Specialist recruitment company Macildowie has used its network of contacts to save 14 jobs in Leicester. The team at Macildowie stepped in when 14 clerical candidates were made redundant in the city, and secured them jobs at Consumer Money Matters, a subsidiary of Carrington Carr Holdings, also based in the city.

For Macildowie director, James Taylor, who is based at the company's Leicester office, this was a particularly pleasing project to work on. He explains: "Many of the 14 had worked for the previous company for a long time and the concept of suddenly having to find a job was quite alien to them. We were fortunate to work for Carrington Carr locally, which is a business on the upward curve, and we were able to re-home the candidates there."

Carrington Carr and Consumer Money Matters (CMM) specialise in activities such as will and estate planning and a range of other financial services. 

Antony Crossman, commercial director at Carrington Carr Holdings, says: "We've been working with Macildowie for over ten years now, and this is a perfect example of the way they can link employees and businesses together.

"When Macildowie heard that there were to be redundancies at the other company, they used their contacts to get CMM through the door, so that we could tell those who were looking for jobs about our employment opportunities."

James added: "What we've helped to achieve on this project isn't new. We have such a broad range of clients, that these opportunities often come up but not in such great numbers. It is nice that we were in the perfect position not only to secure the livelihoods of the employees, but help a client on the upward curve to recruit."

With offices in Leicester, Nottingham, Derby and Northamptonshire, in addition to financial recruitment, Macildowie also provides specialist recruitment services for the HR and procurement and supply chain sectors.