£1.7m awarded for training organisation

Chris Luty, chief executive at BCTG

Training organisation BCTG has won a second package of government funding.

£845,000 has been awarded towards a skills boot camp to support 263 people with digital training.

A separate sum of £875,000 was announced last week for BCTG to support a HGV driving skills boot camp.

The new digital funding runs until 31 March 2022. BCTG is working with delivery partners such as Birmingham-based Brit Asia and Creative Alliance, Walsall-based Studio School and Wolverhampton-based Learnplay Foundation.

Chris Luty, chief executive at BCTG, said: “We’re thrilled to have won our second funding package to provide Skills Boot Camps that will deliver essential digital training and testing for people and then match them to job vacancies.

“This will enable us to help people to access a range of courses that include topics such as the fundamentals behind marketing, delivering marketing campaigns, digital and social media strategies.

“As a result, we will help to fill the gap in digital shortages and enable businesses to grow faster and further than ever before, locally and nationally, across the internet.”

The bootcamps are being delivered as part of the Lifetime Skills Guarantee and Plan for Jobs initiatives

Partner Brit Asia is providing the opportunity to learn about camera production, video post-production and podcast theory and production.

Giorgia Succi, the chief strategist of Brit Asia, said: “We are delighted to be working with BCTG on this campaign.

“We have seen a surge of interest from people across the West Midlands and it is encouraging to see that a high volume of people have already started their digital journey of learning.”

One of the companies in the BCTG Group, Performance Through People (PTP), will coordinate the bootcamps.

Richard Weightman, project manager for PTP Training, said: “These Bootcamps are providing people with excellent opportunities to develop their skills through these short courses.

“The support of our partners has meant that we can make our delivery offer more varied and attractive which has resulted in us being able to reach more people.”

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