This week I have been visiting a number of our members and helping them access the Women in Work training scheme (£400 funded out of £650 training per person). We have accessed potentially £6000 for our members this week. Not all that training will be supplied by CATraining Ltd. We just do not have a breadth of access to cover everything - and when that is the case we will say and try and point people in the right direction.
We are also asked why, if we are not getting the business are we putting effort into this project. To confirm, we do not get any commission or referral fees. The reason we do it is quite simple we are historically the organisation that landbased industries in the area should come to about their training needs. We hope that by charging a nominal membership fee we can cover the cost of researching identifying and helping our member customers on an impartial basis.
To follow on from that we are trying to see what benefit their is from the latest government statement on training- see this statement - we hope it may make Train to Gain easier for you to access but at present we don't know. We will announce any news we find out here first.
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Chris
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
October - back from the fields
Judging by the amounts of e-mails and telephone calls a lot of our customers are catching up with work outside and thinking about training programmes for the winter and spring. With the recent events and uncertainty in the financial world it seems that many people are taking the view that a well trained team will mean they are better placed for the future.
We have been taking a look at some of our traditional courses and updating the materials used to present them. Those attending our Manual Handling and Forklift/Telescopic courses will start to see a fresh look as we move away from some of those older training films. Despite going to industry for sponsorship we have had to fund this directly ourselves and we offer a big thank you to those businesses that have allowed us access to their premises to film. We like to think that by providing modern up to date situations for our courses we are helping present training that is relevant to your business in 2008 not 1988!
Our printed newsletter has just been mailed out along with a letter for our members updating on what we have and what we plan to get up to.
For the most up to date information on course availability we are continuing to update the list to the right of this post. When I have sorted out the technology we will have a full calender available on line as well to show which courses are available and when.
We have been taking a look at some of our traditional courses and updating the materials used to present them. Those attending our Manual Handling and Forklift/Telescopic courses will start to see a fresh look as we move away from some of those older training films. Despite going to industry for sponsorship we have had to fund this directly ourselves and we offer a big thank you to those businesses that have allowed us access to their premises to film. We like to think that by providing modern up to date situations for our courses we are helping present training that is relevant to your business in 2008 not 1988!
Our printed newsletter has just been mailed out along with a letter for our members updating on what we have and what we plan to get up to.
For the most up to date information on course availability we are continuing to update the list to the right of this post. When I have sorted out the technology we will have a full calender available on line as well to show which courses are available and when.
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