Hi All
Without getting into some debate, I placed the dates on the forum to raise awareness of the NVQ funding and course, the current Train to Gain funding through the LSC is being re-directed by the Govenment and greatly reduced as we predicted last year. The awareness on the forum is to try and facilitate forum users with funding. This provides forum users a chance of gaining a recognised qualification in their profession.
I have had some positive responses so far and would like to thank those individuals for their interest.
I will answer the debate on Cornwall for you:
Annually we are allocated a learner fund within our partnership with South Thames and Merton College, we have the UK sole contract to provide the NVQ in window cleaning. Last years total learner capacity was reduced from 600 to 300 learners.
Areas like Birmingham, Central London, Leeds, Bristol, Southampton, Manchester, and others was oversubscribed with interest, therfore areas such as Cornwall that we would have liked to facilitate was withdrawn due to insufficient numbers, this has nothiong to do with profit as mentioned by Dave Morris. I would at this point thank and confirm that David has been very proactive and behind the NVQ and we would very much like to provide support to him if we can
David advised last year he wanted 6 places which if I remember was reduced to 4 and two other companies put names forward but nearer the date pulled out their window cleaners asking if we could change dates. I personally spent alot of time on Cornwall and trying to facilitate for the area as I am sure Dave can remember
Our funding contract for 2010 at present stands at 300 learners and we have already secured and reserved places for 50%, please note our marketing starts next week for this year and will end at Windex in March so we can assure we will have sufficient numbers
Our date for South West is to be held in Plymouth and we would welcome all forum users to be first to secure training spaces before we market the area direct. Plymouth 6th September
We aim to secure additional funding during 2010 and if successful we would look at any requested location as long as there are 10-15 learners willing to commit to taking the course.