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Ben’s a man on a mission with insurance exam success
Catalyst Services UK insurance apprentice Benjamin Thomas is learning fast – he has passed...
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August 2014 – Company established
May 2015 – Finalist, Start-up of the year, Oldham Business Awards
August 2015 – Turnover for first year’s trading £53,834.10
August 2015 – Move into new offices at Cairo House, Oldham
Sept 2015 – Senior Technical and Networks Manager Paul Duddle joins Catalyst
January 2016 – New claims management software introduced
July 2016 – Business Development Manager Jon Haddon joins Catalyst
April 2017 – Attracts first Tier 1 insurer as a customer
August 2017 – Turnover for 2016-17 breaks through £1million
December 2017 – Catalyst joins Subsidence Forum
December 2017 – Move to bigger offices in Delph
January 2018 – Catalyst creates a new insurance sector apprenticeship, by creating Customer Service Practitioner Apprenticeship Standard with the Chartered Insurance Institute Customer Service in Insurance Qualification
February 2018 – Catalyst takes on 1st apprentice, Joe Langridge
February 2018 – Business of the Year (Under 10 employees) Greater Manchester Business Awards 2017
May 2018 – Finalist – Business between £1m and £5m, Oldham Business Awards
June 2018 – Brad Jackson, Rising Star Awards, Finalist, Post Claims Awards
October 2018 – Participates in first Subsidence Forum Training Day
November 2018 – Becomes SafeContractor
November 2018 – Joins the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
November 2018 – Joins the Water Jetting Association
January 2019 – Participates in Oldham Pledge
March 2020 – Signs Greater Manchester Good Employment Charter
March 2020 – Achieves Hellios Information certification so is fully registered on the FSQS supplier qualification system.
May 2020 – Catalyst went live with Home Emergency Heating and Plumbing.
July 2020 – Catalyst Claims becomes a signatory to the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter
August 2020 – Second Apprentice, Emily Carter, recruited
November 2020 – Investing in the Profession Training Award, Finalist, British Insurance Awards 2020
June 2021 – Enters 10,000th claim onto new innovative claims platform
August 2021 – Turnover for 2020-21 rises to £3.3m, which is 165% of the £2.0m turnover for 2019-20
March 2022 – Financial Controller Stella Fidler ACA joins Catalyst.
April 2022 – Business Improvement Manager Yvonne Bardsley joins Catalyst.
July 2022 – Shortlisted under the Claims Collaboration of the Year category for the Insurance Post Claims and Fraud Awards.
July 2022 – Named as a finalist in the Employer of the Year and Business of the Year categories in the Oldham Business Awards.
October 2022 – Winner of Business of the Year and Finalist in the Employer of Year category in the Oldham Business Awards.
October 2022 – Technical Claims Manager John Carrington joins Catalyst.
February 2023 – Leah Morgan is promoted to be client service leader.
February 2023 – Paul Slattery joins as operations manager.
March 2023 – Workforce doubles in size in 12 months to respond to instructions from new customers.
March 2023 – Vicky Wells is promoted to Home Emergency Division Team Leader
April 2023 – Catalyst’s first two apprentices, Emily Carter and Joe Langridge, receive their Chartered Insurance Institute Certificates.
May 2023 – Paul Duddle is appointed vice chair of the Subsidence Forum.
July 2023 – New operational structure established as Catalyst begins delivering services to three new clients
August 2023 – Ami Beveridge joins Catalyst as Technical Account Manager
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