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On Sunday 4 May 2008 Rachel Blackburn completed the 5km Race for Life for Cancer Research UK in about 32 minutes. Thanks to all the sponsors.

We are pleased to continue working with ABC Taxis on the next phase of their business development by helping them build on their growing success.

Their progressive attitude has allowed for really positive development and it is great to further assist them with their vision:

"To be the best, most professional taxi service in Norwich delivering an excellent customer service experience by attracting the best drivers and staff. This will make ABC Taxis the preferred choice for customers and third parties."

During US2U Consulting’s 8^th birthday week, we were pleased to support the Norfolk Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development Conference. In addition to having a stand complete with birthday cake and balloons, Rachel Blackburn delivered three seminars focusing on developing Influencing Skills.

“It was great to work with so many people from the local HR community and I believe that I have been able to pass on practical tools to help develop influencing skills which should make a positive impact on so many organisations across Norfolk ” said Rachel.

At the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce event involving all the Norfolk MPs back in February 2014, Rachel Blackburn, Director of US2U Consulting, raised the issue that it was taking over 3 months for a new taxi driver to get their licence from Norwich City Council, on behalf of her client ABC Taxis Ltd. As ABC Taxis planned to recruit 20 new drivers this year to meet customer demand, this clearly was a concern to them and also to the individuals concerned who are keen to start their new career.

Chloe Smith MP and Simon Wright MP agreed to help to solve the problem. Working with Rachel Blackburn who met with Norwich City Council to profile the process in more detail, it has been a team effort to resolve the issue. Norwich City Council have agreed that the process should take around 5 weeks and currently the experience when hiring the new drivers recently has been that it has been taking around 8 weeks - a significant difference.

US2U Consulting and ABC Taxis have also produced a film to make the recruitment and licencing process easier to understand from the new recruits point of view. This can be seen on the ABC Taxis website at http://www.abctaxisnorwich.co.uk/Recruitment.aspx. Chloe Smith also visited the ABC Taxis team as part of the process.

The theme was the Olympics and there was excellent teamwork all round!

It was great to have a football goal donated by Harrod UK, an official London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games supplier.

"On behalf of all here at ABC, I want to say thank you for your hard work, time and effort that you put into the Lord Mayor's Procession. The day was a huge success and boosted our company and image to a wide range of the general public. The weather stayed dry and feedback was great; everyone had a fantastic time and it was nice to see the team making such an effort." Simon Callender, Director ABC Taxis Ltd.

It was great to have been part of this celebration of the fabulous food and drink Norfolk has to offer as we support so many clients as part of the supply chain for this sector.

Rachel Blackburn was proud to be invited to attend the City College Norwich 2015 Graduation Ceremony at Norwich Cathedral on Saturday 24 October.

City College Norwich, celebrating 125 years of Providing Educational Excellence in 2016, were recognising Rachel's comitment to representing employers on their Leadership and Business graduate programmes over the last year.

Rachel commented, "It was great to be able to support this year's graduates and help provide them with the skills to compete in the graduate job market. Congratulations to them all!"

Being an active part of the community is extremely important to US2U Consulting and recently we've been helping year 11 students at Sprowston High School in Norwich, Norfolk to experience what a job interview feels like.

Part of the 'Inspiring the Future' initiative (http://www.inspiringthefuture.org), this is designed to prepare them for the workplace and provides a great opportunity to put into practice their skills and knowledge of what it takes to secure a job in today's competitive employment market.

"It's tough to get a job when you first leave education so having the ability to impress a prospective employer in an interview is a must" said John Miller, Director of US2U Consulting.

Feedback from the students has said how much they learnt from the experience even if it was (in their words) "terrifying and exciting"!

US2U Consulting were pleased to donate an assortment of sweets and confectionary, left over from a recent event, to Your Own Place CIC, a Norwich-based social enterprise committed to finding new solutions to old problems with the prevention of youth homelessness as the final outcome.

Your Own Place Director and Founder, Rebecca White, tweeted "our young people are going to love them in the training flat" - their recently-launched property in which they will provide hands-on training and experience of how to live indepently to young people.

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US2U Consulting are proud to have produced a promotional video for Your Own Place CIC, a Norwich-based social enterprise that prepares young people for independence and adult life.

Having pledged to donate the time for filming and editing at their Christmas drinks reception in December, US2U Consulting's Richard Howes visited Your Own Place CIC's Tenancy Training flat in Norwich to capture what they do in action.

Watch the video for an insight into Your Own Place CIC's fun, colourful and interactive approach to tackling youth homelessness in the region:

Rebecca White, Director of Your Own Place CIC, said "Richard really did an excellent job and I'm enormously grateful to US2U Consulting for sponsoring this on our behalf. It will communicate very well with lots of partners."

Find out more about how an US2U Consulting-produced promotional video can enhance your organisation's image here.

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Have you the drive and skills to enhance our Consultancy Team?

You will be MBA qualified or similar with a track record of achieving significant change in a range of organisations.

Working across the UK and internationally, our Consultants build positive relationships with clients from a wide range of sectors, analyse business plans and issues with a view to designing and delivering creative and cost effective solutions which achieve measurable results.

You will have particular expertise in one or more of the following:

- Management Development & Training

- Organisational Development

- Recruitment

- Sales and Marketing

If you have the selling and influencing skills, initiative, energy, can do approach and desire to succeed as a key member of the team then please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. today.