Explore our full library of resources, toolkits and information to help you implement good employment practices against the Developing People pledge.
The BeOnBoard programme supports businesses and organisations to improve the diversity of their governing bodies and boards.
Bath Spa University's mentoring scheme aims to help their students bridge the gap between university and employment.
ACAS can help you with developing and improving your Equality and Diversity policies and procedures.
The HR Dept Bristol, Bath and North Somerset provides businesses with tailored and personal outsourced HR and Health and Safety services.
Centre for Capacity Building & Enterprise Development (CCBED) is a Bristol-based social enterprise organisation that helps people to increase their skills and develop their careers through mentoring and training courses that end-up building the learner’s confidence, knowledge and business potential.
Business in the Community (BITC) defines a responsible business as a healthy business and offer a series of resources to help you make the pledge.
BITC's toolkit sets out how business can take a strategic approach to recognising and developing essential skills using the Skills Builder Universal Framework.
Employers should do all they reasonably can to create an environment and recruitment process where people feel safe and comfortable to talk about disability.
The West of England Combined Authority's Workforce for the Future programme provides free tailored, in-depth support to make sure employees have access to the skills, training and support to drive business growth.
The programme provides fully funded support delivered by 11 expert partners, all of which can help you deliver against the criteria.
Browse through the services on the right hand side.
Bath College provides enhanced support for businesses. Further education colleges give you access to future talent and industry-specific training for your business. The college's training and funding experts will consult with your business and support you with access to apprenticeship programmes, student industry placements, funding workforce training and free recruitment support.
Bristol City Council's South Bristol Talent Pathway supports small local businesses in that area with easy access to HR and workforce development information, advice and resources to grow their workforce and develop their employee skills in order to meet future productivity challenges, contribute to industrial estate improvements as well as help build a thriving local economy.
Business West can support you to deal with immediate skills needs – with guidance on upskilling current staff to keep pace with change; attracting and recruiting new staff to meet demand; and ensuring you are able to nurture and retain your people along the way. They can also offer support to align your future workforce with your growth plans.
Business West, along with Bespoke Consultancy & Education Ltd, Connecting Learning Ltd and Skills for Care offer a tailored support programme for the Adult Social Care sector. This project supports leaders and managers of care organisations to build, develop and sustain their workforce. With leadership at its core, you will get detailed engagement and a framework of professional development, resources and targeted support.
City of Bristol College's Talent Accelerator initiative is a unique collaboration of the three West of England colleges to provide a region-wide solution to support SMEs in their future workforce planning and development, in identifying and sourcing the talent and skills training they need to innovate and prosper and to overcome any barriers to engaging with regional education providers.
Leonard Cheshire will increase capacity, knowledge and understanding of disability, supporting businesses to proactively employ disabled people more actively, confidently and successfully.
NCC's Digital Learning Factories programme will identify digital skills needs and give SMEs access to digital learning modules. The modules will be delivered in industrial scale, authentic, state of the art production environments at the National Composites Centre, the Bristol Robotics Lab and GKN’s Global Technology Centre.
WTPN's Apprenticeship Team is a specialist service harnessing the power a forty-strong consortium of local colleges, universities and specialist training providers. The service will revive business performance and productivity whilst creating new opportunities for residents.
Medium-level support will involve SMEs exploring their workforce and apprenticeship needs, gaining a clear understanding of the apprenticeship system, accessing independent 1-1 support and guidance on apprenticeships and being assigned a college or training provider through a managed handover to continue their apprenticeship journey.
High-level support will include one-to-one sessions, group workshops and bespoke support to help design and deliver workforce and apprenticeship development plans and apprentices starting within the business.
Weston College offer SMEs a clear plan of how to engage with an FE college partner through the Talent Accelerator and dedicated support to mobilise that plan. SMEs will also have the opportunity to actively engage with the college partner in a number of ways, including guest lectures, live project briefs for learners to participate in, work experience and industry placements, apprenticeships and training for the SME’s staff. The colleges will draw upon their talent pool of learners to select suitable candidates for placement and employment roles, matching candidate skills to opportunities.
The West of England Combined Authority Careers Hub will help you attract future talent to your business and inspire young people. Your tailored Action Plan will support you in developing your talent pipeline, raising brand awareness and developing your staff's skills. This is also an opportunity to address diversity and inclusion challenges.
University of West of England Bristol's (UWE) Digital Workforce for the Future Core Delivery Service engages with SMEs to enhance and improve digital skills provision across the region. Their service provides SMEs across all industry sectors with a deeper understanding of their digital skills needs and solutions for addressing them.
YTKO's multi-faceted support focuses on supporting local construction SMEs who are at risk of being displaced due to the uptake and acceleration of Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and offsite solutions.
Discover skills, training and career support in the West of England to help your employees find their next step with Skills Connect. Or, read on to discover our collection of training courses.
Serco Employment Skills and Enterprise - Skills Support for the Workforce helps businesses to upskill their employees with training courses and qualifications to grow their business and boost the local economy.
HR Champions provide first class HR and Employment Law support and advice to UK businesses; operationally and strategically.
Bristol Management Centre creates learning and development opportunities for personal and career progression, and for businesses wishing to induct, train and develop staff members, through learning experiences which are engaging, relevant and rewarding.
Business in the Community (BITC) defines a responsible business as a healthy business. It is one that puts creating healthy communities and a healthy environment at the centre of its strategy to achieve long-term value. The Responsible Business Map guides members on a journey of continuous improvement, working across the whole responsible business agenda.
Become a confident, credible and competent manager with management and career coaching and consultancy services delivered by Mayler Management Coaching. For the middle layer of management, including team leaders and supervisors – as well as owner managers.
Find Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) from Harvard, MIT, Microsoft and other top universities and institutions in subjects like computer science, data science, business and more.
Hewlett Rand tailor in-house business development skills training programmes, which include key principles, tools and skills to achieve greater success in a variety of areas.
Enterprise Nation have partnered with Salesforce to offer small businesses the sales skills needed to succeed. Delivered by a network of expert trainers via e-learning, online events and coaching.
SETsquared Bath offer workspace, business acceleration and training.
Business West is a not-for-profit company which offers business support to start-up and growing businesses. A key partner of the West of England Combined Authority, they offer a plethora of support to help you make the pledge.
