Skills & Training

Developing Your People

Skills Bootcamps

What are Skills Bootcamps? 

Skills Bootcamps are funded training opportunities for businesses looking to upskill their staff, for employed people to increase their skills to upskill in the workplace or for job seekers to learn new skills and fast track to an interview with a local employer.

Skills Bootcamps are part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping everyone gain skills for life, offering bespoke training solutions to bridge existing skills gaps within high demand sectors. Funded through the Department for Education and forming part of the National Skills Fund, Skills Bootcamps place the employer at the Centre of training and development.

Skills Bootcamps:

  • Flexible courses of up to 16 weeks, giving people the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills.
  • Courses are typically at least 60 guided learning hours delivered at level 3-5 training.
  • Training available for:
      • Self employed.
      • Unemployed (includes training and fast-track to an interview with a local employer).
      • Employer supported employees in the public, private and voluntary sectors.
      • Employed learners looking for a new opportunity or sector change.
  • Opportunity for local businesses to fill vacancies, support interviews and recruitment new trainees looking to thrive.

Costs:

  • Skills Bootcamps are always fully funded to the learner where they are unemployed, looking to re-skill or are self-employed.
  • There is no cost to employers in recruiting individuals who have completed a Skills Bootcamp. Employer participation is at the heart of the Skills training.
  • Employers contribute to the cost of training if they want to use Skills Bootcamps to train their existing employees – large employers (over 250+ employees) contribute 30% of the cost, and small or medium employers (SMEs up to 250 employees) contribute 10%.
  • Existing employees will need time to study and attend classes depending on their working hours and status and the flexibility of the course, so employers will need to support this and commit to the training.

Information on Upcoming Skills Bootcamps

Skills Bootcamp in Leadership & Management for the Visitor Economy
Start Date 11th November
Website https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/cpd-and-short-courses/business/skills-bootcamp-in-leadership-and-management-for-the-visitor-economy/
Application link –  https://salesforce-eu.123formbuilder.com/form-74550/skills-bootcamps-in-leadership-management-for-the-visitor-economy

Skills Bootcamp in Project Management
Start Date – 23rd Sept
Website – https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/cpd-and-short-courses/business/project-management-skills-bootcamp/
Application link – https://salesforce-eu.123formbuilder.com/form-74543/skills-bootcamps-in-project-management
Info session – https://salesforce-eu.123formbuilder.com/form-75337/skills-bootcamp-pm-info-sessions

Skills Bootcamp in Supply Chain and Procurement
Start Date 22nd October
Website –  https://www.cumbria.ac.uk/study/courses/cpd-and-short-courses/business/Skills-Bootcamp-in-Supply-Chain-and-Procurement/
Application link – https://salesforce-eu.123formbuilder.com/form-75192/skills-bootcamp-in-supply-chain-and-procurement

Skills Bootcamps in Cumbria

Cumbria LEP has identified 13 unique projects to support organisations, sector representative groups, employers and/or delivery partners in Cumbria Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) area to address skills shortages.

The projects will deliver flexible training programmes for adults (19+), delivered by a range of quality assured training providers. The flexible approach allows adults to train around existing commitments.

Skills Bootcamps are free (to the learner), flexible courses of up to 16 weeks, giving people the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills and fast-track to an interview with a local employer.

How to get involved?

You can get involved in Skills Bootcamps in one or all of the following ways:

  • Support your employees to upskill or retrain through Skills Bootcamps to help them progress in your organisation or recruit new employees who have completed Skills Bootcamps.
  • Find Skills Bootcamps relevant to your sector that are currently being delivered. You can recruit from these or co-design bespoke Skills Bootcamps with training providers in order to fill your skills shortages.

Current courses can be viewed here: Skills Bootcamps | Cumbria LEP (CLEP) (thecumbrialep.co.uk)

Download the brochure here: Skills Bootcamps