Funding for training - it could be for you!

Owens_girl:
£1.6m European money for skills still available.

Organisations that provide learning and skills in Essex have another opportunity to submit proposals that will boost the skills of individuals and the productivity of businesses in the county.

This means that Essex haulage companies can in cooperation with a training provider, arrange cost free traning of drivers and other staff. One company which has already successfully taken up this opportunity is Rochford based Baltic Distribution.
Read here !

The Learning and Skills Council, Essex (LSC), the organisation that exists to make England better skilled and more competitive, is looking to allocate £1,679.794 to fund projects that support specific priorities.

Funding will be for projects to run from July 2005 to June 2007. This represents one of the last opportunities for accessing ESF funding under the current Objective 3 round.

The Round 3b prospectus and application form will be available on the website at www.lsc.gov.uk/essex or from the ESF helpline on 01245 550141 from 16 February 2005.
Any organisation that needs to find prospective bidding partners can find a list of organisations on the website. For further information contact our helpdesk at esfessex.helpdesk@lsc.gov.uk or phone 01245 550141.
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For further information contact Nicki Uden on 01245 550103. nicki.uden@lsc.gov.uk or Anne Sherer at Mosaic Publicity 01206 548100.

Check it out !

Now, Essex wonnabee’s, - go get that license !

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Jo

Thanks for the link Jo. This may be of tremendous help to someone somewhere, made a sticky for the foreseeable future . Lib.

One such project is “girls in gear” which is a scheme to encourage females to come into the industry at all levels.

Opportunities include LGV training on rigids and artics, with female instructors. There’s also ADR, CPC & FLT.

Colleges in my area that do this are: Handbridge (Chester) St Helens and City College Manchester amongst others. There’s no fees, no loans and no nonsense, just a few forms and then hey presto- you’re in!

As Owens_girl says, this is funded from the European Union, so there’s no excuse for wannabes, ESPECIALLY FEMALES, not to attempt any of these qualifications. You’ve nothing to lose.

One advantage that most other training providers can’t match is that, because it’s done at/via a college, there is access to specialists in the assessment and assistance of candidates with dyslexia.

I can supply some contact details to those who are interested.

NOTE TO MODERATOR:- Please don’t view this as a commercial advert, it is specifically designed to target a particular group of people to attract them into the industry. For that group, there are no fees. In the interests of fairness and balance, I’d point out that those people not meeting the criteria for free courses can still partake. This is because education must be open to all. So it’s only slightly commercial Just a bit.