NWAA Awards honours aerospace industry's youngsters

The achievements of young apprentices and trainees from the reion's aerospace and defence industry have been celebrated at the North West Aerospace Alliance's annual New Talent Awards.

Following fierce competition and entries from organisations across the North West and Isle of Man, the overall winner of the North West’s Best Aerospace & Defence Apprentice award, who also took home a £1,000 prize, was Daniel Hogg from BAE Systems Ltd.

Abigail Parkinson from Kaman UK carried off the “One to Watch” trophy, while BAE Systems scooped the Employer & Training Provider prize.

NWAA’s Business University Challenge aims to bring business apprentices, university and college students together to compete head-to-head in a series of challenges to test their negotiation, innovation, communication and presenting skills.

David Bailey, chief executive officer at NWAA, said: “The New Talent Awards has become a key event for the North West’s Aerospace and Defence Sector. It is important that we continue recognize and reward the achievements of the talent emerging in our industry. It is hugely important to our industry that we increase the numbers of talented young people into apprenticeships to plug the skills gap that threatens our ability to achieve the growth the aerospace market is experiencing."