK to a low carbon future. For the last 12 months CATCH has been working with the HEY Lep and 8 industry partners to produce a strategic roadmap that will provide confidence to the UK Government, encompassing how industrial emissions will change over time and provide the region’s projects and industry with a well-defined, optimal route to achieving true net-zero in 2040.  In addition to the work CATCH is currently undertaking on the Humber Industrial Cluster Plan, I am also committing CATCH to continue to support all the Humber’s exciting deployment projects, our Members, and local industry by providing a lasting legacy to The Humber Industrial Cluster Plan work through to 2040 and beyond.

Interconnection with hydrogen production facilities, salt cavern storage, and neighbouring hydrogen schemes will enhance the East Coast Hydrogen Network System . The programme will stimulate investment of  ~£1bn in the re-purposing and development of new hydrogen infrastructure, supporting 1000 jobs, and enabling over 5GW of publicly announced hydrogen production projects to export their hydrogen across the region to 4 million homes and 40,000 larger users of gas.

In line with the UK Government’s Hydrogen Strategy, that means that East Coast Hydrogen could deliver 25% of the targeted investment, 10% of the targeted jobs and 100% of the 5GW production target.

If you missed the East Coast Hydrogen Launch event, or wish to watch again, here is link to the full webinar recording and short project video

CATCH was pleased to be the host site for a meeting of the National Infrastructure Commission on 23 September, where they launched their leveling up recommendations along with North East Lincolnshire Council.  After the meeting the Commissioners were given a tour of the CATCH site.

David Talbot, CEO of CATCH, said “these are exciting times for the Humber region, with huge scale industrial decarbonisation projects in planning, the Freeport status and offshore wind energy all supporting the future of the Energy Estuary.  Coupled with these ‘once in a generation’ opportunities has been the great work undertaken by North East Lincolnshire Council to successfully negotiate several development funding streams including the Greater Grimsby Town Deal, and today has been an opportunity to showcase the region.  I was delighted that the Commissioners were able to tour the CATCH site to see the unique capability in industry led skills on offer.”

To read more about the visit please click here. 

The ConCom Scheme is led by a committee of industrial client members, which ensures that the scheme is relevant and fit for purpose in today’s industrial environment.

The team sat down with Committee member Desmond Wright, engineering manager, Lenzing Fibers, and asked how important was the ConCom scheme to him.

I’ve worked at Lenzing Fibers since 1992, starting as a Mechanical Technician before progressing to Maintenance Team Leader, Reliability Team Leader, Mechanical Engineer through to my current position of Engineering Manager.

How important is the Concom Scheme to you?

I first starting attending the Concom client/contractor meetings in early 2000 as a temporary stand-in for my Engineering Manager at the time who had been instrumental in setting up the Concom scheme.

Lenzing’s number one priority is to ensure all our employees who work on the site do so in a safe manner by ensuring we follow all current regulations, guidelines, and best practices.   This same principle is applied to all contractors who work on the Lenzing site therefore we need a process that delivers on our expectations.  Concom has been the chosen process to achieve this for over 20 years.

I have seen a dramatic improvement over the years in the way safety and competence is viewed by the HSE and in return by both clients and contractors.  Concom is a scheme recognised by the HSE.  It is proactive in its outlook, has a proven audit process, and provides a forum for open discussions between clients and contractors to ensure high safety and competence standards are embedded into their process.

Thornton and Ross based in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire is the latest organisation to join the CATCH membership scheme.  The company, founded in 1922 are one of the UK’s fastest-growing, leading producers of household pharmaceutical products, and own some of the country’s most loved brands such as Covonia^®, Hedrin^®, Cetraben^® as well as the leading disinfectant Zoflora^®. Many people in the UK will have a product from Thornton & Ross somewhere at home. They are also a trusted and reliable provider of prescription products, including emollients bone health products and generics, to the NHS with almost 100 years’ heritage behind them.

Matt Robinson, HR Business Partner said “We’re really excited to be formally joining CATCH as their latest member. Working alongside other fantastic Yorkshire based organisations will add real benefit to all our operations and help us develop strong links with link minded HR professionals”.

We look forward to working with Matt and his colleagues and welcoming them to our regional networks and events.

To find out more visit https://www.thorntonross.com/