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Sponsorship Spotlight
Sponsorship
Spotlight
Barry Devlin Services is one
of the College’s platinum
sponsors, donating the
cars for our motor vehicle
workshop which ensure that
our students to have the best
learning experience.
Barry Devlin Services
is celebrating a special
anniversary – 45 years since
it was first established. With
depots in Knockintiber and
Ayr, it is one of Ayrshire’s
most successful family-run
businesses specialising in a
24/7 recovery service.
Customers include Stagecoach,
Arnold Clark roadside recovery,
Scottish Ambulance Service,
Volvo and DAF. With a fleet of
15 liveried trucks, many people
will recognise this vital service
provided 365 days a year.
Paul Devlin
out, along with any parts
that have a value and can be
recycled, and finally crushed
and baled.
It isthrough this recycling
process that Paul Devlin,
managing director, identifies
cars that could be used by
The other side of the business
is perhaps less well known, and Ayrshire College students
for training purposes in their
involves disposing of vehicles
motor vehicle workshop. Barry
that have reached the end
Devlin Services supplies all
of their life. 85% of a vehicle
the cars – currently there are
has to be recycled and this
14 at our Kilmarnock campus.
involves buying cars that have
This means our students are
been written off by insurance
companies because they would learning to work on a variety
of cars - hybrid, electric, petrol
cost too much to repair. They
and diesel - helping them to
are depolluted (draining them
of any fluids and disposing this learn the skills they will need
when they get a job.
waste), the engine is stripped
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“
We wanted to give
something back to the
community and sponsoring
all the cars in the College
motor vehicle workshop,
seemed the best way for
us to get involved. We also
sponsor the Excellence
Awards which recognises
achievement of students
who have been successful
with their course.
”
Paul Devlin, Managing Director,
Barry Devlin Services