NHS Shared Business Services Awards National Interpreting Contract to thebigword

The National Health Service Shared Business Service Commercial Procurement  Solutions (NHS SBS CPS), which provides strategic procurement services for NHS Trusts has appointed thebigword, as sole supplier under Lot 6 Managed Services for its new Interpretation and Translation Framework. The two year initial term of the Framework Agreement will allow thebigword, the largest independent language services…

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thebigword Backs New Interpreter Training Courses

thebigword, the world top-12 language services company, has given its backing to new online training courses for Public Service Interpreters developed by Leeds Metropolitan University and the International School of Linguists, a training and testing partner of thebigword. The courses will help meet the increasing demand for professional interpreters who work alongside public sector bodies…

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Call for U.S Businesses to Re-Ignite Corporate Social Responsibility

h3. Corporate philanthropy has been allowed to wither during recession, says Stevies Gold Award winner The Wall Street CEO of the company that has won the Gold ‘Stevie’ American Business Award for Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year has called on U.S. companies to embrace the CSR approach. Joshua Gould, CEO and EVP of…

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thebigword Recruits for its Defence, Justice and International Security Division

h3. thebigword, the world’s 12th largest translation and interpreting company, is expanding its Defence, Justice and International Security (DJIS) Division. The Division, which already provides interpreters to support UK operations in Afghanistan, is heading for 200 per cent growth with a number of major contracts expected to start during the coming 12 months. The latest…

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Gould Collects Award From Portillo

“Invest, and ignore the doom and gloom merchants,” says thebigword CEO. Entrepreneur Larry Gould has added another accolade to his collection, receiving an award from former Government Minister and TV presenter Michael Portillo at the Institute of Directors’ (IOD) Director of the Year Awards. Larry Gould, CEO of language services company thebigword, was entered into…

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5 Years of Larry’s bigword Blog!

Entrepreneur’s blog charts the challenges of running a global business through the economic turmoil from 2008 to the present day. Blogs are hardly big news these days but when thebigword’s  CEO Larry Gould started his blog in November 2008, it was rare for a leading businessman to put his life online; and to be quite…

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Language Company geared up for Romanian and Bulgarian Interpreting and Translating

thebigword is ready to help Government agencies and businesses with language support that will help migrants make a ‘quicker contribution’ to the UK economy. thebigword, one of the world’s largest interpreting and translating companies and a major supplier to the UK’s public sector, says it’s ready and ‘geared up’ to support Government agencies and businesses…

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