Funding

North West Leadership & Management Advisory Service

There is a grant available via the Learning and Skills Council and the North West Development Agency to support additional, relevant, challenging learning and development activities for leaders, senior managers or key decision makers in companies across the North West.

The leaders/key managers must be based and work in the

North West and have not previously accessed any LSC Leadership and Management funding. 

The amount of funding available relates to the number of UK paid employees:

�                       between 5 and 249 UK employees, the funding is available for 7 Managers, up to a maximum of £7,000.

�                       between 249 and 999 UK employees, the funding is available for 6 Managers, up to a maximum of £6,000.

The funding does require a financial contribution from the employer and this is approximately 1/3 of the total cost of the training.  E.g. for a single manager to receive the maximum £1000 grant then the employer must contribute £500 towards the total of the £1500 training cost.

Funding will be worked out on a company basis and your advisor will give you more specific information.

Each applicant/manager must be willing to undertake an initial diagnostic assessment, to complete a Personal Development Plan and an Application for Funding Document.  These documents must be completed with an Advisor prior to the learning activity taking place.

All the development activities must start, be paid for and the funding claimed back within 90 calendar days of the date placed on the Personal Development Plan.

One final contractual obligation in order for the funding to be released is the completion of an evaluation form relating to the development activities within the 90 days mentioned above.

 Funding can be used to access a wide variety of development activities including:

�                       Coaching

�                       Mentoring

�                       Qualifications

�                       Non-qualifications based training.

It can be used to support HE provision, for example Foundation Degrees, M.B.A.’s, Post-graduate certificates/diplomas, Masters.

Please Note:

It can not be used for Statutory/Mandatory or technical training, membership fees, travel, equipment, accommodation or any ESF funded activities.  No individual Manager can receive more that £1,000 of grant support.  It is aimed at leaders/senior managers/key decision makers – supervisors and team leaders would not normally qualify for the L & M funding, there is funding available through Train to Gain, for example Team Leading Level 2 NVQ or NVQ Level 3 Management.

Skills Pledge

Today, training is more important than ever. Improving the skills of your staff during the economic downturn is the best way to ensure organisations are as resilient as possible. 

Whats more, employers whose staff have the skills to offer high quality products and services most effciently will not only be best-placed to weather the downturn, but they can also take advantage quickly when the economy picks up again.

Please click here for more information regarding the skills pledge