Representatives from sister chartered surveyors Shepherd and Hardies presented the attractions of the surveying profession to eager pupils at St Mungo’s Academy Careers Fair in Glasgow’s east end last week.

Sandra Berwick, Developing the Young Workforce Towards Better Futures, Education, at Glasgow City Council, thanked surveyors Fraser McDonald, Jack Crichton and Thomas Peter Haggarty for their attendance.

She said: “There has been some fantastic feedback from the young people in attendance; all felt the event was extremely beneficial in supporting their career decisions and pathways to employment, apprenticeships, further/higher education, and training.

You have played a positive part in inspiring and preparing our future workforce for their next steps.”

Shepherd and Hardies’ presence at the event formed the latest aspect of their ongoing support to Clyde Gateway, the urban regeneration company driving inward investment and improvement for the people and communities across the east end of Glasgow and South Lanarkshire.

Covering the communities of Bridgeton, Dalmarnock and Rutherglen, Clyde Gateway is a partnership of Glasgow City Council, South Lanarkshire Council and Scottish Enterprise, with financial backing from the Scottish Government.

Sandra Hendry, Project Manager at Clyde Gateway, added: “We’re delighted to see Shepherd and Hardies actively engaging with young people in our communities as part of their commitment to the Property Consultancy Services Framework.

Their participation in the St Mungo’s Academy Careers Fair is a great example of how community benefit agreements can create meaningful opportunities and inspire future careers in regeneration and the built environment.”

Adam Honeyman, partner at Shepherd Chartered Surveyors, said: “We were delighted to attend St Mungo’s Academy Careers Fair to give pupils an opportunity to survey their career options.

As Scotland’s leading surveyors who, uniquely, span the full spectrum of career opportunities available within this fast-moving, high-tech global profession, we can shepherd pupils along their chosen career path in surveying.”

He added: “Whether their ambitions reside in residential, commercial, building or quantity surveying, the full spectrum of surveying services offered by Shepherd and Hardies means they can achieve their maximum potential and work towards a long and fruitful career in surveying.”

Named for the patron saint of Glasgow, St Mungo’s Academy was founded by the Marist Brothers in 1858 to educate poor Catholic boys, largely Irish immigrants in the city’s east end with ambitions to create a Catholic professional class by educating the boys to secondary level and preparing them for university.

By 1989 the school was a comprehensive, co-educational state Roman Catholic school, still called St Mungo’s Academy with equal numbers of boys and girls. It now serves the increasingly multi-cultural community of the east end areas of Calton, Bridgeton, Parkhead and Barrowfield, with over 50 different languages spoken by its pupils.