UK Skills

For media enquiries contact:

Kate Moloughney 
Interim PR Manager, UK Skills

Phone:  020 7612 9260
Email:    kate.moloughney@ukskills.org.uk.

At A Glance Guides

These guides give basic information about skills competitions that UK Skills is involved with.

For information on WorldSkills UK.

For information on how WorldSkills UK competitions relate to the international WorldSkills Competitions and WorldSkills London 2011 click here.

Photographs

Photographs from recent WorldSkills UK competitions can be accessed from photo galleries situated on the home page of this site.

We can also provide photos of people participating in a wide variety of skills competitions to accompany articles about skills. Requests should be made via the media contact given above.

Case Studies

We are currently developing our bank of case studies on WorldSkills UK competitors.

Below are case studies on Team UK competitors from the international WorldSkills Shizuoka 2007 competition, many of whom originally competed in regional and national skills competitions in the UK.

All the links below go off to the UK Skills website:

Jonathan Bourne – Bricklaying
Andrew Critchlow – ICT Network Support 
Ben Ingersent – Joinery
George Plant – Stonemasonry   
Harry Smith – Graphic Design  
Gary Tuddenham – Cabinet Making 
Jade Kidd - Beauty Therapy 
Donna Leach - Hairdressing 
Michael Westlake - Mechanical Engineering CADD 
Natalie Stanyer - Floristry 
Tim Lancaster - Landscape Gardening 
Philip Jackson - CNC Milling 
Stuart Greer - Welding 
Will Torrent - Confectionery  

 

 

Get involved in WorldSkills UK 09/10!

Contemporary Dance Gold Winners 2009

'A Time Upon Once' from Warrington Colleigate won Gold at the WorldSkills UK Contemporary Dance final held at Laban on 9th July 2009.

Cheographer: Jade Stubbings, 18
Dancers: Kadie Braide, 18, Nichol Howarth, 17, Rachel Hughes, 18