Skills Bank 4 Application Form

The application does not require completion and submission in one go, it can be started and saved for later. You can navigate through the application (forwards and backwards) using the next/previous buttons at the bottom of the application page. Please note that using browser back buttons may undo your progress and changes may be lost. Please ensure you always use the save for later function located at the bottom of each page to save your progress before exiting the application. The save for later function requires you to input your email address to where the link should be sent.

Progress is NOT automatically saved.

Please note that once your application has been submitted to Skills Bank you will receive an electronic copy via email to the email address provided in your application at the time of submission.

If you have any queries regarding any of the questions within the application please click here to email the team.

Please complete all fields marked with an *

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Step 1 of 9 - Company Information

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Before continuing your application, please click here to check the eligibility requirements.

Company Information

Company Trading Name*

Contact Name*

First Last

Job Title*

Email Address*

Contact Number (Work)*

Contact Number (Mobile)*

Have you spoken to a Skills Advisor within the last 3 months?*

Yes

IF TICKED YES, COMPLETING AT OWN RISK

Declaration*

Please confirm you are happy for your details to be passed to a Skills Advisor before completing your application

I agree

Please now save your application for later using the button below and a Skills Advisor will be in contact with you in due course to discuss your business needs and application to Skills Bank.

Operational Address within South Yorkshire*

Please note, for companies with multiple sites, Skills Bank can only support the South Yorkshire operation and therefore it is that business address that should be recorded here

Address Line 1 Address Line 2 City County Postcode

Is this address for your head office or a branch office?*

Head Office

Branch Office

If "Branch Office" was selected above, please complete the below for the Head Office*

If both addresses are the same please use the "same as previous" tick box.

Same as previous

Address Line 1 Address Line 2 City County Postcode

Companies House Number*

https://www.gov.uk/get-information-about-a-company

Company Website*

If you do not have a company website please type "none". Please include: https:// at the beginning of your web address.

SYMCA Local Authority*

Please select the appropriate Company Size*

0-9 (Micro)

10-49 (Small)

50-249 (Medium)

250+ (Large)

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

Please select the appropriate sector for your business*

Accommodation, Food & Drink Services

Advanced Manufacturing & Materials

Agriculture/ Food Production

Business & Professional Services

Creative & Digital Industries

Financial & Insurance

Healthcare

Healthcare Technologies & Life Sciences

Logistics& Supply Chain

Green Economy / Net Zero Transition

Manufacturing / Engineering

Mining & Quarrying

Construction & Infastructure

Retail / Wholesale

Services

Sports, Leisure & Tourism

Utilities

Visitor Economy & Cultural Industries

Other

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

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

Please provide your actual turnover in the last financial year*

Please provide your net profit margins (%) in the last financial year*

Please tell us your projected turnover and net profit margins for the next, the third and fifth years.

Projected Turnover*

Next Year

Year 3

Year 5

Net Profit Margins (%)*

Next Year

Year 3

Year 5

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

Friend/Colleague

Skills Bank Website

Local Authority

Growth Hub

Growth Hub - Skills Advisor

Growth Hub - Growth Advisor

Press/Radio

Promotion of Skills Bank at an Event

Search Engine

South Yorkshire Growth Hub/Growth Hub Website

Social Media

Training Provider

Other

Do you have current and adequate Employer Insurance?*

Yes

Have you received Skills Bank funding previously?*

Yes

Please select the option that best reflects recent training practice.*

Please provide the amount of public funds received by the company over the last three fiscal years

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. 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.

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2023 to 2024

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2024 to 2025

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2025 to 2026

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Total

Public Funds*

Provision examples: Skills Bank, West Yorkshire Combined Authority, Skills Bootcamps

Provision

Value of Funding (£)

Financial Year (i.e. 23/24, 24/25, 25/26)

Total Value of Funding for all 3 years (£)*

Please provide a brief description of the business*

Please download and complete this document: Training Matrix

For guidance on how to complete the Training Matrix Click here

TRAINING PLAN

Please use this section to detail the specified training you are wanting Skills Bank to support with for your business.

Training Plan*

Please use the + button at the end of the row to add more training courses.

Course Title

Training Provider

Number of Learners

Cost per Learner

Please confirm the training proposal which needs to meet the following requirements before attaching: Click here

Drop files here or

Max. file size: 100 MB.

Has funding for this training been approved and set aside by the budget holder?*

Yes

Training Provider Details

Training Provider Name

Contact Name

Contact Number

Contact Email Address

Have you already discussed this training with the Training Provider?*

Yes

Does your organisation or anyone in your organisation, have any personal or financial links to the training provider/providers you’ve chosen?*

Yes

If yes, please provide detail on the nature of the relationship with the training provider*

Please upload the completed Training Matrix*

Max. file size: 100 MB.

1. Growth Case and Business Impact

Please describe in detail the benefits to the business which will be realised as a direct result of the training. Please provide specific growth outcomes (e.g. increased sales of XX in XXX markets) and the extent (either volume or percentage change)*

Please make it clear how the proposed training will create the business benefit stated. Your response should describe the measurable step‑changes that will be required for the benefit to be realised*

Please outline the risks that could prevent your organisation from realising the projected benefit to the business. Both external and internal risks should be considered including proposed mitigations for these risks?*

2. Skills Need and Training

Please describe the specific skills gaps within your business that this training will address. Explain why these gaps exist and their effect on current operations and future plans. Please indicate the evidence used to reach that conclusion*

Evidence may be performance data, quality issues, a formal skills needs analysis mapped to current and emerging needs etc

Please explain how the training directly addresses the identified skills gaps particularly in regard to the individual’s roles, responsibilities, and development needs. How will the effectiveness in addressing the skills needs be evidenced.*

3. Economic Impact and Public Value

Will the planned training directly contribute to the creation of additional high-quality jobs?*

Yes

Please provide an indication of the volume of additional, high-quality jobs that will be created and the timescale. Please describe the nature of these additional jobs being created and how their creation is a direct consequence of the training.*

Will the planned training directly contribute to staff retention/safeguarding or improving high quality jobs?*

Yes

Please provide an indication of the current challenges in staff retention / job safeguarding and how the training will directly create improvements in retention and progression pathways for employees.*

Please describe these improvements to high quality jobs and express how the improvements will be a direct result of the training. Please include the specific roles affected, the volumes and the nature of the improvements (responsibilities / pay etc)*

Will this training directly support improvements in innovation and/or R&D within your business or the region?*

Yes

Please describe how the training will be the catalyst for increased creativity, innovation, and /or research capability either in the business or across partners.*

4. Value for Money

Please provide your anticipated financial return on investment from the training, the timeframe over which the ROI will be realised and describe how you have come to that conclusion.

Please outline any benchmarking or other research you may have undertaken to satisfy yourself that this training represents good value for money and informs your anticipated financial return on investment from the training.

5. Deliverability and Risk

Please outline the plans in place to ensure that the training will take place as anticipated and all learners successfully complete the programme.*

Please describe both the plans and the management arrangements you have in place to ensure that the learning is consolidated and applied in the workplace and that the identified benefits to the business from this training are brought to fruition.*

Social Value Impact

If applicable, please outline any support your company offers to support local schools, colleges, universities etc with STEM, the curriculum, with enterprise projects, internships and employability skills.

If applicable, please outline any volunteering, expertise sharing, other support provided by the company for community projects.

Place Based Impact

If applicable and significant, please outline the extent to which your South Yorkshire supply chain will directly benefit from the growth of your company

If applicable, please outline any initiatives you currently have in place to support your company’s health and wellbeing agenda.

If applicable, please outline your organisation’s current involvement with the employability programmes like Bootcamps, Pathways to work including any plans you may have to engage with these schemes.

Apprenticeships

Please outline your organisation’s current involvement with apprentices and the apprenticeship programme

Net Zero

If applicable, please outline the actions the company is taking currently to materially reduce your carbon footprint and progress the company’s net zero ambitions.

Social Responsibility Commitments

As a publicly funded programme Skills Bank recognises and monitors the broader impacts that are aligned to its investments. Within the application to Skill Bank we asked you to report your activity on a number of social value indicators, we are asking you to report your further planned actions within this document and we will require an update on these commitments 3 months after the training has completed.

Please download and complete this document: Social Responsibility Commitments

Please upload the updated Social Responsibility Commitments document here:*

Max. file size: 100 MB.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Please provide any other information to support your application to Skills Bank

This is entirely optional and may be helpful if you have information which was not covered by the previous headings

FEEDBACK (Optional)

The application is intended to be self-explanatory, easy to follow and complete, and covers topics that the majority of businesses will have explored already. Please provide any feedback about the application form and process