A TRAINING provider has achieved a milestone after it saw its 100th apprentice find employment in the first six months since it began operating.

Boom Training, which delivers training throughout Hampshire, was established in April and offers bespoke, commercial training to help organisations improve their performance.

Based in Andersons Road, Southampton, the team is celebrating after Katie Gillespie, 16, of Shirley, took up work with her new employer, Business Choice Direct, as an apprentice.

Katie received a WestQuay shopping centre voucher for being the lucky young person who helped Boom Training reach this landmark.

Katie said: “I am really pleased with my apprenticeship. Boom Training have supported me a lot and I’m really looking forward to starting my apprenticeship at Business Choice Direct.”

Business Choice Direct was also only established this year and yet this is the second apprentice they have employed in the last few months.

Shirley Wolfe, Boom Training’s co-founder and director, said: “We are delighted to have reached this milestone in our growth so quickly and we are really happy to be able to say thank you to Business Choice Direct for their support. We are confident that Katie will be a terrific asset to their business.

“We’ve been lucky to work with a number of fantastic employers since we started. It would be great to be able to thank all of them in this way.”

Darren Box, managing director of Business Choice Direct, said: “We have been extremely impressed with the level of support and professionalism offered by Shirley and her team at Boom Training in sourcing candidates for Business Choice Direct.

“The need for our business not only to control costs but to source the right people to work in our company is imperative and Boom have delivered this for us.”

For more information about Boom Training call 023 8068 2060 or email hello@boomtrainingltd.co.uk.