25 June 2025
Armed Forces Reserves Day 2025
Reservists give up their spare time to serve in the Reserve Forces, balancing their civilian life with a military career to ensure that should their country require them, they would be ready to serve as part of the military. Reservists are currently supporting operations worldwide. The Reserve Forces make up approximately one sixth of our
10 June 2025
Ben Keegan, our Health & Safety Manager is awarded the Love for Life Award
Congratulations to Ben Keegan, who received a 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 from the SCS project as part of their site-wide Leadership Impact Day. Costain, one of our projects joint venture contractors, carry out a Bi-Yearly leadership impact day. This Leadership impact day the focus was on the theme of engagement taking opportunity to refresh our
19 May 2025
Happy 80th Birthday to our Chairman – Sean Fitzpatrick!
We would like to take this opportunity to wish our Chairman, Sean Fitzpatrick, a Happy 80th Birthday. Last week our team joined together to celebrate this incredible milestone and Ciara Pryce, his daughter and our CEO, took the opportunity to share some stories about her father with the team. Below is an excerpt from the
4 February 2025
VGC Group Announces New Regional Directors
VGC Group is pleased to announce the promotion of Chris O’Sullivan and James Burke to the roles of Regional Directors. These promotions reflect their achievements in delivering multi-million-pound recruitment solutions across major infrastructure projects. In their new roles, Chris, (responsible for London, the South East and South West) and James (responsible for the Midlands, Wales
31 January 2025
Leadership changes in 2025 at the VGC Group
The VGC Group is excited to announce significant leadership changes in 2025, positioning the company to capitalise on emerging opportunities within the infrastructure sector and continue supporting clients with their recruitment needs across the UK and beyond. Ciara Pryce has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer, where she will lead the company’s business strategy and
20 December 2024
End of Year Christmas Round-Up
2024 – another successful year in review! We would like to express our sincere thanks for your hard work and contribution to VGC in 2024! Over the last 18 months we have been in a period of transition as we merged our ‘trades & labour’ and ‘professional & technical’ recruitment divisions into one recruitment business
16 July 2024
VGC collaborate with Danny Sullivan Group as finalists for the 2024 Construction News Awards
Last Thursday, VGC attended the 2024 Construction News Awards as finalists with Danny Sullivan Group (DSG), after both organisations set a new standard for collaboration in the industry and was shortlisted in our joint entry for Supply Chain Collaboration Excellence. Our aligned mission and vision have allowed us to foster a collaborative partnership for over
9 July 2024
First company in the UK to achieve CHAS ESG accreditation
VGC and CHAS are proud to announce that VGC have become the first company in the UK to be awarded the CHAS Social Sustainability (ESG) accreditation. This accreditation highlights VGC’s ongoing commitment to delivering industry leading environmental, social, and governance standards, setting a new benchmark within the construction industry for all to aim for. The
3 July 2024
VGC Triumphs at New Civil Engineer Awards 2024
VGC Group is proud to announce its recent accolade at the New Civil Engineer Awards, where we were named the Recruitment Solutions Provider of the Year. This award recognises and celebrates exceptional recruitment services within the construction and civil engineering industry, highlighting our commitment over the past 18 months. As an industry-leading provider of support
28 June 2024
VGC appoints Peter Ball and Steve Kenny to the board of directors
We are delighted to announce both Peter Ball and Steve Kenny have been appointed to the VGC Group board of directors. These appointments will expand upon our senior leadership teams expertise and continue to drive VGC’s commitment to being the most trusted and valued recruitment partner. Peter Ball, Legal, Compliance and Governance Director Peter, having
28 May 2024
Freedom of the City of London awarded to VGC Chairman and COO
Leaders of VGC Group, Sean Fitzpatrick (Chairman) and his daughter Ciara Pryce (COO), were honoured with the Freedom of the City of London on Friday 24th May 2024 at a prestigious ceremony at the Guildhall, home to the City of London Corporation. The ceremony took place in the Chamberlains Court room witnessed by close family
30 March 2023
VGC Academy awarded CITB Leadership & Management grant
VGC Group are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a grant by the CITB Leadership and Management Development fund to continue investment in training at the VGC Academy. The VGC Academy was established in 2018, to bring together all learning and development activities at the VGC Group under one umbrella. This training includes
