Archive for October, 2007

Client Focus: Award-winning Bromford Housing

October 30th, 2007

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Roevin is very proud to provide translation services to Bromford Housing, which won a national award earlier this year, receiving the ‘One-Star – First Class’ Best Companies Accreditation – only given to organisations who can demonstrate high levels of colleague engagement as an integral component of their success and growth. In the past they have been rated 5th best company in the UK by the Sunday Times, featured in The Guardian’s list of top British Employers and won the Unisys/Management Today Service Excellence Awards for two successive years.

Bromford Housing Group provide affordable housing and associated support services to customers throughout Central England. Bromford Group is a market leader in supported housing, helping young people, the elderly and those with mental health needs, learning disabilities and acquired brain injuries to live independently. Founded over 40 years ago, the organisation has grown significantly. With their development partners, they have achieved more Housing Corporation funding than any other partnership in the Midlands and have one of the country’s largest housing development programmes. Allocations announced for 2006-2008 give The Bromford Partnership more new homes for the amount of funding than any other partnership outside London.

Melanie Reid, Customer Communications Manager, commented on why working closely with Roevin helps their communication strategy: “We send the raw texts of our letters, newsletters and other customer communications to Roevin and we know that the transcribed documents will be returned to us within the promised time and at a very high quality standard. This doesn’t only give us peace of mind, it also saves us a lot of money and time, and most of all it provides a highly important service to our non English speaking customers. Our customers feel that we’re meeting their communication needs, they have access to all the information they need and we are delighted to be able to engage with our customers and ensure we continue to deliver exceptional customer service.”

Roevin works closely with the organisation translating their legal and tenant documents into a number of minority languages including Punjabi and Farsi. To ensure all of their literature supports the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA), Bromford actively seeks to offer as many alternative formats as possible in order to reach their entire diverse customer base.

Gail Owen completes her first half marathon for Breast Cancer Care

October 26th, 2007

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In September, Gail Owen, Account Manager at Roevin’s Birmingham office, returned home to Wales to compete in the Lake Vyrnwy half marathon. A year ago Gail actively avoided running and would have only just managed to run a mile in 15-30 minutes. Inspired by her brother, who is a fitness trainer, Gail registered for her first organised event at Lake Vyrnwy and completed the course in 2 hours and 18 minutes, raising £75 for Breast Cancer Care.

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Gail Owen, pictured with her brother less than a minute after completing the course

Gail commented “I was convinced that all of my energetic friends who raved about running were slightly mad; however the day after completing the course I was on the internet searching for future events and couldn’t wait to get back on the road again. I too, am now addicted to running.”

Gail’s ultimate goal is to run a full marathon. The whole team wishes Gail all the best with her ambition!

Roevin Welcomes… Cathrine Fredriksson

October 21st, 2007

Cathrine Fredriksson recently joined the Glasgow team as a Project Manager. Originally from Gothenburg, Sweden, Cathrine has been living abroad for the past three years. She spent time in Sweden and France as part of the European Business Programme earning a degree in Management Science from the Ecole Supérieur de Commerce in Montpellier. Not content with one degree, Cathrine decided to move to Glasgow to undertake a Masters in English.

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Cathrine Fredriksson joins the Glasgow team

Cathrine is very excited about her new position at Roevin: “I have settled in well in Glasgow, this seems a really interesting role and I cannot wait to learn all about the translation business.”

…and Roevin says goodbye to Paul Adie

Cathrine replaces Paul Adie who left us to fulfil his ambition to live and work in Estonia. Paul’s great sense of humour will be greatly missed and we wish him all the best.

Liz Athey and Natasha Williams speak at the ATC Conference

October 18th, 2007

Roevin was invited by the Association of Translation Companies to share its experience of the pilot Graduate Apprenticeship Scheme at this year’s annual conference in London on 20th September 2007. The ATC is the UK body representing the interests of translation companies and offers impartial advice to those seeking translation services.

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Liz Athey and Natasha Williams at the ATC Conference

Liz Athey, Operations Manager and Natasha Williams, a Graduate Apprentice from Aston University, provided perspectives from a host company and student. Natasha Williams said “The placement gave me invaluable experience into many different aspects of the translation industry.” Liz Athey, Operations Manager, commented that “the falling numbers of students studying languages at school and university will lead to a critical skills shortage if not addressed and so it’s important that translation companies do all they can to encourage careers in the language industry.” The Graduate Apprenticeship Scheme aims to offer MA students in Translation Studies a high quality structured work placement within a professional translation organisation.

Roevin rewards outstanding achievement at Aston University

October 10th, 2007

Roevin’s Association with the University of Aston in Birmingham continued with the presentation of the “Achievement in Translation” award to Katie Wilson. Katie was the most outstanding student on the BSc Translation Studies course at Aston.

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Katie Wilson with her award

As well as studying French, she also studied ab initio German and Spanish. Katie spent her compulsory year abroad in France, working as a teaching assistant in two primary schools. Katie is now going on to study as a teacher of modern languages.