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South Yorkshire Skills Bank Application Form

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STANDARD INFORMATION

Q1 Company Trading Name*

Company Address*

Companies House Number*

Please type 0 if you are not registered on Companies House

Company Website

If you do not have a company website please leave blank. Please include: https:// at the beginning of your web address.

SYMCA Local Authority*

Q2 Business Contact Information*

Job Title*

Email Address*

Contact Number (Work)*

Contact Number (Mobile)*

COMPANY BACKGROUND

Please state your Business Sector*

If OTHER please state the Sector:

Q4 Please select the appropriate Company Size*

Note: A large company is one having a workforce above 250 employees and on annual turnover over £18m or a balance sheet of above £35m

Q5 Please provide the actual number of staff (full time or full time equivalents)*

Q6 Please provide the actual number of staff (full time or full time equivalents) whose designated workplace is within South Yorkshire*

Q7 Please provide your actual turnover in the last financial year*

Q8 Please provide the amount of public funds received by the company over the last three fiscal years (State Aid)

Note - You must enter a figure in every box, even if zero There is a ceiling of 325,000 SDR_, (approx £350,000) of subsidies over the three fiscal year period. _Special Drawing Rights are an International Monetary Fund (IMF) Unit. Public funds are any contribution made to an employer (financial or in kind) from a public authority, which confers an economic advantage that is not freely available to all. - Examples include grants (e.g. contribution to training costs, big lottery), loans / loan guarantee at below market rate and accessing publicly owned office space rent free.

2021 to 2022*

2022 to 2023*

2023 to 2024*

Total

Q9 Please select one option to reflect how you were made aware of Skills Bank*

If you have selected OTHER, please state how you were made aware of Skills Bank below:

Q10a Please provide a summary description of your company and the sector/sectors in which you operate so that we may understand your business. The description should include your main products and services. Alternatively, if covered adequately on your website then please include a link to your website*

The response should provide an understanding of the current and anticipated challenges, threats and opportunities. Only a high level view of the opportunities is required here given that the plans and actions driving the companies growth will be explored in subsequent questions

Q10b Please outline the current and upcoming opportunities, threats and challenges to your business (not the specific business development in the pipeline which are required at subsequent questions)*

Q11 Please tell us your projected turnover (or equivalent figures) for the next, the third and fifth years.*

Next Year

Year 3

Year 5

If the figures are not turnover please tell us what they represent e.g. gross profit:

ECONOMIC OUTCOMES

At question 12 please explain the business developments (in progress or on the horizon) which underpins the forecast provided at question 11. Please confine your response to only those opportunities and planned actions which are not directly related to the training being requested. Note that the business benefit of the training is required at question 13.

Q12 Please explain the developments in the business under the heading or headings that best reflect the developments which are ongoing or about to take place. Note that we have included subheadings in the response box as prompts to help you:*

The response boxes attached to each heading contain subheadings to help you structure the response and support consistency in our appraisal process.

a) Innovation - the company is introducing new/significantly improved products or services and/or radically new processing.

b) Increased Productivity - the company is introducing changes to ways of working/revised processed to improve productivity.

c) Increased Sales - the company has identified new markets or opportunities to increase sales to existing markets.

d) Adopting New Technology - the company has recently or is acquiring new technology/digital solutions to drive growth.

e) Access New International Markets - the company has or is moving into new or expanding sales within international markets.

f) Collaborating for mutual benefit - the company is collaborating with partners to enable the take up onew opportunities and or to create efficiencies.

g) Other - the growth is not covered in the above headings

a) Innovation - the company is introducing new / significantly improved products or services and /or radically new processing.

Innovation – introducing new or significantly improved products/ services to the market, and or new processes which will potentially impact on the overall profitability of the company. These should be described in some detail including financial estimates

b) Increased Productivity - the company is introducing changes to ways of working / revised processes to improve productivity

Increased Productivity e.g. through new ways of working, revised processes, increasing output per worker &/or reducing cost of sales will potentially impact on the overall profitability of the company.

c) Increased Sales - the company has identified new markets or opportunities to increase sales to existing markets.

Increased Sales -opportunities to increase sales to existing customers or new customers within domestic markets may have or be opening up and will impact on the overall profitability of the company.

d) Adopting new technology - the company has recently or is acquiring new technology / digital solutions to develop the business.

New technology (recently acquired or pipelined) will potentially impact on the overall profitability of the company.

e) Access New International Markets - the company has or is moving into new or expanding sales within international markets.

A move into new, or an expansion of existing export markets will potentially impact on the overall profitability of the company.

f) Collaborating for mutual benefit - the company is collaborating with partners to enable the take up new opportunities and or to create efficiencies.

Collaboration with partners and stakeholder to form joint projects, share intelligence and share resources will potentially impact on the overall profitability of the company.

g) Other – the actions to develop the business are not covered in the above headings

The drivers and activity which are developing the businesses profitability do not comfortably sit under the above headings. The applicant should include a heading description to fit the circumstance

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South Yorkshire Skills Bank Application Form

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STANDARD INFORMATION

COMPANY BACKGROUND

ECONOMIC OUTCOMES

TRAINING OUTCOMES

Training Provider Details

Programme Details

INCLUSIVE GROWTH

South Yorkshire Economic Benefit

Inclusive Employer Practice

Corporate Social Responsibility

Sustainability

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

FEEDBACK (Optional)

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South Yorkshire Skills Bank Application Form

Please complete all fields marked with an *

STANDARD INFORMATION

COMPANY BACKGROUND

ECONOMIC OUTCOMES

TRAINING OUTCOMES

Training Provider Details

Programme Details

INCLUSIVE GROWTH

South Yorkshire Economic Benefit

Inclusive Employer Practice

Corporate Social Responsibility

Sustainability

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

FEEDBACK (Optional)

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