About ARV Solutions

• Callum Howard promoted to Divisional Lead for our Construction & Commercial Division
• Callum Nickells promoted to Divisional Lead for our Marketing & Sales Division
• Accredited Platinum with Investors in People! – a HUGE achievement for the whole team
• Bristol Life Awards, finalists for Best People Services
• Investors in People Awards, Finalists, Platinum Employer of the Year
• Sponsors, Structural Timber Awards

Record January figures, outachieving last year by 17%

• Deb Roach re-joins the business as Operations Director
• Jody Biss joins the business as a resource for the team
• Will Bentley joined the business as Account Manager
• Annie and Ciara joined the business as Resourcers
• Graham Brown Celebrates 10 years at ARV Solutions
• Exhibited at Bristol Careers Fair – first one back since covid
• Bristol Life Awards finalists for People Services
• Business Leader Awards finalists
• REC Awards – Sue Eustace finalist for Permanent Recruiter of the Year
• Investors in People Awards finalists for Reward and Recognition
• The start of our office improvements with predicted 70% savings in energy consumption
• Sponsored the pre-event drinks reception at the Offsite Awards
• Sponsored the table balloons at the Structural Timber Awards
• Sponsored the Structural Timber Association’s winter conference
• Published article in Bristol Life Magazine written by Jim Roach
• Published article by Managing Director Jim Roach in the Offsite Magazine

Sue Eustace and Graham Brown promoted to Associate Director at ARV Solutions

• Sue Eustace and Graham Brown promoted to Associate Director. more here
• Record Q1 results
• June: Tommy Winstone joins as our latest Trainee
• July: Strategy Day to establish the 3 Year Business Plan
• Jim Roach Winner, REC Awards, Business Leader of the Year
• We ended the year achieving 20% more than our previous best year to date, and grew to 14 staff

• Covid hit! We’ve kept going and hugely innovated for better recruitment!
• ARVIEW service launched, incorporating advanced video interview tech & client portal. Quicker, higher quality, lower cost.
• ARV-ADS launched. Recruit direct, with a low cost effective advertising and management suite. more here.
• Investors in People Awards finalists for Gold Employer of the year.
• Rob Elford and Craig Nicholls are promoted to Associate Director.
• Sponsored and introduced the first virtual Offsite Awards, with 26 clients shortlisted
• Finalists! ‘Employer of the Year’ Federation of Small Businesses
• Exhibited at Futurebuild – just pre-lockdown!

• Investors In People Gold – re-accredited
• Finalist! Best Recruitment Innovation at the Building Innovation Awards
• Finalist! Graham Brown, Permanent Recruitment Consultant of the year at the IRP Awards
• Finalist! Jim Roach, Manager of the Year, Investors In People Awards
• Finalist! Employer of the Year, Federation of Small Business Awards
• Sponsors for Offsite Construction Awards, Structural Timber Awards
• Exhibitors at Futurebuild, Modular Matters, Offsite Expo, SW Construction Summit, Focus on Framing, Explore Offsite series, STA AGM

• Record number of placements, for more employers than ever before. 
• Offsite Salary Guide published in Offsite Magazine. ARV Salary Guide 2019-2020
• Principal Account Manager, Sue Eustace, celebrated 10 years service!
• Jim Roach podcast with Andrew Carpenter, Chief Executive of the Structural Timber Association. Listen here
• Jim Roach, hosted a round table debate on future skills needs for the offsite sector.
• Exhibitors at Ecobuild, UK Construction Week, Modular Matters, Explore Offsite series, STA AGM, 
• Offsite Awards, sponsor of the drinks reception,
• STA Awards Dinner Sponsors
• Finalist! ‘Employer of the Year’  at the Federation of Small Businesses Awards.

Winner! Jim Roach wins Investors In People, Manager of the Year Award for placing an emphasis on teamwork, collaboration, long-term results, and professional development. 

Finalists! Employer of the Year at the Business Leader Awards: prestigious South West business awards

Exhibitors at Explore Offsite series, Ecobuild, UK Construction Week – Timber Expo

Sponsors of Offsite Awards and STA Awards

• Awarded GOLD Accreditation by Investors In People. “Having attained the IIP Gold Accreditation is a great achievement with a first-time assessment” IIP Assessor. Awarded to the top 2% of organisations assessed, so to achieve this at first attempt is almost unknown.  Read more here 
• Purchased new Headquarters – 3000 sq/ft to expand into. The perfect space to continue to grow the team well into the future. Dedicated staff break-out area, interview suites and meeting rooms – home sweet home!
• Our Team attend our first TEAM Conference (The Employment Agency Movement) – 400 independent recruiters learning and dancing!
• Exhibitors at Ecobuild, Offsite Construction Show, Explore Offsite, Timber Expo

Exhibiting at industry events allows us to maintain and build connections and build on our knowledge of the industry, and recent developments.

• We joined the Offsite Construction Show as exhibitors for the first time.
• We exhibited at UK Construction Week – as part of Timber Expo.
• We sponsored our first Structural Timber Awards, now a key highlight in our calendar each year and it is fantastic to see more and more of our clients make the shortlist for the awards each year.

Mo the ARV Solutions dog joins the team! He particularly likes coming in on Friday mornings so doesn’t miss out on his bacon and sausage sandwich with the rest of the team!  

2010 saw us awarded a contract with the Department for Work and Pensions to provide back to work support for unemployed professionals.

This was a time when long term employees found themselves out of work, often for the first time in many years. We advised on how to seek work in the internet era, whereas most had previously relied on Newspaper adverts previously!

We rented our first office and Sue Eustace joined the team! We might have moved on from that office but Sue, our longest serving team member is still with us today!

In late 2003 ARV Solutions was established as a specialist recruitment agency by Jim Roach, following 14 years main-stream recruitment agency experience across construction, manufacturing and engineering.

It was time to go it alone, and create the business and environment I really wanted to work in. I was idealistic about wanting to rise above the hard sell, numbers driven, and league table mentality in recruitment. I was certain there was a more collaborative way to work, bringing clients and candidates with us, building trust and partnerships. 

I’m proud that we’ve held true to all these ideals, and had a lot of fun (and no end of hard work!) building a business where people come first, they are rewarded for collaboration and quality, and we have so many loyal clients and a great reputation.