HRH Princess Royal visits NHBC

I had the recent honour of being asked to photograph a very special event for NHBC; the official opening of their Cambridge Training Hub by HRH Princess Anne.

This is directly from NHBC’s article:
“Bricklaying, Site Supervisor and Surveying apprentices welcomed HRH The Princess Royal to officially open the National House Building Council’s (NHBC) new Apprenticeship Training Hub in Cambridge, which is delivering the next generation of skilled house builders in the East of England and closing the national skills gap and housing shortage.

The NHBC Training Hub, adjacent to the Histon Football Club, Impington, can train 80 apprentices all year round, enabling them to qualify in as little as 14 months. The facility, equipped with classrooms, welfare and catering facilities, provides apprentices with a realistic outdoor working environment and is initially focusing on bricklaying.

At today’s opening, HRH The Princess Royal met with bricklaying apprentices who demonstrated the various stages needed to build a house and emphasised the need to encourage more people into house building, with bricklaying being an excellent pathway into a rewarding and well-paid career.”