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Acorn's partners
Acorn works in partnership with a wide range of organisations throughout Wales and the UK.
business
Acorn is dedicated to developing and maintaining relationships with business communities across Wales and the UK. We work closely with local chambers of commerce, business clubs and networking groups to share best practice and encourage partnership working. Current partnerships include:
- Wales Millennium Centre
- Cardiff Chamber of Commerce – Patron Member
- CBI (Confederation of British Industry) - Member
- IoD (Institute of Directors) - Member
- M4 Business Club - Member
- Newport Business Club - Member
- NGb2b (Newport & Gwent Chamber of Commerce) - Member
- Swansea Business Club - Member
- Swansea & West Wales Chamber of Commerce - Member
- Business West (combined Chamber of Commerce for Bristol, Bath and South Glos.) – Patron Member
- Halton Chamber of Commerce - Member
- Gloucester Chamber - Member
- North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce - Member
accreditations
Acorn has achieved the following accreditations.
- Investors in People
- British Standard ISO 9001:2000
- Recruitment & Employment Confederation - long-standing Member
- 'Link-up' Scheme – Rail & Civil
training
Acorn’s Learning & Development Division works in partnership for or delivers development programmes for the following organisations:
- Welsh Assembly Government (Dept. for Education, Lifelong Learning & Skills)
- ILM (Institute of Leadership & Management)
- EAL
- Goal
- City & Guilds National Qualifications
- IOB
sport & community
Acorn supports a number of sporting initiatives through community-based partnerships
- Cardiff Devils
- Caerleon Junior Football Club
- Maindy Corries Football Club, Cardiff - main Club Sponsor
- Merthyr Football Club
- Newport County Football Club - main Club Sponsor
- Newport Titans Rugby League - main Club Sponsor
- Swansea College Rugby Union - main Club Sponsor
- UWIC - main sponsor for UWIC Sport
education
Acorn work closely with Welsh universities, which leads to thousands of students in South Wales finding appropriate temporary and part-time work opportunities during term-time and in holdiay periods, as well as helping them to find permanet work following graduation. Acorn has particular relationships with UWIC (Cardiff) and the University of Wales, Newport..
charity
Acorn has enjoyed a long history of supporting charity and community initiatives for both local and national causes.
In April 2005, Acorn became the first company in Wales to become a Corporate Patron of the NSPCC; pledging to raise £100,000 or more for the NSPCC Full Stop Appeal.
Ghosts in Armour
As one of the largest employers in the Newport area, Acorn prides itself on supporting a large variety of sporting, charitable and cultural initiatives in the city.
We are therefore delighted to be a supporter of a unique and exciting artistic project to be launched in Newport on 6th September.
‘Ghosts in Armour' combines artists and collaborators with past employees and neighbours of the Whiteheads Steelworks site. It captures a unique reference of the current environment and the changing relationship of its heritage before it is lost to the regeneration currently undergoing within the City.
With accessibility to all being a core principle of the project, Ghosts will exist on both the physical and virtual realms. Alongside the exhibition that opens at The Riverfront in Newport on the 6th of September organisers will be launching a uniquely interactive virtual experience to further extend and enhance the artistic and social explorations of the project.
As a company with its roots in Newport, Acorn is proud to support an event paying tribute to an industry which has done so much for the development of the area and community.
We hope that our local clients, candidates and partners will be able to enjoy Ghosts in Armour Apparently with family and friends from 6th September to 17th October, 2008. For further details please visit www.ghostsinarmour.com.
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