Skills Vision

Peterborough’s Skills Vision sets out to help new talent prosper. We’re giving a voice to the city’s businesses, education providers and funders of education to find out what shape they want the city’s skills agenda to take.

Businesses are invited to sign up to the Vision and commit to:

• Actively encourage and support employees to gain skills and qualifications that help to meet the needs of your business, as well as assisting their future employability.
• Raise your employees’ skills and competencies to improve your business performance by investing in economically valuable training.
• Engage with Opportunity Peterborough through an annual survey to share information on your existing and future skills requirements.
• Be positive about Peterborough’s young people contributing to the workplace and be receptive to the concept of helping them to make the transition from education to employment.

In return, we’ll support you to achieve this commitment by sharing regular updates about local and national skills, and pointing businesses in the right direction for available funding, expert advice, information on skills development opportunities and support from training providers.

For more information on the Peterborough Skills Vision, click here to download the booklet.

To register your company’s support for the Peterborough Skills Vision, just fill out your details below:

“The launch of the Peterborough Skills Vision has proved a huge success with 100 businesses singing up in the first month.  As the cabinet member for skills on the City Council, I can assure you of the commitment we have to providing the support for you to develop your workforce’s skills and also to the development of the City’s workforce of the future.  I am sure we should congratulate Opportunity Peterborough on this initiative.” Cllr John F W Holdich OBE.

“Skills are vital for the development of our businesses and the development of Peterborough as a city. We   endeavour to embrace skills for all our staff and to help the transition of young people from a school to work environment” Rob Facer, Chairman of Barnack UK and the Evening Telegraph’s Business Person of the Year 2010.

Any questions? Get in touch: skills@opportunitypeterborough.co.uk