How it works: five simple steps to great training


By ensuring your employees have the right skills to do the best job, Train to Gain can help boost productivity and keep you ahead of the competition.

Working closely with highly experienced Train to Gain Skills Brokers, we can provide quality, affordable training for your employees. Together we can:

  1. Identify the skills your business needs
  2. Pinpoint the right training
  3. Agree a tailored training package
  4. Find available funding
  5. Review the progress you are making

Step 1: Identify the skills your business needs


Based on a clear understanding of your business goals, your Train to Gain Skills Broker works with you to carry out a free review and analysis of your business to assess what skills your business has right now, and what it might need in the future.

All Train to Gain Skills Brokers are trained by the Learning and Skills Council. They are all specialists in training and have a proven track record of providing effective advice to business. If you need it, they can also provide access to a wider network of business support services.

Step 2: Pinpoint the right training


Your Skills Broker makes training recommendations based on their skills analysis explained in Step 1.

Step 3: Agree a tailored training package


Together with your Skills Broker and ourselves, you agree a training package.


Step 4: Find available funding


Your Skills Broker can recommend the best ways of funding your training, explaining all the funding options available to you. Train to Gain provides some funding itself. This might include:

  • Free training to help employees gain their first full Level 2 qualification and Skills for Life first numeracy and literacy qualification. This includes all training towards 5 GCSEs at Grade C or above, NVQ Level 2 or equivalent (such as Skills for Life programmes) and a wide range of other training for low–skilled staff.
  • Wage compensation for companies with less than 50 employees.
  • Funded programmes, including for Apprenticeships and Advanced Apprenticeships, NVQ Level 3 and above, such as higher education.

Step 5: Review the progress you are making


We and your Skills Broker provide continual support and work with you to review how your training is progressing.