Funding Opportunity from the Workforce Development Programme

The Workforce Development Programme is funded by Welsh Government and provides 50% grant funding to organisations based in Wales to help with their training and development costs.

Your company could be entile up to £6,000 if your organisations have 2 or more staff which have been operating for over 12 months. An application to join the programme is quick and easy - it only takes 10 minutes.

Consultants Online will handle all the paperwork for you. The service is free.

£1,000 of the grant can be used for general training and development needs. The other (up to) £5,000 must be used for Leadership and Management training.

For more information, please contact us on Cardiff: 0292 115 6603 for more details:

http://www.careerchangewales.co.uk

Workforce Development Programme

The Workforce Development Programme is funded by Welsh Assembly Government and provides 50% grant funding to organisations based in Wales to help with their training and development costs. Up to £6,000 is available to organisations with 2 or more staff which have been operating for over 12 months. The application to join the programme is quick and easy - it only takes 10 minutes and the service is free.

£1,000 of the grant can be used for general training and development needs. The other (up to) £5,000 must be used for Leadership and Management training.

These are just a few of the typical training courses you can access:

Business Management Training: Associated Training:

Leadership & Management Programme Telephone Skills

Managing People Marketing Skills

Team Building Customer Service

Coaching your Staff Project Management

Supervisor Skills Health & Safety

Managing Conflict Business Planning

Presentation Skills Finance

Recruitment & Selection Managing Key Accounts

Appraisal Skills Performance Management

Quality Management

Investors in People (IIP)

‘Investors in People’ is a proven business improvement framework that can significantly improve financial performance, profitability, productivity and increase employee involvement and focus. Independent research has proved this and our clients, from the smallest to the largest, also agree.

The UK’s Leading Business Improvement Tool

‘Investors in People’ has grown to be the UK’s leading people management business improvement tool because it delivers improved performance to thousands of organisations. Currently almost seven million employees in over 35,000 organisations have achieved ‘Investors in People’ recognition. And an amazing 3,000 of these have been recognised for ten or more years.

Investors in People Framework
The ‘Investors in People’ framework has three core principles:

Plan: Develop strategies to improve performance
Do: Take action to improve performance
Review: Evaluate and improve performance

For each of these activities Investors in People provides clear guidance on what you need to be doing to get the best from your people. We recognise that every organisation is unique, but that effective leadership and management always involves motivating, developing, involving and communicating with people. This is not just about getting a badge on the wall, but helping you to address your business issues.

GO Wales Graduate Training And Development Fund

Small to medium sized businesses in Wales can claim up to £1,500 towards the cost of training graduate staff members through the GO Wales programme.

We are able to fund training that will provide a clear benefit to a business in Wales. Once an application has been approved GO Wales can potentially fund half of the cost of the course up to £1,500 per eligible graduates.

Requirements:

You must be a small to medium sized business employing less than 250 staff.
Your business must be based in Wales.
The funding is only available for graduate staff (the participant must have a degree, HND or equivalent qualification of NQF level 4 or above).
The training must cost a minimum of £175 including VAT.
The funding must provide a clear benefit to the business.

You can make an application on behalf of any graduate working in the business providing they meet the requirements listed above.

Funding for courses in National Qualification Framework (NQF) level 1-3

For courses at NQF level 1-3 or courses which are not qualification bearing; GO Wales can fund 50% of the cost up to a maximum of £500 and the business would fund the remainder.

We can fund training for short courses in the following categories:

Business, Management & Leadership
Environmental
IT
Science, Technology & Engineering
Languages
Equality and Diversity

Examples of courses GoWales have recently funded include; presentation skills, short marketing courses, and Microsoft IT courses.

The GO Wales Graduate Training and Development Fund offers financial support for graduates working in Welsh-based SMEs. Up to £1500 available per person to put towards training costs. For more information contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or visit www.gowales.co.uk/training