The Stoke-on-Trent Skills Hub, funded by Stoke-on-Trent City Council and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, provides impartial skills advice and brokerage support to SMEs, social enterprises, and early-stage start-ups across Stoke-on-Trent to help to upskill their workforce and support their economic growth.

The Hub aims to deliver the following main initiatives:

• Training Needs Analysis (TNA) for businesses of all sizes to understand their skills challenges and issues.
• Skills brokerage services, where businesses will be directed to training courses (accredited and non-accredited).
• A Skills Grant (up to £500) will also be available for businesses to access to cover the costs of any non-accredited training courses to support the upskilling of their workforce.
• Apprenticeship brokerage services, where our advisor will capture information on businesses' levy status during TNA and support levy-paying businesses who are interested in transferring underspent levy to non-levy paying businesses.

To find out more about the Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Skills Hub please click below.