BUSINESS FEATURE : THE WORK OF THE INTRAINING
GROUP
website : intraining.co.uk
Developing People for Employment
Like all the best businesses, the Intraining Group started life in a garage. The publicity never did any harm to the likes of Hewlett Packard and Apple, quite the reverse, and the same, no doubt is true of a company that also enjoys a reputation for a quality product that has grown over time.
Without question, the Intraining Group has evolved to become a major force in the training industry. With over 80 regional offices across the UK, they can argue with authority that they are becoming a clear leader.
Talking to Ross West, one of the team responsible for getting the message across to local communities in the Sussex area, you get the strong feeling of someone who is able to deliver information about what the group does, to all kinds of audience.
So many training issues are masked in jargon or layers of bureaucracy. To hear someone speaking with friendliness and clarity, feels very much like the right kind of conversational tone necessary for the times in which we now live.
In a crowded marketplace with so many training initiatives that so often promise so much, but never deliver the goods, we need direction, focus and investment.
Young people desperately need, if they are to equip themselves with relevant skills, training companies that can deliver. The Intraining Group looks very much like it is beginning to shine a light with initiatives that could point the way forward.
When asked to sum up the values of the business, Ross does it the best way possible, in a single sentence that is refreshingly simple.
It was all started by a chap on his own in a garage, it was a push for work based training in industries based on a simple thought.. why can’t it be done better?
Beginning life in Peterborough, and now based in Sheffield, the Group has recently entered into a partnership with Newcastle University, an arrangement that is seeing its expansion managed one evolutionary stage further.
The Intraining Group is now one of the top performing national training providers and leading providers of quality work based learning and training solutions throughout England, Scotland and Wales, from Government funded skills training to bespoke professional qualifications through to employability services and national training contract management.
The famous garage where Hewlett Packard started, is now to become a museum. It remains to be seen whether the garage where it all began for the Intraining Group, will one day enjoy a similar status.
What is clear is that the values of the business have a history and legacy, which like Hewlett Packard, enable them to work and deliver products and a service, right here, right now, at a time of acute social and economic need.
People need help and support to find their way, to their own destination in life, with careers that can count. The Intraining Group could be just the ticket. What we need in the new Age of Austerity is training companies that can make a difference to young people and their hard pressed lives.
Ross is involved in running several workshops for young people and is interested in hearing from community leaders, community groups and young people themselves locally within the area, who want to find our more about what the Intraining Group might be able to do for them.
Ross can be contacted on 0114 289 8400.
