Business Development & Skills
Focuses on getting your business access to the support available. By working closely with our partners including Business Link and local colleges, we will connect you to training, information and advice to support all aspects of your business.
Business Skills:
- Brockenhurst College
Brockenhurst is a Beacon College, one of the most successful in the UK and judged to be 'outstanding' by Ofsted, with excellent results and first class facilities. Situated in the heart of the New Forest National Park, they offer a wide range of courses and training for around 2,500 sixth form and international students, a large number of employers and 8,000 adult learners.
- Totton College
Totton College deliver training to you that meets the specific needs of your organisation and its' employees. As a Centre of Vocational Excellence, Totton College Services to Business specialise in providing high quality training for business. Services to Business can provide maximum benefit to you at minimum cost using a wide range of delivery methods.
- Train to Gain
Train to Gain has been launched across England by the Learning and Skills Council and is a development from the highly successful Employer Training Pilots. It can help businesses improve their productivity and competitiveness by ensuring that staff have the right skills to do the best job.
- Southern Entrepreneurs
Southern Entrepreneurs is an Eastleigh Borough Council project to help small businesses across Hampshire to start up, and existing small businesses to grow and prosper. The service is local and offers businesses the personal service lacking in some larger initiatives. FREE membership is limited to sole traders, franchises and small businesses based in the south of Hampshire. They offer training, (which is either FREE or heavily subsidised depending on where your business is based )or just motivational and networking opportunities if you prefer.
- Solent Education Business Partnership
Working in partnership with business, schools, colleges and the wider community in Southampton and South West Hampshire, we broker mutually beneficial relationships and facilitate learning programmes that help young people and adults to develop their employment skills and understanding about the workplace. For employers the sense of giving something back to the community positively affects morale whilst developing the attributes and skills of your staff and business.