Achievements behind the scenes

This year we invested time in our development and growth as an organisation. Development of three different sectors provided a broad range of learnings. Throughout the year we gained; Cyber Essential certification, IOSH managing Safely and Gwen achieved ILM Level 2 – Team & Leadership Skills qualification.

Cyber Essentials is a foundation level certification and a government-backed and industry supported scheme designed to provide a statement of the basic controls’ organisations should have in place to mitigate the risk from common cyber threats.¹

Throughout the intense investigation into each element of our cyber network, we developed processes to mitigate risk of cyber-attacks and organisation wide policies were implemented. 
The second course successfully achieved was the IOSH – Managing Safely. The Managing Safely ® course aids in improving the safety awareness culture in an organisation, the course boasts following completion; productivity increase and enhanced reputation within the supply chain by embedding safety and health across the whole organisation.² The course provided the understanding of employees own responsibilities for health and safety, allowing for personal reflection of good practice and knowledge of conducting investigations if required. This course was a great base for more event specific health and safety management to be gained in the near future.  

The third course conducted in 2023 was the ILM Level 2 Team & leadership Skills and successfully achieved by our newly promoted Event Manager Gwen.

The course provided invaluable techniques to support the undertaking of the new role. As well as creating greater team collaboration and introducing ways of working more efficiently as a team leader.

Ensuring the development opportunities available were capitalised on has allowed us to gain enhanced understanding and confidence for situations which may arise. All three accreditations have provided further knowledge and increased skills set to the organisation. Continued learning has only benefitted Grapevine with new objectives set and clear goals for the future in place.