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For Employers

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Your business is our business

Our Business Innovation & Enterprise Team has forged strong links with companies of all sizes throughout our area and beyond. Our team understands how your business works, and we’re committed to helping it prosper and grow.

More and more businesses are discovering that training is essential to their future success and their ability to survive the economic downturn.

Here you can read more about the type of training we provide, and the clients we work with.

Our courses: real-work experience

Our courses include real-work experience to bring trainees real-world facts of life in business and industry. From ‘on-the-job’ training to short courses specifically tailored to your organisation, you can feel confident that our flexible, relevant training will help your business to grow.

Bespoke vocational and professional training

Our Employer Services team can offer you a range of vocational and professional training programmes and services tailored to suit your business:

Apprenticeships - we train over 700 apprentices every year.
Short training courses – industry specific and competitively priced.
Bespoke training programmes, tailored to your business.
Vocational courses – our broad curriculum offers you the scope to tap into training courses across a wide range of subjects and levels.
Regulatory and legislative courses.
Consultancy - helping you to improve the profitability of your business through our Business Improvement Techniques courses

FREE No-Obligation Training Needs Analysis

Our first step is to find out about your business. One of our friendly Account Managers will come to you to assess your training needs. Typically this takes just an hour of your time.

Training Needs Analysis will identify both strategic and operational issues. Our indepth knowledge of funding will also help identify any financial support that may be available.

Further information

For an informal conversation on how we could help meet your training needs, please contact our Employers Services team:

Telephone: 020 8090 3020 (extn 7175, 7028, 7144, 7150)

Or contact us via our online enquiry form.

Business Innovation & Enterprise Team
Your business is our business.