More than 150 people looking for work and training opportunities have visited the latest jobs fair at Battersea Power Station.

The event aimed to connect local people with businesses and contractors working at the Power Station so that they can be matched with jobs and training opportunities.

The regeneration of Battersea Power Station is creating 20,000 jobs over the coming years and through Wandsworth WorkMatch and BASE, which is Battersea Power Station’s own training academy, more than 400 local people have found jobs or apprenticeships at the Power Station.

Councillor Kim Caddy, Wandsworth Council's cabinet member for employment, skills and business who officially opened the jobs fair, said: “This famous building and the surrounding former industrial estate is now creating over 20,000 jobs and training opportunities for local people, as well as opportunities for local businesses to become part of the supply chain and prosper from the regeneration taking place on a site that had previously been derelict for 30 years.”

Jobs and training opportunities range from work at the shops and restaurants which are already operating at Circus West Village, through to construction jobs and work involved in the management and upkeep of the development itself.

Sarah Banham, communities director at Battersea Power Station, said: “Job fairs are a really important way of connecting people directly to the organisations which can offer employment or training opportunities at Battersea Power Station.

"A few years ago, barely a handful of people came to work at this derelict site, but now as construction is underway and the first shops, restaurants and offices have opened we are able to help people with career opportunities that simply wouldn’t have existed before.”

More than half a million people have visited the new riverwalk at Circus West Village since it opened last year.