£4M to boost your employees’ skills June 15, 2007
Posted by Rich Spragg in Business, Knowsley, Liverpool, Merseyside, News, Sefton, St Helens, Training, Wirral.trackback
£4M of funding announced today will boost the skills of businesses across Merseyside. The funding, provided by the Learning and Skills Council and European Social Fund, is available to all small and medium sized businesses in every business sector.
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Community College and Blackburne House, have formed Mersey Skills Network, a consortium that will be the first point of call for business training. Companies are urged to apply quickly, the funding offer lasts just 12 months. Businesses from sole traders to firms employing up to 250 staff are all eligible.
SkillWorks provides up to 60% of the costs of the costs of employee training for companies in all sectors across the Merseyside region. All of the partners in the Mersey Skills Network consortium have an excellent track record in successfully distributing Skillworks funding and delivering training to businesses across the region for the past four years.
Kevin Griffiths, Mersey Skills Consortium Project Manager said: “With partners of this calibre, Mersey Skills Network is in an excellent position to improve and develop the skills base on Merseyside and contribute to the region to remaining competitive in global market. All four consortium members have previously worked independently to support Skillworks and are all experienced in assisting businesses to maximise the training offer. This further funding is a superb opportunity and I urge all eligible businesses to take advantage of the funding.”
Ian McKay, a Reception Officer at Merseyside Police Federation, achieved his Customer Service Level Three NVQ this year. He commented: “Gaining this qualification has improved my confidence.”
The course was funded by Skillworks and Federation Centre Manager, Paula McIntosh-Kemp says: “Skillworks has been really useful as we don’t have a big training budget. It has funded training for most of our staff from food hygiene courses to higher degrees.”
“I’m delighted with the achievements of our employees and I’m keen to continue using Skillworks funding to further support our staff development programme.”
Find out more at the Mersey Skills Network website: http://www.merseyskills.co.uk/
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Hi my name is Sue Brown, i run a small buisness of two general stores, i wish to extend one of my stores into selling fresh sandwiches, at the moment i have no qualifications in the food department but am egar to find out how to go about courses to help me run my buisness sucessfully, hope you can oblige with thanks. Sue.
Hi Sue,
You’ll need to get in touch with the people who run this scheme, Mersey Skills Network, their details are on the following: http://www.merseyskills.co.uk/livesite/contact-us/
Best of Luck
Rich