Winner Gold Award: Katy Robinson, East Riding of Yorkshire Council
Having started her construction career as an apprentice quantity surveyor at an SME, Katy Robinson is keen to encourage others to follow her into the industry. Now a senior project manager at East Riding of Yorkshire Council, she is working to make construction sites a more welcoming place for women and minority groups.
Robinson co-founded the Yorkshire branch of the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) in February 2022. Since then, NAWIC has held over 15 school events involving over 4,600 young women from 55 different schools across Yorkshire.
Through NAWIC Yorkshire, where she is currently campaigns manager, Robinson created the School2Site programme, which gives young women the chance to visit construction sites. To date, 30 students from five schools have visited projects in Yorkshire and the scheme is now being replicated in other UK NAWIC regions.
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