1 Main Activity General Building Roofing Including Slating and Tiling

Main Activity General Building

Roofing including Slating and Tiling

Scaffolding

Building Repair and Maintenance

Suspended Ceiling Installation

Painting and Decorating Sealant Application Reinforced Concrete Civil Engineering Site Preparation or Groundworks Dry Lining and/ or Partition

Road Safety Marking

Plant Hire and Repair

Hard Landscaping and Paving

Joinery and Carpentry

Passive Fire Protection

House Building

Land Drilling

Asbestos Removal

Relocatable Partitioning

Liquid Waterproof Systems

Asphalt and Tar-Spraying

Demolition

Preparing/Fixing Stone for Building, including Stonemasonry

Hard Flooring

Fitted Kitchen/ Bedroom Installation

Alteration to a Building/ Part of a Building

Shopfitting

Plastering and/or Artexing

Netting and Rigging

Bricklaying/ Pointing

[General Building]

Project title Fund recipient Nation Amount Year Project Impact category Outcome awarded awarded duratio n Management and T. Manners and Sons North- £7,250 2017 13 • Improving • Safety and Management Safety Training Limited East months management training benefitted over 50 England and leadership employees skills • Training included Health and Safety for Directors, Safe • Productivity and Working at Height and new ways of Machine Training working • Demonstrated a commitment • New to the workforce by training qualifications 21 people over the age of 50 and courses • Improved the safety knowledge of staff and • Learning management resources Supervisory Timber Constructions South- £5,000 2017 18 • Improving • Built on previous training Training in Timber Limited East months productivity through a 5-day bespoke Crane Supervisors/ Slinger Construction England • Raising Signaller training course Sector standards • Upskilled 10 employees • Qualifying • Improved productivity and workers staff knowledge • Guaranteed to contractors that the workforce is

appropriately trained

Senior Site Project Services North £2,895 2017 15 • Improving • Upskilled staff in supervisory Supervisory Limited West months management attendance and increased the Training England and leadership number of supervisory attendance on sites skills • Increased productivity by • Qualifying overcoming a supervisory workers skills shortage • Improving • Completed the Level 6 NVQ productivity in Construction Operations • Expanding Management and an IPAF business course for powered access equipment

• Broadened business opportunities, as the qualifications allow them to tender for larger projects with larger companies Streetworks and LIP Construction Scotland £5,000 2018 12 • Improving • Bridged skills gaps, based on Towing Training Limited months productivity contractual obligations

• Qualifying • Upskilled 6 beneficiaries in street works, towing and workers HGV training • Reducing skills • Increased staff confidence gaps and morale • Expanding • Supported the expansion of business business, allowing the hire of • Better staff new starters welfare and morale

Management Warden Construction North- £10,000 2018 11 • Improving • Trained newly hired Training of Newly Limited East months management managers and supervisors to Hired Staff England and leadership required levels skills • Training involved NVQs in

• Improving Construction Management and Construction Site 4

productivity Operation • Progressing • Demonstrated a commitment careers to staff development by investing an additional • Qualifying £6,000 to CITB funding workers • Increased management effectiveness throughout a period of transition for the business Developing a Cornhill Building Scotland £7,475 2018 12 • Changing • Upskilled 33 employees Learning Culture Service Limited months industry culture through Health and Safety

• Improving health training

and safety • Increased employee morale • Qualifying • Improved workforce wellbeing and safety on-site workers • Changed company outlook • Improving on training, as the amount of productivity training has increased since, setting a precedent for a new organisational culture where learning is valued. Bespoke Site Jehu Project Services Wales £10,000 2018 11 • New • Completed a series of 23 Managers Limited months qualifications workshops based on the Development courses company’s 7 core themes Programme • Improving • Standardised the practises of site managers management • Site managers strengthened and leadership their relationships with senior skills managers • Improving • Helped to improve the productivity performance of workforce, including younger workers • Raising • Generated a culture of standards continuous personal development

Leadership Taylor Pearson East £4,175 2017 18 • Improving • Qualified management in the Programme Midlands, months management Level 7 NVQ in Construction England and leadership Senior Management skills • Trained workforce in teleporter qualifications to • Qualifying ensure success in future workers tendering • Reducing skills • Upskilled employees in a gaps range of skills, to strengthen • Improving workforce productivity • Increased productivity

Leadership and H Bell and Sons North- £5,000 2017 13 • Improving • Trained 5 members of senior Business Growth West months management management in the bespoke Programme England and leadership Bells Leadership Development Programme skills • Developed the strategic skills • Improving of senior management productivity • Converted the business from • Changing reactive to proactive industry culture • Instigated a culture of continuous learning • Better staff • Staff motivated to complete welfare and more training morale Business Manning Wales £7,493 2017 13 • Improving • 22 members of the workforce Improvement Construction Limited months management upskilled in operative and Programme and leadership management courses skills • Increased opportunities for career progression • Qualifying • Increased the amount of workers contracts won • Improving • Better able to meet and productivity exceed client expectation • Progressing careers 6

• Winning more work

Skills Square and Crescent Scotland £5,000 2017 18 • Improving • Upskilled 20 employees in Enhancement in Limited months management HR management, Mobile the Scottish and leadership Elevating Platforms Training (MEWPS) and Banksman Residential skills and Telehandler training Development • Qualifying • Reduced the need to engage Sector workers with external consultants • Improving • Enabled the organisation to

productivity increase self-sufficiency • Increasing staff • Improved employee retention engagement Reduced staff turnover • • Established a learning culture

Management John Perkins South- £5,000 2017 7 • Improving • Built on previous training with Development Construction West months management the National Federation of Programme England and leadership Builders skills • Trained workforce in managing staff, appraisals, • Improving corporate social responsibility productivity and policy reviews • Expanding • Training underpinned the business forward change in the company

Bid to Win' Style Building Limited South- £5,000 2017 7 • Improving • Completed a ‘Bid to Win’ Training East months productivity masterclass

England • Improving • Course content included: residential refurbishment, management renovation, extensions and and leadership new build construction skills • Improved staff motivation and • Better staff productivity 7

welfare and • Helped to develop a new morale business plan • Expanding • Changes to the business led business to an increase in clients

Diploma in Fire Worksmart Contracts Scotland £5,000 2018 12 • Qualifying • Upskilled and qualified 12 Door Education months workers employees in fire safety,

• Improving PASMA and IPAF

productivity • Updated employee • Better staff knowledge of health and safety requirements welfare and • Improved job satisfaction and morale job security • Improving health and safety

Senior H Bell and Sons North- £4,950 2018 4 • Improving • Delivered 12 half-day Management West months management workshops to 5 members of Team Training England and leadership Senior Management skills • Developed Senior Management Team • Improving (consistency in capitalisation productivity of SMT) • Changing • Training involved Business industry culture Development, Delegating and Strategic Thinking • Raising • Improved controlled growth standards management • Better staff • Organisation now more welfare and proactive and structured in morale winning work • Established a learning culture

• Staff more motivated to complete training

Project Support Quality Metalwork South- £2,850 2018 12 • Improving • Upskilled 20 employees Training Services Limited East months productivity through Health and Safety E-

England • Utilising digital Learning, IOSH Managing Safely and Abrasive wheel and new courses technology • Improved planning for larger • Qualifying projects workers • Increased Health and Safety • Improving health awareness on-site and safety • Improved team-work and • Better staff awareness of colleagues’ wellbeing welfare and morale

Employee Jistcourt (South Wales £9,748 2018 14 • Qualifying • Qualified 78 employees Academic and Wales) months workers alongside specialist training

Practical Training • Improving • Trained in Construction Management, Manual productivity Handling, Cable Avoidance • Better staff Tools (CAT) and Signal welfare and Generator training morale • Investment in staff improved staff morale • Changing industry culture • Increase staff competency and academic capabilities

Training Lambert-Gill Limited North- £2,125 2017 12 • Qualifying • Upskilled 25 employees in a Advancement East months workers range of health and safety

England • Improving related courses, including

productivity NEBOSH and PASMA • Better staff • Increased staff knowledge of health and safety and risk welfare and management morale • Improved staff morale and • Improving health confidence in their safety and safety • Training has increased • Progressing visibility of career progression 9

careers to trainees

Training for our GRD Building North- £3,360 2017 18 • Improving • Trained staff in the HR First Plant Contractors East months productivity Telehandler course and

Operator England • Improving cost Novice 360 machine training

efficiency • Increased the number of in-

house trained staff • Reduced costly delays for projects • Improved productivity Plant Training Compass North- £5,000 2018 7 • Qualifying • Upskilled 13 employees in Developments (NE) East months workers health and safety, and plant-

Limited England • Improving health based training • Training included Asbestos and safety Awareness, NVQ Level 2 in • Qualifying Plants Operations, as well as workers SMSTS training • Increased site safety, officially qualified staff in skills to honestly represent staff skills and expertise NVQ Level 6 in Carreg Construction Wales £4,101 2018 15 • Qualifying • Qualified one employee in Construction Limited months workers the NVQ Level 6

Management • Improving Construction Site Management course management • Increased the capabilities of and leadership the employee and enriched skills the workforce • Improving • Employee able to progress in productivity his career within the • Progressing organisation careers • Improved future career prospects of trainee and those they pass their

knowledge to

Health and Safety Islwyn Pugh Wales £4,720 2017 12 • Improving • Trained 35 employees in in Construction Construction months productivity health and safety, and

• Raising construction courses

standards • Courses included 360 • Qualifying Excavator training workers • Workforce now meets the • Better staff health and safety standards welfare and of clients and the industry morale • Improved client-contractor • Improving health relationship and safety • Expanding business Construction Site R P Tyson North- £7,500 2018 8 • Improving • Qualified 10 employees in a Management Construction Limited West months productivity Diploma in Construction Site

England • Improving Management

management • Enabled achievement of the and leadership CSCS Black Card skills • Improved opportunities for • Progressing career progression for 10 careers members of the management • Better staff team welfare and • Demonstrated a long-term morale commitment to trainees, who • Increasing staff entered the industry as retention apprentices

Managers and GMR Henderson Scotland £5,000 2018 6 • Improving • Improved business Supervisors months productivity strategies

CSCS Cards/ • Improving • Trained 6 managers in Level

NVQ's management 6 NVQs and leadership • This qualification enabled

skills employees to obtain CSCS • Better staff Black and Gold Cards welfare and • Enabled the company to morale tender for larger projects • Qualifying • The investment in the workers workforce improved staff • Increasing staff morale and increased staff retention retention • Expanding business Management Beardwell South- £5,000 2018 7 • Reducing skills • Developed the skills of 21 Skills Training Construction Limited East months gaps employees in 5 key topics, with the National England • Improving previously identified as weak Federation of management areas within the organisation Builders and leadership • Training covered: skills communication, • Raising sustainability, bidding, standards management, and wellbeing • Improving • Strengthened the workforce productivity by reducing knowledge gaps • Notable improvement in the performance of staff who had taken part in the project

Continuous Northmead North- £4,800 2019 2 • Expanding • Training ensured the Business Strategy Developments East months business competency of all staff in on- Training Limited England • Qualifying site machinery workers • Improved operational • Improving efficiency and reduced lag 12

health and times safety • Established continuous periodic business strategy training • This has proven a success on business improvement: for example, as well as increasing turnover, net profits rose from 3% to 18%

Safety Training to John Duff (Joinery) Scotland £2,220 2017 17 • Reducing skills • Training allowed the Increase Limited months gaps business to complete with a Competitiveness • Improving wider range of companies health and • Improved the organisation of safety the office via Office • Expanding Management training business • Increased the knowledge • Improving and awareness of health and management safety within the workforce and leadership through PASMA and IPAF skills training • Raising standards Site Supervisor Neville Special South- £5,000 2017 18 • Improving • The 4 employees who Training Projects Limited East months management completed the Diploma in England and leadership Site Supervision were able to skills deputise in the absence of • Increasing staff management in a confident retention and competent way • Progressing • Staff felt more valued since careers their training investment • Better staff • Beneficiary evidently using morale and the skills gained from training welfare 13 in day-to-day work.

[Roofing including Slating and Tiling] Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project duration Project type Outcome awarded awarded Upskilling in the Crown Roofing South £5,000 2018 12 months • Improving • Upskilled 10 employees Roofing Sector (Centres) Limited England productivity • Completed the Level 2 • Qualifying NVQ Roofing Slating and Tiling and Level 3 workers NVQ Occupational Work • Reducing Supervisor course skills gaps • Increased the average • Better staff number of skilled welfare and workers in the workforce morale • Invested an additional £4,650 to CITB funding, to complete the course Safety Training in M H South £4,950 2018 12 months • Qualifying • Upskilled 15 employees the Cladding Sector Massey Roofing & West workers in Slinger/ Signaller Cladding Limited England training to obtain • Changing industry relevant skills cards

culture • At least one operative in every gang is now a • Reducing crane slinger/ signaller skills gaps • Safety awareness has • Improving improved in the health and workforce, increasing safety the wellbeing of staff • Better staff welfare and morale

Health and Safety Central Roofing Wales £4,940 2017 18 months • Qualifying • Identified specific skills Training South Wales workers gaps in Health and Limited Safety and used funding • Improving to upskill 24 employees productivity in these targeted areas • Improving • Increased employee

health and safety standards and safety workforce wellbeing • Better staff • Empowered employees to work in line with welfare and health and safety morale standards • Reducing skills gaps Health and Safety Taylor Roofs Scotland £5,000 2017 12 months • Qualifying • Upskilled 61 Training workers beneficiaries in a range

• Improving of health and safety

productivity training • Improving • Modules included Asbestos Awareness, health and SMSTS, Abrasive Wheel safety and Fire Safety • Better staff • Organisation runs more welfare and professionally and safely morale since the training • Increased staff

confidence in their safety Accident Reduction Bracknell Roofing West- £5,445 2017 16 months • Improving • Upskilled 14 in Commercial Limited Midlands productivity beneficiaries in a range Roofing , • Qualifying of NVQs • Courses included England workers Construction Contract • Improving Operations, Slating and management Tiling, and an IOSH and Managing Safely module leadership • Increased skills competitiveness when • Reducing bidding for contracts • Reduced the number of skills gaps accidents • Improving • Training improved health and workforce safety and safety wellbeing

Mental Health First Alincourt Limited South £5,000 2018 13 months • Better staff • Tackled the issue of Aid Training England welfare and mental health in a male- morale dominated sector • 46 beneficiaries were • Reducing upskilled in a range of skills gaps health and safety • Changing training industry • 1 woman trained in culture Mental Health First Aid • Qualifying • Trained an additional 31 individuals by investing a workers further £2,497 to CITB • Improving funding. productivity

Upskilling and L. A. Hall Limited North- £4,800 2018 5 months • Improving • Invested an additional Safety Training East management £4,665 to CITB funding England and to upskill 50 personnel leadership • Courses included SMSTS, SSSTS, skills Asbestos Training and • Improving Abrasive Wheel Training productivity • Upskilled management • Improving to NVQ Level 6 health and qualifications safety • Due to increased demand for work, • Expanding employed more staff, business including an apprentice

Continuous Dukeries Roofing East- £3,000 2018 8 months • Changing • Trained 12 employees in Improvement Services Midlands industry Continuous Training , culture Improvement training • Motivated the employer England • Improving to plan further productivity development training in • Improving the future cost • Staff more engaged in 17

efficiency identifying problems • Raising • Innovative ideas standards suggested more frequently by trainees • Instigated a tighter focus on costs • Improved communication with contractors and customers Safety Training for Wensley Roofing North- £7,500 2017 14 months • Improving • Upskilled 90 employees Internal Staff and Limited East management in a variety of safety, Subcontractors England and supervisory and management courses leadership • Enabled operatives to skills benefit from NVQs with • Qualifying minimal cost to the workers business • Improving • Invested a further productivity £2,507 to CITB funding, • Better staff to ensure 38 contractors could complete welfare and Asbestos Training morale • Demonstrated a commitment to the workforce and subcontractors • Improved staff motivation and capability Roofing Sector SBS Roofing North- £5,000 2017 10 months • Improving • Upskilled 10 staff in the Technical and East health and Level 3 NVQ in Safety Training England safety Occupational Works and Non-licensed Asbestos • Improving Removal productivity • Invested an additional • Qualifying £3,850 to CITB funding, workers • Training offers career • Improving progression 18

cost opportunities for efficiency trainees • Winning • Trainees can pass on knowledge to future more work trainees and new starters • Permitting the company to tender more in the public sector Slating and Tiling M Camilleri & Sons Wales £5,000 2016 16 months • Improving • 27 employees trained in Upskilling in the Roofing Limited health and NVQ Slating and Roofing Industry safety Roofing, SSSTS and Health and Safety • Improving Awareness productivity • Updated training and • Qualifying ensured staff remained workers trained • Improving • Improved standards of cost deliver to clients efficiency • Alleviated cash flow problems

Training Rory Little Roofing Scotland £5,000 2016 21 months • Qualifying • Developed skillset of Advancement workers workforce in

• Improving conservation of historic

productivity buildings • Winning • Training included the making and using of more work traditional mortars • Changing • Raised awareness of the industry long term benefits of culture developing the right skills • Experienced an increase in work demand

Skills Training in Garage Roof Scotland £4,310 2018 17 months • Qualifying • 5 employees upskilled in Flat Roofing Sector Company (Ellon) workers multiple skills, including Limited • Improving installing liquid plastic products and Asbestos productivity Awareness • Improving • Improved knowledge health and and confidence of health safety and safety in the • Improving workforce cost • Able to work in-house efficiency and continue internal training with the rest of the workforce Specialist Heritage SJ Roofing and Midlands £5,000 2017 12 months • Reducing • Upskilled employees in Roofing Training Maintenance skills gaps techniques applicable to

• Winning the heritage sector

more work • Increased success in • Increasing winning contracts staff retention • Increased standards • Qualifying within the niche sector workers • Increased staff retention in the organisation

Health and Safety Les Perry Roofing North- £4,764 2017 12 months • Improving • Upskilled 7 employees in Awareness East productivity safety training, including

England • Qualifying IOSH and IPAF

workers • Increased knowledge of • Improving recycling and waste health and management in the safety industry • Changing • Improved waste industry management of roofing culture material • Trained enough First

Aiders to accompany each team

Safety and Risk DVC Roofing and North- £5,510 2017 18 months • Qualifying • Mandatory safety Management in Building Limited East workers training has improved Roofing Sector England • Better staff risk control within the morale and high-risk environments welfare employees operate in • Improving • Staff feel more valued, health and with a noticeable safety improvement in staff morale

Upskilling to Meet Weatherproofing South- £5,000 2017 19 months • Qualifying • Investment and training Contractual Advisors Limited East workers of existing employees Requirements England • Better staff has improved welfare and engagement in the morale workforce • Utilising • National Grid training digital and was mandatory for a new client contract – this technology ensured access to sites which safeguarded employment for a number of operatives

Training to Meet Willcocks Roofing Scotland £4,544 2017 15 months • Improving • Ensured employees Business Needs Limited management were equipped with and essential skills to comply leadership with the roofing sector skills standards • Improving • Improved the founder’s health and business knowledge 21

safety • Enabled the workforce to • Expanding gain the knowledge to business tender for larger jobs

Supervisory W Swindell and North- £3,850 2019 5 months • Improving • With the completion of Training to Expand Son (Roofing) West management the SSSTS course, the the Workforce Limited England and business has been able leadership to increase the number skills of supervisors and the • Expanding number of additional business labour brought in • Better staff • The potential for welfare and business growth has morale increased • Improving • The funding ensured a health and training investment in 79 safety employees, with a noticeable improvement in workforce morale

Multi-skilling Female Greenroof UK Scotland £3,423 2018 5 month • Expanding • The beneficiaries Staff Limited business comprised of 8 female • Raising employees. standards • The training ensured • Qualifying employees were multi- workers skilled and held skilled • Improving workers CSCS cards health and • Improved flexibility of safety staff has improved works • Changing programming on site industry • Improved opportunities culture for gaining certifications via applications (SSIP

and Constructionline) • Access to these and increasing workforce flexibility has allowed the business to tender at a higher level

Mixing New and Ploughcroft North £5,000 2017 20 months • Utilising • Drone Operation training Old: Drone and Limited England digital and has enabled the Heritage Training new business to drone for technology site surveys, thus • Reducing eliminating the skills gaps requirement for a • Qualifying surveyor to work at workers height • Heritage training has bridged a skills gap for the younger generation of employees, since herniate roofing work is in high demand in the region • Funding has enabled the business to renew their PASMA and IPAF qualifications, prior to expiry.

[Scaffolding] Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project duration Project type Outcome awarded awarded Enhancing People's Scotland £5,000 2018 12 months • Improving • Increased workforce self- Organisational Self- Safety Limited productivity sufficiency through Health Sufficiency • Qualifying and Safety and Fire training workers • Training can now be • Improving cost carried out in-house efficiency • Created the opportunities • Progressing for career progression for careers the trainees • Raising • Improved uniformity in the standards way tasks are carried out • Health and Safety knowledge of staff has improved productivity and the safety of employees. High-Level Upskilling Scaffnet East £4,135 2018 12 months • Changing • Raised standards and in Scaffolding Services Midlands industry culture demonstrated industry opportunities to workforce Limited , England • Qualifying • Increased staff retention workers in scaffolding sector • Improving • Upskilled 5 employees in productivity varying technical abilities • Increasing staff • Implemented a supportive retention learning culture through the training

Site Management NSJ Scotland £5,000 2017 16 months • Qualifying • Upskilled 7 employees in Upskilling Scaffolding workers SMSTS and CISRS • Improving schemes, as well as productivity forklift training • Improving health • Reduced skills gaps in the and safety workforce • Better staff • Qualified skilled workers, 24

welfare and thus representing their morale skill-set clearly • Increased staff confidence and morale

Scaffolding Rose System North- £5,000 2018 12 months • Improving health • Increased staff Workforce Scaffolding West and safety development and bridged Development and Limited England • Improving skills gaps Upskilling productivity • Training included Health • Progressing and Safety training, careers Construction Site • Reducing skills Certification and gaps Supervisory training. • Supplemented additional training of apprentices • Increased safety of staff onsite Scaffolding and First Scaffolding Wales £2,814 2017 16 months • Improving • Upskilled 9 employees in Aid Training Solutions productivity First aid, Asbestos Wales Limited • Qualifying Awareness, Scaffolding workers (CISRS), with TG20 and • Raising SG4 guidance standards • Increased the number of • Improving health qualified personnel to and safety raise the standard of service • Increased capabilities across the company • Invested an additional £3,350 to CITB funding to maximise the training opportunities Training AHL Scotland £5,000 2018 8 months • Qualifying • Upskilled 5 employees, Advancement Scaffolding workers including 2 supervisor • Reducing skills • Increased opportunities gaps for career progression • Progressing • Improved customer

careers satisfaction • Winning more • Increased demand for the work company’s work

Competency Severnside South £4,209 2018 12 months • Qualifying • Upskilled 8 employees in Training in the Scaffolding England workers Part 1 and Part 2 Scaffolding Sector Limited • Improving Scaffolding, Advanced productivity Scaffolding and IPAF. • Progressing • Enabled training to take careers place without causing cash-flow issues • Improved competency of employees and allowed opportunities for career progression

Height Safety MY Wales £5,000 2017 12 months • Qualifying • Improved skills - all Training Scaffolding workers workforce

• Improving health • Safer practices - reducing

and safety accidents • Winning more • Increased demand for work work and the overall • Raising number of contracts standards • Improved standards in the work produced

Management JR and M North £4,998 2017 9 months • Improving • Improved business Development Scaffolding West productivity strategies

Programme England • Improving • Improved opportunities for

management career progression - 10

and leadership trained managers skills • Investment in staff • Progressing increased motivation and

careers helped to reduce staff • Increasing staff turnover retention

In-house Learning Austins South £5,000 2018 17 months • Improving • Improved recycling for Specific Cradles England productivity • Increased the

Development Needs • Improving health competency of employees

and safety and their skills

• Better staff • Safer practices and welfare and reduced accidents morale

[Building Repair and Maintenance] Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project duration Project type Outcome awarded awarded Productivity and Drewsons South- £5,000 2018 7 months • Utilising digital • Bridged skills gaps Sustainability in Décor Limited West and new • 4 employees completed Construction England technology training in Tendering, • Improving Project Management and productivity Process Improvement. • Expanding • Improved productivity and business business prospects: e.g. employees better understand E-Tendering procedures via Government procurement portals. • Training has created opportunities for growth, whilst teaching employees how to control and sustain such growth. Production and Patchett North £5,000 2017 15 months • Improving • Reduced skills gaps, Management Homes England management brought about by an Training Limited/ and leadership expansion in the business Patchett skills • Upskilled 20 members of • Improving staff (including 7 women) Joinery productivity in production and Limited • Reducing skills management courses gaps • Invested an additional

• Changing £11,000 to CITB funding industry culture Training in Fire PPM Limited Midlands, £7,800 2019 1 month • Improving • Upskilled 48 employees in Stopping Awareness England productivity well-fitted and certified fire

and Fire Doors • Reducing skills doors gaps • Better able to fulfil client contract requirements • Changing based on training industry culture • Increased ability to branch out and seek work outside 28

of housing associations • Helped to improve safety standards across housing associations

Continuous JKR Scotland £10,000 2018 12 months • Improving • Provided continuous Improvement Contractors productivity development training to 90 Training • Improving employees, including site management managers and supervisors and leadership • Increased demand for new skills contracts • Winning more • Improved business growth work Continuous Haldane Scotland £4,255 2017 13 months • Qualifying • Upskilled staff in SMSTS, Employee Construction workers PASMA and the Scottish Development • Reducing skills Credit and Qualifications gaps Framework (SCQF) • Improving • Increased the skill-set of productivity the workforce • Raising • Improved staff competency standards • Increased the standard of service delivery Kier Clarion Housing Masher South £2,625 2018 5 months • Qualifying • Upskilled one employee in Brothers England workers a Higher National • Improving Certificate (HNC) in productivity Building Surveying • Winning more • Improved capability of work employee and increased • Expanding skill-set business • Helped to establish the business name • Helped to secure further contracts

Construction Law Tom Midlands, £10,000 2017 17 months • Utilising digital • Updated employees’ Willoughby England and new knowledge of construction Limited technology litigation, as well as • Changing training in new software industry culture • Trained 17 beneficiaries • Qualifying • Increased standards workers through regulatory • Changing knowledge industry culture • Improved awareness and efficiencies

Level 2 Carpenter N J Mulhern South £680 2017 11 months • Qualifying • Improved the skills of a England workers workforce based in a

• Winning more remote rural setting work • Training helped to raise • Progressing standards and win more careers contracts • Increasing staff • Improved opportunities for retention career progression • Continued contribution to local economy

Specialist Skills PAYE South £9,800 2017 16 months • Improving • Helped to strengthen Training Stonework and England productivity specialist knowledge within Restoration • Qualifying the organisation Limited workers • Improved the competence • Improving of 14 training beneficiaries management in Site Management, and leadership Facade Preservation and skills NEBOSH • Improving • Enabled staff to comply health and with new pre-requisites,

30 safety based on training received.

[Suspended Ceiling Installation]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project duration Project type Outcome awarded awarded Interior Design CAD RAP Interiors South- £5,000 2017 9 Months • Utilising • Trained an apprentice in the Training Limited East digital and CadTek SolidWorks software England new • Reduced outsourcing of 3D technology renders and the workload of • Qualifying other designers workers • Produced more accurate • Improving drawings through SolidWorks productivity than in 2D • Expanding • Increased business business competitiveness by enabling the company to offer a unique service regionally, thus increasing business competitiveness

[Painting and Decorating]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project duration Project type Outcome awarde awarde d d Process and Project H and S South £5,000 2018 5 Months • Changing • Trained 10 personnel in Management Training Decorating England industry Project and Process Specialists culture Management Limited • Improving • Implemented a development productivity culture at the company • Improving • Staff are more appreciative of management carrying out efficient and business processes in daily leadership tasks skills • Improved communication • Raising between employees and standards customers • Increased rates of customer satisfaction Business Growth Wilson East- £5,000 2018 11 Months • Improving • Upskilled employees to Coatings Midlands, productivity develop the business to the Limited England • Qualifying next level workers • Staff completed the Level 2 • Expanding NVQ in Painting and business Decorating, the Level 3 Occupational Worker NVQ and the Level 6 Contracting NVQ • Improved the capability of the workforce • Increased tendering opportunities

Sales & Marketing GME Painting North £2,000 2017 12 months • Improving • Trained 4 employees in Development Contractors England productivity Sales and Marketing

Programme Limited • Qualifying Development Programme workers • Improved planning and

• Improving formalised processes in the management sales and marketing and approach leadership • Improved the marketing skills strategy • Increased the demand for work and helped to win more contracts

Management A-Team North £5,000 2018 13 months • Raising • The Management Development Training Decorators England standards Development programme • Winning improved planning and more work delivery processes • Improving • Processes and procedures management are now formalised and • Formal procedures enabled leadership the company to bid for a skills wider range of work • Increased professionalism and increased the quality of work delivered

Mandatory Training Haines Painting Wales £4,862 2018 13 months • Increasing • Technical training in software and Decorating productivity has improved accuracy and Limited • Reducing productivity skills gaps • Qualifying workers in Face • Qualifying Fit Training, HNC Surveying workers and PASMA Tower Users • Increasing has qualified workers to the staff standards required by clients 34 retention • Staff feel that an investment has been made in them, thus improving morale

[Sealant Application]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project duration Project type Outcome awarded awarded Supervisory Training A1 Sealants North- £5,000 2018 10 months • Leadership • Invested an additional in Sealant Sector Limited West and £13,400 to CITB funding to England management enhance the training • Qualifying opportunity workers • Upskilled 14 employees in • Improving sealant application, productivity supervisory work and • Progressing construction contracting careers NVQs (Levels 2, 3 and 6, respectively) • Qualifications allowed employees to gain CSCS cards • Upskilled employees to occupational work supervisors • Provided greater flexibility in team management and contract scheduling

[Reinforced Concrete]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Training and Cidon North- £5,000 2018 12 • Qualifying • Upskilled 20 employees in Development of Local Construction East months workers a range of NVQs, Labour Limited England supervisory schemes and • Improving operational safety courses productivity for plant use • Improving • Invested an additional management £2,540 to CITB funding and leadership • Reduced reliance on skills outsourced labour by • Increasing staff training local staff retention • Demonstrated commitment to training and developing current staff

[Civil Engineering]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project duration Project type Outcome awarded awarded Staff Career Centar South £4,055 2018 13 months • Improving • Upskilled 3 staff and Progression Training Surfacing England management helped to progress their Limited and leadership careers in Health and Safety Management. skills • Implemented new and • Improving fresh ideas via the new productivity compliance manager • Improving health • Company invested a and safety further £1,466 to training, • Better staff in order to ensure welfare and trainees felt more prepared before tests morale Safety and Maxi Scotland £5,000 2018 12 months • Improving • Upskilled 37 personnel Leadership Training Construction productivity across 20 modules Limited • Changing • Skills were developed in industry culture Mental Health First Aid, • Improving IMS Internal Auditor management Training and the CITB and leadership Director’s Role for Health skills and Safety. • Increased productivity, whilst improving workforce competency in individual roles Rail Industry Skills Rooke Rail Wales £4,400 2018 11 months • Improving • The one employee and Standards and Civils management upskilled in rail safety Training Limited and leadership courses as well as the skills SSSTS course. • Qualifying • Able to bid for new and workers varied work and target • Improving different clients productivity • Increased demand for • Reducing skills business within one 38

gaps month of course • Expanding completion business • Winning more work

Enabling High Marcus North- £10,000 2018 17 months • Improving • Operatives completed the Quality Site Worthington & West management Level 6 NVQ in Management Co Limited England and leadership Construction Through skills Management

Qualification • Improving • Increased tendering productivity opportunities • Qualifying workers • Trained site management • Winning more to a high standard work • Invested an additional £5,750 to CITB to funding to ensure all 9 beneficiaries could be qualified • Decided to distribute future budget to further training

Training Morgan Wales £5,000 2017 8 months • Improving • Increased the number of Advancement Construction productivity employees trained in LGV

Wales Limited • Qualifying and CPC driving workers competence qualifications • Raising standards • Increased efficiency whilst working on a large social • Increasing staff housing project retention • Reduced outsourcing for desired skills

Personal Safety Whitehouse Midlands £8,600 2017 2 months • Changing • 87 employees trained in Construction Construction , England industry culture Cultural Safety Training Awareness • Better staff and Behavioural Safety welfare and • Improved cultural and morale behavioural awareness of • Qualifying workforce workers • Improved wellbeing of • Improving employees productivity • Increased the quality of teamwork • Instigated a supportive environment Online Training M B Roche & North- £4,500 2017 7 months • Utilising digital • Improved skills - 15 Courses for All Sons East, and new employees

Training Needs England technology • Improved standards

• Qualifying • Increased contracts

workers

NVQ Level 7 WGM Civil Scotland £3,645 2016 22 months • Improving • Increased contracts Construction Senior Engineering productivity • Improved opportunities for

Management • Progressing career progression with 7

careers trained managers

• Improving • Improved productivity management • Improved business and leadership strategies skills • Expanding business

NVQ Level 6 in Marcus North- £10,000 2018 5 months • Improving • Qualified 9 employees in Construction Worthington & West productivity the Level 6 Construction

Co Limited England • Improving Management NVQ

management • Improved career

and leadership progression opportunities skills for trainees • Expanding business • Increasing staff retention Reducing Skills Howard North- £5,000 2017 12 months • Raising • Trained 24 employees in Gaps in Health and Russell East standards 18 courses

Safety/Plant Training Construction England • Reducing skills • Courses included gaps NEBOSH, CPCS and

• Improving health Plant Training and safety • Project increased health • Qualifying and safety standards workers • Met all essential training needs for contracting

Training in Machine Fisher and £2,230 North- 2019 1 month • Qualifying • The training reduced Operating Wilkinson East workers outsourcing of sub- Limited England • Improving cost contractors with specialist efficiency machine operating • Reducing skills licenses, as an internal gaps member of staff was training to do so

Displaying a Swift Building £3,775 Midlands, 2017 21 months • Qualifying • Ensured key training was Commitment to Contractors England workers carried out for staff and Training • Improving cost sub-contractors efficiency • Displayed a commitment

• Better staff to training and safety welfare and standardisation to morale employees • Improving health • A clear commitment to and safety training and development • Improving of the workforce helped to management reduce the cost of the and leadership business’s insurance skills renewal

[Site Preparation or Groundworks]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Plant Operating and S.J. and S Wales £5,000 2018 9 months • Qualifying • Upskilled 8 personnel in a Handling Williams Limited workers range of CPCS courses and a • Improving Level 2 NVQ Registration productivity • Raised awareness in the • Improving workforce of the importance of health and Health and Safety safety • Enhanced the ability to • Raising manage risk on site standards • Inspired the company to conduct similar training in the year following training completion Temporary Works HM Site Scotland £5,000 2017 15 months • Qualifying • Upskilled 4 employees in a Supervisor and Plant Management workers range of technical training Training • Improving • Training included Concrete productivity Appreciation, Levelling for • Winning more Construction and Telescopic work Handler • Raising • Enabled the business to meet standards tendering standards in the public sector • Improved risk management of temporary works • Enhanced organisational efficiency • Invested an additional £1,929 to maximise training output Plant Training Boyle Scotland £5,000 2017 12 months • Increasing • Used funding to supplement Construction staff retention their training model.

(GLW) Limited • Better staff • Increased staff morale and welfare and motivation to complete more

morale training

• Winning more • Instigated a learning culture work within the company • Reducing • Increased organisation skills gaps competitiveness in the • Qualifying demolition sector workers

• Expanding business

[Dry Lining and/ or Partition]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Upskilling and Mansell Midlands, £5,000 2017 13 months • Qualifying • Upskilled 28 beneficiaries in Management Training Finishes England workers managerial and core skills of Women Limited • Changing training industry culture • Facilitated diversity by training • Improving 23 women out of the 28 total management • Empowered staff to take and leadership ownership and responsibility skills • Increased cross departmental communication • Improved processes between sites and headquarters Continuous Training Interceil Limited North- £7,500 2018 12 months • Improving • Utilised funding to support a Programme East management continuous personal

England and leadership development programme skills • 40 employees were trained in • Improving 6 qualifications productivity • 6 employees promoted as a • Qualifying result of the development workers programme • Progressing • Increased staff morale and careers assurance of company • Better staff investment in their skills welfare and • Continued the development morale programme after the end of project Dry Lining Training P M White Dry South £5,000 2018 12 months • Changing • Qualified 15 beneficiaries in a Lining Limited England industry culture range of NVQs

• Qualifying • Improved the quality of work workers • Increased the commitment of • Increasing staff subcontractors to the retention company • Expanding • Continued the culture of business continuous professional 45

development

Management Modular Office North- £5,000 2016 12 months • Improving • Upskilled and qualified 3 Development and Storage East management managers in the Level 6 NVQ in Programme Systems England and leadership Construction Site Management skills • Motivated managers to create

• Qualifying training plans for all employees workers • Supported further applications for • Progressing funding to facilitate additional careers training

[Road Safety Marking]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project duration Project type Outcome awarded awarded Upskilling Long-Term Quality Marking South- £5,000 2018 11 months • Improving • Upskilled 4 employees in Trailer Employees Services East productivity LGV training Limited England • Qualifying • Reduced the reliance on workers • Reducing outsourced labour skills gaps • Increased the flexibility of the workforce • Increased regional new starter recruitment, to be trained by beneficiaries of the project

[Plant Hire and Repair]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarde awarde duration d d Western Isles Plant John Maciver Scotland £4,715 2017 17 months • Improving • Upskilled 3 employees in the Operation Training and Sons productivity Crane Appointed Person SVQ Limited • Better staff and the Gritter Calibration welfare and Course morale • Introduced the Gritter • Progressing Calibration service to the Isles careers • Reduced the reliance on • Winning more mainland labour for Isle-based work work • Improved workforce morale • Benefitted the family-run business and the wider community on the Isle of Lewis Waste Management Angus Maciver Scotland £4,800 2018 12 months • Improving • Enabled the company to offer Training Limited productivity further services to clients and • Qualifying diversify long-term prospects workers • Upskilled employees in Waste Management Industry Training (WAMITAB) and National Plant Operators Registration Scheme (NPORS) • Increased organisational confidence in signing up for larger projects • Increased tendering opportunities, which require the above accreditation

Waste Management & Angus Maciver Scotland £4,800 2017 12 months • Improving • Improved skills in remote area National Plant Limited productivity • Increased contracts

Operators Registration • Improving • Continued contribution to local Scheme Training management economy and leadership

skills

[Hard Landscaping and Paving]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Design Skills James Bird North-East £5,000 2016 14 months • Improving • Reduced outsourcing of and Development Landscaping England productivity landscape design skills Programme Limited • Qualifying • 6 operatives upskilled in workers Health and Safety, • Reducing compliance, design and safe skills gaps plant operation training. • Utilising • Improved staff capabilities and digital and skills to carry out high levels of new design and landscaping work technology • Raising standards • Winning more work

[Joinery and Carpentry]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarde duration d Training for Future MBM Contracts South £4,028 2017 15 months • Qualifying • Upskilled 4 employees in plant Generations Limited East, workers training, DSAT training in Site

England • Reducing skills Carpentry and Advanced gaps Bookkeeping. • Improving cost • Increased organisation self- efficiency sufficiency and efficiency • Better able to pass on knowledge to younger staff members Eque 2 Training Hazelwood Wales £5,000 2017 10 months • Digital and new • Trained 25 employees in Eque Carpentry technology 2 software

• Productivity • Supported Evaluation, Sage and new ways Construct and CIS of working accountancy software within • New the company qualifications • Reduced disruption and courses • Able to display immediate • Expanding results of organisational business processes • Streamlined the business • Improved opportunities for growth Training and Mentoring Matthew North- £4,800 2018 10 months • Leadership • Reduced skills gaps McCrossan East and • Upskilled in strategic analysis,

Bespoke England management planning, performance training Furniture & • Expanding via periodic monitoring, Storage business reviews and coaching • Winning more • Developed a growth strategy work for 3-5 years, with the skills • Progressing garnered from training careers • Increased work demand has • Raising increased regional 51

standards employment opportunities and allowed the hire of an additional Woodworker

Management Training Wedd Joinery East- £4,800 2017 15 months • Improving • Improved opportunities for Anglia, management career progression

England and leadership • Helped to develop and skills implement a new business • Changing strategy industry culture • Raised standards of work • Improving produced productivity • Increasing staff retention

Business Improvement EWW Joinery North- £4,800 2017 12 months • Improving • Utilised ‘on-the-go’ training for East management 6 employees to train in a England and leadership range of business skills improvement and • Improving management workshops productivity • Improved the output and • Raising quality of work performance standards • Increased staff confidence • Better staff and morale welfare and • Enhanced organisational morale culture to measure • Improving cost performance and develop efficiency methods of evolving

Bringing New Skills to O’Mac Scotland £5,000 2017 12 months • Reducing skills • Upskilled 13 employees in the Western Isles Construction gaps Lead Welding and K Rend Limited • Utilising digital Application and new • The training bridged a skills technology gap on the island • Improving cost • Helped to reduce outsourcing efficiency of labour from the mainland • Expanding • Increased the regional business competitiveness of the company

[Passive Fire Protection]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Health and Safety Isoler Limited North- £5,000 2018 13 • Improving • Upskilled 51 employees in NVQs East months productivity 10 Health and Safety England courses • Improving • Improved staff well-being health and and self-assurance on site safety • Increased site safety • Better staff • Improved productivity with welfare and fewer accidents and risk morale management • Qualifying workers

[House Building]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarde awarde duration d d Management Development Oakworth North- £4,998 2017 12 months • Improving • Funding used to improve Programme Homes Limited East management management skills England and leadership • 3 directors attended 6 skills workshops • Utilising digital • Improved knowledge on how and new to grow the business technology • Better process • Improving cost implementation with sub- efficiency contractors • Raising • Developed an a cloud-based system for internal use, to 54

standards manage production and cost

CIMA Accountancy Training Walton Homes West- £4,495 2018 13 months • Utilising digital • Qualified one employee in Limited Midlands, and new an accountancy qualification • Used the training to create a England technology • Utilising digital fresh approach to current and new processes technology • Notable improvements • Reducing skills evident, especially in gaps improving the efficiency of • Progressing existing and new job roles careers • Improved employer willingness to train workforce more regularly as a result of training outcomes Training to Meet Skills Northumberlan North- £3,454 2018 9 months • Improving • The training has enabled a Requirements in the d Homes East health and reduction in skills gaps Housebuilding Sector Limited England safety specific to a particular • Expanding project business • Retention of work and • Reducing skills expansion of skills has gaps enabled the company to employ a further 8 members of staff

[Land Drilling]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Railway Contracts Albion Drilling Scotland £4,515 2017 12 • Qualified • Renewed all training about to Limited months workforce expire within the company

• Improving staff • Upskilled 21 operatives in 9 morale and qualifications to supplement welfare railway-based skills gaps • Raising • Improved ability to tender for standards railway contracts • Expanding business • Reducing skills gaps • Winning more work

[Asbestos Removal]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarde awarde duration d d Continuous Training Reddish £5,000 5 months • Improving • Training used to support site Programme Vale Insulations productivity managers, site supervisors North- 2018 Limited • Improving and operatives to be contract West health and complaint England safety • Contributed to a reduction of • Improving Asbestos Removal skills management shortages in the sector and leadership • Able to adhere to changes to skills the Health and Safety Executive Code of Practice for Asbestos Removal. Skills and Training Reliable South £2,400 2018 9 months • Raising • The training updated Fund Insulations & England standards employee knowledge of

Fibre Control • Qualifying current industry requirements workers for Asbestos • Improving • Delivered a range of higher health and education courses, including safety the NVQ Level 2 Diploma in Removal of Hazardous Waste • Progressing careers and Level 3 Diploma in Occupational Work Supervision • Improved safety knowledge of the workforce and increased awareness

[Relocatable Partitioning]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Management Training Style Door South- £2,148 2018 3 • Improving • One employee achieved 2 for Long-Term Impact Systems West months management qualifications: APM Project England and leadership Fundamental and APM skills Project Management qualifications • Better staff • Impacted on managing and welfare and maintaining strong teams morale • Improved the ways teams • Raising interact standards • Improved knowledge of project management terminology which will improve interaction with clients and other contractors.

[Liquid Waterproof Systems]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Health & Safety Weatherwell Wales £5,000 2018 9 months • Improving • Upskilled 11 employees in health Training and Roofing Limited productivity and safety, and plant based Telehandler Course • Improving training (including Telehandler) health and • Increased staff confidence in

safety Health and Safety throughout the • Reducing organisation and on construction skills gaps sites • Improved the working environment for the workforce, and improved employee wellbeing

[Asphalt and Tar-Spraying]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Safety Training C R MacDonald West £4,884 2018 6 months • Improving • Trained 38 employees in a range Limited Midlands, productivity of online, in-house and external England • Reducing training courses skills gaps • Upskilled in CPCS training, E- • Better staff Learning and Practical Personal welfare and Track Safety morale • Improved staff morale as employees feel more valued • Increased company competitiveness as employees are qualified enough to bid for further tenders

[Demolition]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Environmental and Goody South £10,000 2017 17 months • Utilising digital • Trained 38 employees in a Demolition Training Demolition England and new range of online, in-house technology and external training courses • Winning more • Upskilled in CPCS training, work E-Learning and Practical • Reducing Personal Track Safety skills gaps • Improved staff morale as • Qualifying employees feel more valued workers • Increased company competitiveness as employees are qualified enough to bid for further tenders Health and Safety Tom Prichard Wales £9,960 2017 18 months • Improving • Improved skills in 45 Awareness/ Plant Contracting productivity employees

Training Limited • Winning more • Increased contracts in new work areas of the industry

• Raising • Improved standards standards Demolition Safety Dem-Master Scotland £7,500 2017 17 months • Raising • Upskilled 25 members of the Demolition standards workforce in sector-specific

• Winning more safety courses

work • Training included Asbestos • Expanding courses, Plant NVQs and in- business house 360 Excavator training • Improving health • Safety knowledge has and safety improved prospects of career • Progressing progression for many of the careers trainees 61

• Staff now ready to face challenges integral to the business • The business has targeted new challenges and staff work more flexibly

Upskilling B&B Industrial East £4,819 2017 12 months • Improving • 16 employees trained to Dismantling Midlands, productivity enhance their technical

Limited England • Reducing skills knowledge in the demolition gaps sector

• Improving health • Training included NVQs in and safety Demolition as well as the • Raising IOSH course managing safely standards • Reduced skills gaps and • Progressing increased promotions careers • Widened the range of jobs and tasks within the company

ISO Management JCJ Group Scotland £3,590 2018 9 months • Improving • Supported the use of a new System Training productivity management system based

• Improving health on Quality, Health and Safety

and safety and the Environment • Changing • Importance of these topics industry culture has been raised throughout the workforce to 47 employees • Increased standards of output, regarding impact and safety

[Preparing/Fixing Stone for Building, including Stonemasonry]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration NVQ Diploma in Samonstar South £2,400 2017 12 months • Qualifying • Trained 25 people in Stonemasonry and Limited T/A England workers Stonemasonry and Stone

Stone Fixing Samson Marble • Increasing Fixing

(Construction) staff retention • Retained businesses’ • Better staff competitiveness as employees welfare and remain carded and fully morale qualified • Enabled the organisation was able to employ a new Stonemason

Specialist Access Zenith Property Scotland £3,050 2018 7 months • Improving • Qualified 10 employees in the Steeplejack NVQs. Conservation health and Leve; 2 and 3 NVQ in safety Specialist Steeplejack Access

• Better staff • Facilitated the retention of welfare and current employees and trained morale them to the right standard for • Qualifying contractual work workers • Improved the quality of service provided

[Hard Flooring]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration NVQ Qualifications Northern North-East £4,115 2017 12 months • Qualifying • Trained 30 employees in Floorcraft England workers various NVQs, relevant to the • Raising skills gaps the employer had standards identified • Improving • Helped to enhance health and organisational reputation safety • Improved health and safety • Expanding within the workforce business • Training could not have been undertaken without Skills and Training funding.

[Fitted Kitchen/ Bedroom Installation]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Solidworks Visualise Chiselwood East- £880 2018 6 months • Raising • Applied further training in CAD Training Limited Midlands, standards to streamline the design England • Utilising process internally digital and • Reduced lag time and new inefficiencies and enabled technology product design and • Improving presentation within the same productivity software • Improving • Reduced turnaround time of cost design to workshop production efficiency

[Alteration to a Building/ Part of a Building] 65

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Management Livesey North- £9,600 2017 14 months • Winning more • Formalised procedures and Development Training Construction West business improved relationship[ and Design England • Raising management with sub- standards contractors • Improving • Improved punctuality of project management delivery and • Increased professionalism leadership internally and externally skills • Increased the number of referrals and work opportunities

Training to Aid Consortia North- £5,000 2018 11 months • Expanding • Specialist Risk and Safety Business Expansion Integrated West business training has allowed the Services Limited England • Reducing business to grow its skills gaps Maintenance Department • Increased staff confidence in abilities and helped to expand the range of services offered to clients

Training to Prepare the McCombie North- £5,000 2017 14 months • Expanding • Training staff according to Business for Growth Construction West business organisational needs has Limited England • Improving prepared the business for the management next stage of growth. and • The training has improved leaderships processes and helped to place skills new systems in place • Improving • The business is now certified health and in NEBOSH and Health and safety Safety training, in order to • Better staff

66 welfare and meet industry requirements. morale

[Shopfitting]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Mandatory Safety Rosebirch North- £2,925 2017 17 months • Reduced • Ensured employees received Training for Workforce Limited East, skills gaps mandatory safety training Wellbeing England • Qualifying without placing financial strain workers on the business • Improving • Maintained workforce quality management compliance to ensure the and workforce met industry safety leadership standards skills • Demonstrated commitment to • Improving staff training by investing an health and additional £2,553 to the project safety

[Plastering and/ or Artexing]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Training to Support KDPS Limited Scotland £2,210 2018 5 months • Reducing • The new skills gained have Business Expansion skills gaps enabled the business to plan • Expanding the employment of more staff business and apprentices • Improved knowledge of Leadership and Mental Health knowledge in the context of Business Development • Contributed to company growth

Team and People Ryedale North-East £5,000 2018 8 months • Raising • Funding enabled the business Management Training Plasterers England standards to complete human resource Limited • Increasing training and marketing staff retention training, that they would have • Better staff been unable to finance without welfare and funding morale • Training has improved the treatment of staff, thus benefitting workforce wellbeing and motivation • Training, and subsequent upskilling, ensured the safeguarding of 2 jobs

[Netting and Rigging]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Increasing Services Bodacc Limited Wales £4,890 2018 5 months • Expanding • Lime Mortar and Telehandler Offered to Clients business training ensured the business • Reducing could offer more services to skills gaps clients • Raising • A widening client base has standards increased the likelihood of expanding the workforce

[Bricklaying/ Pointing]

Project title Fund recipient Region Amount Year Project Project type Outcome awarded awarded duration Raising Standards in Roe Brickwork South- £5,000 2018 15 months • Qualifying • Training of internal Brickwork the Bricklaying Sector Limited East workers Assessors has helped to take England • Raising control in the quality of skills standards being transferred to new • Improving bricklayers productivity • Training has increased confidence in job delivery by staff to clients • Has motivated the employer and workforce to continue training in short-duration courses, to maintain highest standards possible