Launching Land Based Apprenticeships Across the UK

It’s been a busy start of term for Plumpton College, with the addition of record numbers of new students and a warm welcome for new members of staff including Hamish Dow and Annie Bradford, who join the Business Development team as Plumpton continues to expand its faculty of industry experts and focus on helping local business secure the best workforce. 

Hamish joins the commercial team as business development specialist, with responsibility for increasing a new range of apprenticeships in agriculture, viticulture and land based service engineering. 

Hamish was previously at Hadlow College in Kent, where he was involved in commercial field sales, who's additional 35 years of experience in large enterprise sales in the telecoms sector gives Hamish an exceptional range of experience. His role will expand the Plumpton brand as a business and will give valuable sales insight to each department and students studying with us. 

To add to Plumpton’s new field sales recruits, Annie Bradford who studied at Sussex University joins the commercial team as field sales executive. Annie has a background working in a number of Further Education Colleges in the South East in both curriculum teaching and business support roles.  At Plumpton, her role includes responsibility for developing and building business relationships in animal care, veterinary nursing, bakery, butchery and fishmonger apprenticeships. 

Plumpton continues to further its efforts to give students industry experience and insight. If you’re a local business looking to expand your workforce with an apprentice, Hamish and Annie would be delighted to talk you through the options available, get in contact now.