Leadership & Management funding is available

New funding up to the value of £1,000 is now available via the Skills Funding Agency for development of leadership and management skills.

To be eligible your business must be in the East or West Midlands, or East of England, employ between 5 and 250 and have potential for fast or high growth.

Funding is provided on a pound for pound matched basis and covers a wide range of development activities including personal style, enterprise culture, effective teams and organisation plus leading and managing employee performance.

Information of the relevant services to help you from HeadwayB2B

The application process is straight forward via EMBLtd

Manufacturing output & jobs holding up

The Bank of England April report shows manufacturing output, particularly exports, to be holding up. Employment too is steady, though new recruits often taken on temporary contracts, but with some signs of these then converting to permanent.

Encouragingly, firms are taking more interest in apprenticeships.

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