Looking to the future with new Community School partnership

20.06.2023

Partnership

Farrell and Ardee Community School are partnering to provide fixed-term contracts to students, allowing them to gain work experience and exposure to the working environment. The collaboration offers students various opportunities, including summer work, seasonal employment, and full-time positions in different sectors of the company.

The new partnership will give students the opportunity to work for the summer, undertake seasonal work or full-time employment in many different sectors across the company such as; warehousing, saws and veneer, combi and bore, assembly, edge finish and UV, dispatch and more.

Work life

Ardee Community School will prepare the students for work life by assisting them in acquiring essential requirements such as a bank account, safe pass, manual handling course, provisional license, CV, and interview skills.

Anthony Durnin from Ardee Community School’s Construction & Woodwork Department said of the partnership; “the idea was born from the school wanting to develop links with local businesses to cater for students who have no real interest in pursuing college degrees and want to enter the working environment.

‘Earn as you Learn’ is a slogan that we encourage here at Ardee Community School. We have known both Brendan and Paul Farrell over the years and how successful Farrell are as a business and important they are to the town and we had an idea to link the woodwork department in the school with Farrell and they were very happy to accept”.

Excitement

Farrell’s Joint-CEO, Brendan Farrell, Joint-CEO of Farrell Furniture, expressed his excitement about the new partnership; “We are delighted to work with the students and teachers of Ardee Community School and to invest in the young people of the town, our future workers and leaders. Our corporate social responsibility policy is to ensure that we give back to our community and this is what this collaboration does. It is an opportunity to give back to the community that has supported our business for almost 62 years.”

Get in touch

If you are interested in applying please call our office on 041 685 3418 or contact [email protected]