Extra Mile Training Ltd

Dawn Standley Is Back On Track!

2011-03-15T04:26:00.000-07:00

Extra Mile Training & Consultancy the proud sponsors of Dawn Standley would like to congratulate the Norfolk darts star as she defied the odds to win another title. She has recently struggled with serious eye problems but after a couple of weeks of injections she went to Vauxhall Holiday Park in Great Yarmouth on 12th March 2011 and conquered the dart board by winning the ladies singles title.

Dawn also came runners up in the ladies pairs with Amanda Mallet and 5th in the mixed triples along side Vic Hubbard and Ronnie Mold.

Extra Mile Training would like to congratulate Dawn on winning and wish her all the best when goes back to Vauxhall Holiday Park on the 26th November 2011 to defend her title.

Security Supervisors at Bradford University Complete the ILM Level 3 VRQ

2010-11-25T03:53:00.000-08:00

It was an intensive 3 days at Bradford University as Security Supervisors took part in the ILM Level 3 VRQ in Effective Management. They covered 3 modules on the course:

Briefings and Presentations

Understanding Security Measures in the Workplace

Understanding Incident Management and Disaster Recovery in the Workplace

Through on course assessment and a management report submitted post course the supervisors will gain the full QCF VRQ qualification with Europe's largest management body the Institute of Leadership and Management.

At level 3 the course is demanding yet rewarding. Delegates now have a greater understanding of the role and tasks of Senior Security Management and are better equipped to contribute and assist in these tasks.

After analysing 'real life' security issues delegates delivered presentations on their findings including: Prioritisation of weaknesses and suggested improvements in line with internal and external influencing factors.

Delegates also took part in 'table top exercises' to assess, analyse and plan complex security requirements including Incident Management and Business Continuity.

If you would like any information on the course please contact the office.

You don't have to be Lord Sugar!

2010-10-11T06:19:00.000-07:00

Calling all company bosses! In today's tough economic climate taking on apprentices can prove the most cost effective way to recruit new talent, invest in the companies future and help to win new orders and tenders.

All new apprentices receive full sector specific training (many are fully funded) and are looking for a career opportunity. Throughout the programme apprentices receive a minimum of £95 per week or £2.50hr.

Business Benefits*

Improved productivity
Staff retention
Relevant Skills
Government funded
Consumers prefer firms that employ apprentices
Apprenticeships can help with plans to combat an ageing workforce
Apprenticeships help to avoid skills shortages

*information from the National Apprenticeship service

If you would like to discuss how apprenticeships might work for you please e-mail or call the office.

L2 Security Apprenticeships

2010-10-11T06:08:00.000-07:00

The Level 2 Apprenticeship for Manned Security Services is now available and subject to conditions is fully funded by the Skills Funding Agency. The Apprenticeship is available for anyone aged 18-24 and is an excellent opportunity for security companies in invest in the future of their workforce. The apprentices can be new additions to your company (min wage £95 week or £2.50 hr) or members of your existing workforce.

Apprentices undertake the:

L2 NVQ in Providing Security Services
L2 Certificate for Security Guards
L1 Key Skills in Communication, Application of Number and ICT

Additional training and development opportunities may also be available (funded) dependent on the apprentice age and needs.

For more information please contact the office via e-mail or telephone.

New Office Manager

2010-08-04T01:56:00.000-07:00

Craig Worby has joined the EMTC team. His main role will be looking after Head Office and the assessors in the field. The role will also include keeping this blog up to date.

Craig had a busy July, as well as learning the ropes in the office he has been to London and Bury St Edmunds invigilating BIIAB examinations. He has taken over all the administrative needs for exam's from booking and registration to invigilation and certification.

The Directors would like to welcome Craig to EMTC and invite him to grow with the company. He had to hit the ground running, he achieved this, the difficulty will be keeping to the pace

NVQ 2 in Controlling Parking Areas

2010-06-08T05:18:00.000-07:00

EMTC are now approved to offer the Level 2 NVQ in Controlling Parking Areas. This award will be delivered in the workplace and assessed mainly by observation.
At the moment this NVQ is fully funded by the SFA.

All Door Supervisors likely to need PHYSICAL INTERVENTION training to re-licence

2010-04-19T03:14:00.000-07:00

With the advent of the new SIA licencing standards incorporating Physical Intervention Skills, the SIA have recommended (but not yet formalised) that all Door Supervisors who need licence re-approval after August 2010 will need to have passed an accredited course.

The final decision has yet to be made, however 'best practice' should dictate that all existing licence holders 'up grade' in line with all newly qualified Door Supervisors

Extra Mile run the accredited Maybo Physical Intervention training, which is a 1 day course covering Disengagement and Holding techniques. These techniques are non-aggressive and non-pain complaint and provided Door Supervisor Staff with 'more options' when dealing with escalating situations.

All candidates for this course will need to prove competency in Conflict Management Skills, usually in the form of a copy of their existing licence.

This course will be run from our training base in Norwich or as a private course at your own location.

'Open' courses are £85 per person. Check our courses page for details on booking or call/e-mail for more information.

*NEW STANDARDS Door Supervisor Course

2010-04-19T02:22:00.000-07:00

June 1st sees the start of the 'new style' Door Supervisor SIA Licensing Course. All the licensing courses have been 're-vamped' with the CCTV and Guarding courses already in effect.

The new Doors course now incorporates Physical Intervention (PI) training and is completed after the Conflict Management unit. It provides the 'next step', what happens if someone grabs me? How do I escort a customer from a premises? PI covers Disengagement and Escorting techniques employing non-aggressive and non-pain compliant interventions.

The new course is a modular format and covers:

Part 1 Working in the Security Industry, this is the 'common' unit and is covered on all licensing courses. If you have already done this unit as part of the Guarding or CCTV course you will not need to re-do it.

Part 2 Working as a Door Supervisor (specialist unit)

Part 3 Communication and Conflict Management, like part 1 if you have completed this as part of the Guarding or CViT licence you will not need to re-do it.

Part 4 Physical Intervention Skills

The course, as before, will run over 4 days. There will be multiple choice exams for parts 1, 2, and 3 with part 4 (PI) assessed by the tutor.

The first of the new style courses will be run at the Royal British Legion in June, see course bookings for information on how to book.

Another Successful Door Supervisor Course

2010-04-19T02:03:00.000-07:00

April 5th-8th We ran a Door Supervisor Course at the Royal British Legion Norwich. A very successful course with 100% pass rate and thoroughly enjoyed by the candidates. This was the first course we have run using the BIIAB. We utilised their comprehensive Door Supervisor books, which made a great change from endless handouts! The exam papers were posted to the BIIAB on Friday and we had the results by lunchtime on Monday. This will undoubtedly speed up the process for the guys to apply for their SIA Licence.

Well done to all on the course!

Mr L - Thanks ever so much, really enjoyed the course, will recommend it.

Mr F - Thank you for an excellent course, I will recommend it to everyone

Mr H - Course great, tuition great, venue great, food great, many thanks will come back for the Physical Intervention training

Dawn Standley wins the Ladies Singles Competition at Vauxhall

2010-03-15T06:19:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Dawn on winning the Ladies Singles and the Mixed Pairs (with Vic Hubbard) darts competitions at Vauxhall this weekend.

Other Norfolk winners were Gary Butcher - Mens Singles and Mixed Triples and John Saint who was runner-up in the Young at Heart competition.

Norfolk Darts

2010-03-02T01:00:00.000-08:00

EMTC Director Geoff Herschell, the General Secretary for the Norfolk Darts Organisation (NDO), signed a contract with Rileys in February, to secure sponsorship for the NDO for the next 4 seasons.

The Norfolk main county teams and the Youth county team will play from the Rileys Norwich club.

In the photo, Simon Carpenter the General Manager of Rileys, Norwich and Geoff Herschell.

A Good Weekend for the EMTC Sponsored Sports People

2010-03-02T00:57:00.000-08:00

On Saturday Dawn Standley won the Norfolk Play-off for the British Masters Darts. She will go through to Daventry, in the summer, to try to qualify for the TV stages.

Later, Simon Mann scored in Thetford Town's three nil win at home to Cornard United.

Well done both of you.

Kent Open 2010

2010-02-01T07:21:00.000-08:00

EMTC sponsored darts player, Dawn Standley, was runner up recently in the Kent Darts Open held in Folkstone. She was narrowly beaten 3 - 1 in the final by 8 times World champion, Trina Gulliver.

Well done Dawn, keep up the good work.

BIIAB Approved

2010-01-18T05:31:00.000-08:00

EMTC are now a training centre approved by the British Institute of Innkeepers Awarding Body - BIIAB.

This means we are able to offer various Alcohol, Drug and Security related courses.

You can go to our web page and see more about BIIAB.

Head Office visit to Most Haunted Live

2010-01-14T07:32:00.000-08:00

The team from Head Office went to RAF West Raynham on Tuesday evening to watch Most Haunted Live. Geoff and Chris visited the station on many occasions during their time in the RAF Regiment so it brought back memories.

Although none of us experienced any strange or unexplained happenings on site we may have been followed back to Watton.

End of Year Blog

2009-12-23T04:52:00.000-08:00

The Directors and Staff of Extra Mile would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Press Release - Drugs

2009-09-18T02:48:00.000-07:00

EMTC are featured in the Business Section of the Eastern Daily Press today with an article on our new Drugs course; see link: This may need copying and pasting into your address bar.

http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?eid=43bb04ba-b7f2-4ea3-9bb7-45141ffd7413&pnum=8

Thetford Town Player Sponsorship

2009-09-16T01:10:00.000-07:00

Geoff went to the Thetford Town V Melford football match on Saturday to finalise a player sponsorship. It was agreed before the game with club officials that EMTC would sponsor Centre Forward Simon Mann.

It didn't take Manny long to go the Extra Mile - he scored after 5 minutes and finished the first half with a hatrick. Town eventually won 3 - 1 after a disappointing second half.

Well done Simon, have a good season from all at Extra Mile.

We hope to have some photographs of Simon and the team soon.

Sponsorship

2009-09-02T03:19:00.000-07:00

We have been maxed out so I've not had time to blog lately. I did hand this responsibility over to Nikky our new admin lady but she's been as busy as I have.

We have continued Dawn Standley's sponsorship for another season, so good luck Dawn, EMTC wish you success both in County and individual tournaments.

EMTC will be sponsoring another Thetford Town footballer this season, Geoff will hopefully wrap this up at the home match against Godmanchester Rovers on Tuesday 8th September.

EDP Article 8th May 09

2009-05-21T04:43:00.000-07:00

This article also appeared in the Thetford and Brandon Times and the Watton and Swaffham Times.

New Full Time Staff

2009-05-12T03:24:00.000-07:00

EMTC welcome on board Eddie Stephens and Steve Exley, both Security Assessors. Eddie and Steve add experience to the EMTC team, they are both currently working in the Midlands but we hope to be able to send Eddie nearer to his home in Widnes very soon. EMTC are speaking with the universities in Manchester and Liverpool.

Details about all our tutors will be added to the website soon.

Dawn and the Norfolk Ladies win the League

2009-05-12T03:19:00.000-07:00

Dawn Standley the EMTC sponsored Norfolk darts player has won the British Inter Counties Championship Individual Division 2 Ladies League 2008/9. She was also part of the BICC Div 2 Ladies "A" League winning team.

In the promotion league Norfolk finished a respectable 3rd, narrowly missing out on promotion.

Congratulations to Dawn and the Norfolk Team from all at EMTC.

Dawn Top of the League

2009-03-30T08:45:00.001-07:00

EMTC sponsorerd darts player Dawn Standley was Lady of Match once again this week in the British Inter County Championships. Dawn won 3 - 1 with an average of 21.92. The Norfolk Ladies A Team won 4 - 2 and are still undefeated.

Dawn is currently top of the division 2 ladies table with one match to go.

Work Experience - Week 1

2009-03-20T03:25:00.000-07:00

Week one was good but i had to sit through a meeting that dide'nt appeal to me because i only had a rough idea what it was about. It was better in the afternoon because they were talking about skills for life and different types of learning styles and i have done that at school. Geoff and Chris always have something for me to do. e.g. make a key for a map showing locations of assesors, + other things on Access and Excel. I'm looking forward to week two!

Roxy. (:

More New Staff

2009-03-03T08:36:00.000-08:00

Colin Hewetson and Phil Mainprize are the latest EMTC recruits. Both are experienced trainers who are now working towards their A1 with occupational competence in the public and private sectors.

2009 Update

2009-02-09T07:50:00.000-08:00

This is the first Blog entry for 2009 - so Happy New Year.

Chris and Geoff would like to welcome our new staff.

Clare Fentham has joined us permanently, she has been an associate for some time. Clare is the National Contracts Manager as well as a Tutor and now working towards her assessor award.

George Blanchflower is an associater assessor, working towards his assessor award and helping me with our Newcastle and Northumbria candidates.

Susan Hollingworth is now looking after our administration. Our files are getting organised at last.

With the work coming in fast we expect to employ more staff soon.

Football Result

2008-12-18T01:58:00.000-08:00

Thetford Town lost this week at home to Stowmarket 1-2. The good news was Craig Skipp the EMTC sponsored player scored the Thetford goal.

Wayland Community Radio 105fm

2008-12-18T01:46:00.001-08:00

Geoff is the guest on Wayland Radio tonight. Not sure what the interview is about - EMTC hopefully, I don't want to talk about my past! It will be funny answering questions during an interview, I used to give my name and number now I tend to stay silent.

www.waylandradio.com

Latest Darts News

2008-12-01T03:32:00.000-08:00

The EMTC sponsored Dawn Standley won the British Inter Counties Division 2 Ladies Player of the Weekend this week. Dawn, the Norfolk Manager, won her match 3 nil with an average of 23.12. Dawn had 6 scores of 100 in the 3 legs, one of which was a finish.

The Norfolk Ladies A Team won the match against Bedfordshire 4 - 2.

Congratulations to Dawn and all the Norfolk Ladies from all at EMTC.

Lotus Cars

2008-11-27T06:31:00.000-08:00

Lotus cars have signed 4 guards up with EMTC for the PSS NVQ with 2 more to follow next month.

University Security Teams

2008-11-27T06:24:00.000-08:00

EMTC are working with the security teams at some of the UK's finest Universities. So far The Universities of Newcastle and Northumbria have followed the UEA in Norwich in signing up staff on the Providing Security Services NVQ at level 2 (through City & Guilds). The underpinning knowledge for many of these candidates has been the NOCN level 2 CCTV course.

Dates for other starts have been agreed by Wolverhampton and Bristol Universities.

Dawn Standley Sponsorship

2008-10-06T05:57:00.000-07:00

BDO Ladies Gold Cup Winner Dawn Standley, pictured here with the Men's winner Scott Waites, is being sponsored for the 2008/9 County Season by Extra Mile Training & Consultancy Ltd.

Dawn is currently the holder of the British Grand Prix and the British Masters as well as the Gold Cup.

Dawn represents Norfolk in the British Inter-Counties Championship where she organises the Squad and Transport working closely with EMTC Director Geoff who is the County General Secretary.

Below is a picture of Dawn with the rest of the England darts squad.

Skippy goes the Extra Mile

2008-09-15T02:49:00.000-07:00

Due to circumstances beyond our control we have changed our sponsoship with Thetford Town. We have agreed to sponsor the Thetford influential midfielder Craig Skipp. This is what the TTFC site says about Craig;

Age 22 Midfield: Skippy is a product of the youth set up and has yet to fulfil his potential, this could be his season. Great Character!

EMTC Management Director Geoff wishing Craig a successful season.

Sponsorship Deal

2008-08-27T08:47:00.000-07:00

http://www.thetfordtownfc.com/

EMTC Ltd are now the proud sponspors of Daniel Corston the Goalkeeper of Thetford Town FC.

Thetford Town play in the Ridgeons League Division One.

From the Thetford Town Player Profile:

"Age 28: Signed from Brandon Town where he played successfully for 5 seasons, played in the Anglian Combination representative side that got to the semi finals nationally. Looks a bit like the "Monk" from the film "Mean Machine" which is worrying!"

Good luck for the season Dan.

ILM Team Member Development Programme

2008-08-21T04:41:00.000-07:00

Nine members of the Norfolk County Council Emergency Planning Unit took part in a one day development session at Wayland House yesterday. All seemed to enjoy the training and activities - including the Facilitator.

As well as helping the team to develop more as a team all now know how to make Quality Approved paper swans.

EMTC hope to work with the Emergency Planning Unit again soon.

PRA Success

2008-08-21T04:33:00.000-07:00

All at EMTC would like to congratulate Alan Puncher on being accepted as a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management.
Alan provided proof of his military service and we completed paperwork that was sent to ILM to be judged by a committee. They agreed with the EMTC judgement that Alan had sufficient proof of experience and ability to become a Fellow of the ILM.
Congratulations Alan Puncher FInstLM

Thetford Town Football Club

2008-08-15T02:05:00.000-07:00

EMTC are looking to sponsor a player from Thetford Town Football Club for this season. Geoff has been to 2 games so far on a scouting mission.

If there is a player out there who wants sponsoring please contact Geoff through the EMTC website.

July 08

2008-08-15T01:53:00.000-07:00

July will be the month remembered when EMTC start hitting the Security market. We had been avoiding the Providing Security Services NVQ as we had been running it for so long in the RAF but it is such a credible award that we decided to push it along with other security awards.

Our first major PSS contract is with the security team at the University of East Anglia. The entire team are completing the award, many fully funded, and all are receiving the NOCN CCTV training as part of the course.

The Directors went for a meeting with City & Guilds and some other providers to Stoke City Football Club to discuss the Spectator Safety NVQ. There are not enough providers able to offer this award at levels 3 and 4. EMTC can and will be looking to offer it to the management at events and venues.

The Security Practioner Award is going well in London. We are now looking for some more local security firms to come onboard with this.

June 08

2008-07-04T03:13:00.000-07:00

June was a busy month at work and socially.

Geoff was interviewed by ILM as he could be moving to the dizzy heights of External Verifier. He has been an assessor and Internal Verifier for ILM for a number of years.

The company had a visit friom the C&G PSS EV, went well.

Geoff presented the trophies for the local ladies darts league at the Methwold Social Club. Geoff is currently the Chairman of Norfolk Youth Darts.

Chris was invited to sit on the committee of the Skills for Security Leisure Sector Group in London to discuss the way forward with security qualifications.

Geoff collected the Norfolk Superleague Darts Trophy on behalf of Thetford whose Men's team won the league by 10 points. Geoff is the manager of Thetford Darts, he also captains 2 teams and plays for a 3rd.

EMTC had an article in the Business Section of the EDP on 18th.

EMTC had 2 articles in the Watton & Swaffham Times on 25th.

Opening post

2008-07-03T02:13:00.000-07:00

This blog page opened today, 3rd July 2008. It will be used to pass on useful information about EMTC, diary dates, education, events - past and future, and other items that I feel could interest you.