17-03-2010

The VGC Group has signed up to sponsor the new category of Rail Team of the Year at the RailStaff Awards 2010.  The VGC Group works extensively with the rail industry including the London Underground and has 50 years experience of supplying staff and delivering projects on the infrastructure.

Says Tom O’Connor, managing director of the Rail Media Group, which is organising the RailStaff Awards, ‘We are delighted to welcome the VGC Group to this year’s expanded RailStaff Awards. Team work is essential to the safe running and expansion of the rail industry. Supporters told us we should do more to recognise team work and we agree. From train crews to on-track teams the industry depends upon team work. We are happy to take forward the idea of a new award: Rail Team of the Year. The VGC Group is best placed to sponsor this category. VGC is as renowned for the excellence of its training and team development work as it is for the safe delivery of projects on time and on budget.’

Laurence McKidd, Managing Director at the VGC Group says, ‘Team work is one of our core values at VGC and we believe it is nowhere better exemplified than by the hundreds of staff working as teams in the railway industry. Many of these people work for VGC and work well and very professionally with colleagues from every part of the rail industry. It is their excellence and hard work that we seek to recognise at the RailStaff Awards.”

The RailStaff Awards, now in its fourth year, will be held on 23rd October 2010 at the International Convention Centre, Birmingham.