Helping connect Lancashire businesses with funded training to support recruitment and upskilling

For over a decade the Lancashire Skills and Employment Hub has been bringing together businesses, schools, training providers, universities, and employers to help identify Lancashire’s skills and employment priorities and drive prosperity and growth in the region.

Becoming involved can provide businesses with a better understanding of their workforce and skills needs. Providing impartial advice on key skills and employment initiatives in Lancashire, as well as helping to improve your recruitment processes through accessing a pool of students who offer enthusiasm and fresh perspectives to the business. Lancashire Skills Pledge

Free training

Signing up to the Lancashire Skills Pledge opens the door to find out more about Lancashire’s key skills and training initiatives. All this is run by the Lancashire Skills and Employment Hub, an independent strategic team, which works with partners to identify skills gaps and to secure funding to support training initiatives like Skills Bootcamps which offer free, or very low cost, skills courses to employed and unemployed people across the whole of Lancashire.

Sara Gaskell, the Manager of the Lancashire Skills and Employment hub explained: “I It is essential that any training delivered meets business needs and offers Lancashire residents pathways into employment.

Using a robust evidence base and the analysis of current and future employment requirements and by talking regularly to businesses about skills gaps we can ensure skills offered are aligned with local needs.

“We are here to support the residents and businesses of Lancashire offering impartial advice and access to wider partners." she said.

Back to employment

The Lancashire Skills and Employment Hub aims to also support the growth of Apprenticeships across Lancashire by offering businesses impartial advice and guidance and by making introductions to Apprenticeship partners who can support the business further.

Call out to businesses

So how can your business benefit by investing in skills and training? Lancashire Skills and Employment hub is calling on businesses to sign up to the Lancashire Skills Pledge which will give them access to impartial advice from experts across a number of initiatives. Benefits to signing up to the Skills Pledge also includes:

Funded courses to upskill your staff, from bespoke numeracy courses to Skills Bootcamps offering technical training

Support to recruit and widen your recruitment pool

Build a future pipeline of talent

Provides evidence of meeting social value outcomes in Lancashire

Personal development for your team

External validation of your business’s Corporate Social Responsibility activity

Positive publicity for your business

Gain connections with Lancashire’s Universities

Support employment opportunities for care leavers

By signing up to the Lancashire Skills Pledge you can gain access to impartial support which will give your business recognition for the things it does to upskill, recruit, and inspire the people of Lancashire, sign up to the Lancashire Skills Pledge and see how you could benefit.

We are delighted to be sponsors of the Lancashire Apprenticeship Awards and encourage you to put forward your nominations by visiting www.lancashireapprenticeshipawards.co.uk by the closing date of 26th March