A UK independent supplier of cushion fillings has backed the British Furniture Manufacturers (BFM) campaign, which shines a spotlight on sustainability and education in the sector.
BFM's Future of Furniture highlights career pathways and opportunities in the furniture sector, and celebrates the strides its members are making in education through its Future of Furniture Awards.
Fibreline Ltd is a family-owned business based in Keighley, Yorkshire, and features in a new video focusing on the company's degree apprenticeship scheme.
Richard Prudhoe is Managing Director at Fibreline. He says: 'We're a family-owned business supplying the trade with upholstery cushions for sofas and chairs in the domestic marketplace.'
'The BFM's Future of Furniture campaign is crucial to us, we're very pleased to support it. We believe there is a future for the furniture manufacturing sector in the UK. We've always offered an apprenticeship scheme and around five years ago we felt it was time to up our game, so we decided to offer a degree apprenticeship scheme,' he continues. 'We're very keen to make sure our apprentices have the ability to study and be supported by colleagues and other apprentices within the business.'
The video available to view here and features interviews with degree apprentices at Fibreline, Jacob Martin, Amy Bell and Bradley Picken.
Jacob says, 'I think that being able to have the university degree is great, but having the experience on top of that really makes it worth doing. It's definitely important that we get a pipeline of young talent coming into the industry and BFM's Future of Furniture initiative is a great way to showcase what we do.'
BFM Managing Director, Phil Spademan says, 'Our Future of Furniture initiative is driving conversations about what the sector can do to attract new talent through education opportunities and how we can work towards a more sustainable future for our member businesses and the communities they serve. We're delighted Fibreline Ltd is backing our campaign and demonstrating the ways in which the furniture industry can step up when it comes to education.'
More information:
The British Furniture Manufacturers
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