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Funding Available

At The People Development Team we strive to identify funding solutions that provide organisations with financial support to achieve their training and development goals.

Current funding opportunities are listed below:

Leadership and management funding for SME organisations

Leadership and Management initiatives are enabling organisations with 5 - 249 employees to access funding for the continuous professional development of a strategic manager or Director and, where appropriate, their teams. Up to £1000 funding is available - the first £500 is fully funded and a further £500 is available providing it is matched £ for £ by the client organisation.

Professional development opportunities that clients could use their funding to access include:

The Beyond 2010 initiative for SME organisations

Organisations with up to 250 employees in the East of England are accessing funding from the Beyond 2010 initiative to get inspired, refocus and energise their business plans.

The funding is being made available to these key sectors:

automotive and high-tech manufacture
creative sector
financial services
food and drink processing
life sciences and healthcare
low carbon and sustainable technologies
social enterprise
sustainable communities and the built environment
tourism and Olympics 2012
transport gateways
ICT

This initiative is supported by Essex County Council and funded by the East of England Development Agency and the European Social Fund.

Our clients, for example EDME, have utilised their funding to book an in-house development programme whilst others have been booking on to our ILM accredited open programmes in leadership and management or workplace coaching.

Working with the NHS

The People Development Team is working with NHS Trusts and Hospitals across England to deliver leadership and management solutions to both clinical and non-clinical staff.

AMSPAR, the Association of Medical Secretaries, Practice Managers, Administrators and Receptionists, has recognised the value of the qualifications that we deliver and offers successful learners a certificate of attendance and access to membership.

The Trusts and Hospitals are in some cases utilising MPET/JIF funding to access our training.

Examples of our current delivery include:

Change Leadership - ILM accredited 1 day workshops for bands 1 to 9
ILM Level 2 Award in Team Leading
ILM Level 3 Award in First Line Management
Facilitated senior management residential programme

Women and Work project

The Women and Work Sector Pathways initiative, managed by the UK Commission, aims to enable women to progress in traditionally male-dominated industries. Working with a number of sector skills councils, we have successfully developed and delivered leadership and managment programmes to aspiring and current women managers across the UK.

Some of sector skills councils who have recently offered funding have included:

LANTRA - The skills sector for agriculture (crop & livestock), environmental conservation, fencing, game and wildlife, landscape horticulture, botanic, exterior/interior and sports turf, production horticulture, land-based engineering and trees and timber industries.
Energy and Utilities Skills - The sector skills council for the power, gas, waste management, renewable energy and water industries.

Our 3 day leadership development programme, Growing Great Leaders, is just one of the programmes that we have developed and delivered to women with access to this funding.
If your organisation falls outside of the sectors mentioned, please still get in touch and we can look for other funding opportunities available.
Click here to find out more about our up-coming open programme.

Questions?

If you want to talk to us about your situation, call us on 01920 485569, send us a message here, or email us at info@people-development-team.com.