Powering our future workforce

Apprentice Factory

South Ribble Borough Council Apprentice Factory provides impartial, specialist support to businesses, people considering a career change and students planning their future careers, by providing a comprehensive and complete range of skills and training advice and guidance in a one-stop-shop.

The Apprentice Factory offers your business impartial advice and support in finding the best solutions for skills and workforce development needs. We can help with recruitment support, local labour market information and guidance on affordable training options for your workforce. Let us save you time by connecting you directly with the right provider.

If you are considering a career change, the Apprentice Factory can offer you guidance on skills support, local apprenticeships and training and routes to alternative employment opportunities in growing areas of the economy.

For students planning their future careers, the Apprentice Factory offers you information, advice and guidance about future employment opportunities locally, the skills required by employers and career progression routes including the apprenticeships that are available, right up to degree level.

South Ribble Apprentice Factory will support local businesses to create quality apprenticeships, ensuring that the skills supply is appropriate to local skills demands and helping local people to access and benefit from the new job opportunities being created through economic growth in South Ribble.

Developing tomorrows workforce today……

Businesses

The Apprentice Factory will offer your business bespoke support to help you to upskill and develop your employees to meet the current and future skills needs of your business in a complex and rapidly changing world.

We can:

• Help you to find the right apprenticeships for your business.
• Support you to meet your workforce skills needs by discussing and researching the best training solutions for your business,connecting you directly with the right providers.
• Promote your business skills needs to young people in schools, who are planning their future careers, inspiring them to apply to your business for employment.
• Link your business with digital training opportunities, enabling your workforce to acquire the skills to become digitally connected.
• Support your talent acquisition through recruitment events and promotion.
• Help simplify the process of managing an apprenticeship through the Governments digital account system.
• Help you to navigate through multiple training offers by providing one-stop advice, bespoke to your business needs.
• Identify and help you access any financial support available from the Government.
• Connect you with leadership and management training to enable you to lead, inspire and nurture your workforce.
• Benefit your business by saving your time, making the right contacts, simplifying the processes and helping you recruit apprentices who are right for your business.

Talk to us and let us take the work out of meeting your skills needs.

Phone: 01772 625567

Apprentice Factory 

South Ribble Borough Council Apprentice Factory provides impartial, specialist support to businesses, people considering a career change and students planning their future careers by providing a comprehensive and complete range of skills and training advice and guidance in a one-stop-shop.

The Apprentice Factory offers businesses impartial advice and support in finding the best skills solutions for their workforce. We can help with recruitment support, local labour market information and guidance on affordable training options for your workforce.