If businesses are to be successful they need to compete, and to compete they need skilled employees.

How do you make sure your employees have the right skills to do the best job?

The Train to Gain service offers you free, impartial advice, matches your training needs with training providers and makes sure that training and support are delivered to meet your objectives.

It's designed to help businesses like yours solve the problems they might face when identifying training needs and choosing the right solutions.

What Train to Gain gives you
Train to Gain can improve your productivity and competitiveness. The service works in three main ways, it will:

• Provide you with a completely impartial, free and independent assessment, provided by an independent Skills Broker
• Help you choose the most suitable training providers and recommend Skills training solutions that fit your business.
• Help you get the best value for money from your investment. As well as helping you find the right training solutions, the service will identify the best way to pay for your training by identifying and recommending any available funding.

Train to Gain Funding
As well as helping you access other sources of funding, the Train to Gain service can also provide some funding itself.

This includes:

• Free training to help your employees gain their first, full Level 2 qualification
• A wide range of training for low-skilled employees
• The possibility of a contribution to wage costs for companies with less than 50 employees - to cover the cost of the time spent in training.

If you would like to discuss Train to Gain further and possibly arrange for a Skills Broker to contact you, contact the Business First team on Tel: (01793) 498404 or via our online contact form.

For more information on the Train to Gain scheme:

• Employers (up to 5000 employees)
  0845 600 9 006 or www.businesslink.gov.uk/traintogain
• Employers (5000+ employees)
  024 7682 5815 or http://skillsfundingagency.bis.gov.uk/employers/
• Learners/individuals – Careers Advice Service
  0800 100 900 or www.careersadvice.direct.gov.uk