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Employer Investment Fund

The Employer Investment Fund has been created to stimulate employer investment in skills and to improve the use of these skills in the workplace in the most effective way.

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The UK Commission will invest in activities that demonstrate the strongest potential for impact to increase enterprise, jobs and growth. 

The Employer Investment Fund is only open to licensed Sector Skills Councils and aims to:

  • Stimulate leadership from the bottom up to significantly raise employer ambition
  • Drive innovation, change  employer behaviours and develop new ways of working
  • Secure momentum from employers to support sustainable increases in skills levels and better use of skills across sectors

Please click here for further information about the Employer Investment Fund Phase 3


The Employer Investment Fund Phase 2 was launched on 30th June 2011.  £61m of investment has now been announced in 63 employer led projects - read the full press release or the sector overview  

The £61m invested by the UK Commission has generated over £42m of co-investment from employers and other sources.  This means that over £103m will be invested in employer led skills projects over the next two years.

The following investment has been made in each sector (click the sector name for examples of the projects in that sector):

Sector UKCES Investment Employer/Other cash investment Employer/Other in-kind investment Total investment
Agriculture  £2,847,308  £778,375  £699,624  £4,325,307
Built Environment  £3,364,157  £0  £888,250  £4,252,407
Creative & Digital   £13,264,717  £2,837,968  £4,856,264  £20,958,950
Energy  £4,550,555  £570,000  £4,482,683  £9,603,238
Public Services   £11,002,098  £282,000  £5,984,208  £17,268,306
Manufacturing   £10,374,586  £4,052,000  £8,536,196  £22,962,782
Service   £15,658,403  £3,865,366  £4,476,662  £24,000,431
Total  £61,061,824  £12,385,709  £29,923,888  £103,371,421


The table below shows each of the 63 EIF Phase 2 investments.

*Please note that the total investment column includes cash and in-kind contributions from employers and other sources

 Sector Delivery
Organisation 		 Project Title UKCES
Investment

Total
Investment*

Agriculture Lantra Promoting Careers: supporting entry and progression routes  £1,030,048 £1,457,354
Agriculture Lantra The Land based Business Centre £1,324,112  £1,912,987
Agriculture Lantra Professional Standards Framework £493,148

£954,966

Built Environment Asset Skills Routes To Employment £333,618 £420,618
Built Environment Asset Skills Talent Management  £414,310 £484,310
Built Environment Asset Skills Increasing Employer Investment in Higher Level Skills £884,277 £1,034,277
Built Environment Asset Skills Intelligence to Maximise Skills Investment and Career Opportunities £393,787 £479,037
Built Environment ConstructionSkills The Low Carbon Challenge £1,338,165

£1,834,165

Creative & Digital Creative & Cultural Skills Creative & Cultural Skills Academies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland £1,648,246 £2,866,246
Creative & Digital Creative & Cultural Skills Ambassadors for Growth £1,416,470  £2,810,819
Creative & Digital e-skills UK Informed Choices  £1,318,248 £2,294,628
Creative & Digital e-skills UK Higher Education Pathways £1,002,326 £2,028,820
Creative & Digital e-skills UK Vocational Pathways £725,436  £1,076,445 
Creative & Digital e-skills UK Workforce Skills £749,143 £1,152,449 
Creative & Digital e-skills UK  Employment & Entrepreneurship £404,848  £657,239
Creative & Digital Skillset     Creative Ambition £1,814,719 £2,138,450
Creative & Digital Skillset Creative Solutions £1,688,209 £2,274,855 
Creative & Digital Skillset Creative Futures £1,461,082 £1,870,013
Creative & Digital Skillset Creative Intelligence (in collaboration
with Creative & Cultural Skills)		 £1,035,990 £1,788,936
Energy Cogent Nuclear £1,078,671 £3,625,671
Energy Energy and Utility Skills Generating Skills Investment through Supply Chain Collaboration £623,499 £1,225,749
Energy Energy and Utility Skills Stimulating New Entrant Training in Renewable Energy £1,625,770 £2,785,020
Energy Energy and Utility Skills Market Intelligence to raise Employer Investment £499,066 £859,249
Energy Energy and Utility Skills Raising the Sector Profile to Attract New Entrants £723,549 £1,107,549
Manufacturing Cogent Process Industries £2,267,592 £3,217,592
Manufacturing Cogent Life Sciences £1,470,784 £2,175,784
Manufacturing Improve Blueprint for Excellence £643,418 £1,052,438
Manufacturing Improve Benchmark  £326,491 £402,931
Manufacturing Improve Tasty Jobs £437,188 £1,187,188
Manufacturing Improve Graduate Excellence £229,113 £576,899
Manufacturing SEMTA         Transforming the skills and productivity of the supply chain companies current workforce £1,894,228 £3,894,228
Manufacturing SEMTA Attracting new talent to fill the skills gaps in SMEs through Apprenticeships £2,619,527 £9,369,477
Manufacturing SEMTA Attracting new talent to fill the skills gaps in SMEs through graduates £486,245 £1,086,245
Public Services Skills for Care and Development Mobile Learning and Knowledge Solutions £697,000 £2,999,196
Public Services Skills for Care and Development Recruiting a world class workforce £742,000 £773,200
Public Services Skills for Care and Development Learn from Learning: comparison website
and toolkit		 £453,000 £706,163
Public Services Skills for Care and Development Supporting employers with the workforce
implications of Assistive Technologies		 £306,000 £346,850
Public Services Skills for Health Role Redesign for Support Workers £1,304,039 £2,279,039
Public Services Skills for Health Skills Utilisation (networks) £1,363,750 £2,063,750
Public Services Skills for Health Quality Mark £360,211 £525,310
Public Services Skills for Justice High Performing Workplaces £1,074,240 £1,264,440
Public Services Skills for Justice High Performing People  £1,568,257 £1,822,257
Public Services Skills for Justice Working Across Boundaries £1,164,468 £1,641,408
Public Services Skills for Justice New Employers, New Models £1,075,461 £1,446,261
Public Services SkillsActive Active Ambition £893,672 £1,400,432
Service Financial Skills Partnership The Hidden Powerhouse £933,067 £1,776,417
Service Financial Skills Partnership Leadership 21C £829,571 £1,490,621
Service Institute of the Motor Industry Making and winning the economic argument for employer investment in skills using RoI studies £241,628 £1,065,928
Service Institute of the Motor Industry Increasing current competence levels developing a new approach to upskilling the automotive technician population £413,596 £789,886
Service Institute of the Motor Industry Develop an infrastructure to improve the poor levels of management and leadership capability in the sector £666,415 £1,025,787
Service Institute of the Motor Industry Expand and embed the Automotive sector’s Professional Register as the voluntary Licence to Practise £945,038 £1,745,038
Service Institute of the Motor Industry Attracting and retaining talent in the automotive sector £407,608 £418,208
Service Institute of the Motor Industry Development of a 14-16 automotive vocational programme to reduce the number of young people becoming ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) £476,250 £930,250
Service People 1st / GoSkills Helping the unemployed back to work £1,033,291 £1,249,491
Service People 1st / GoSkills Accelerating social mobility in the
workplace		 £683,503 £1,059,303
Service People 1st / GoSkills Professionalising the workforce and
increasing the effectiveness of training		 £1,910,933 £2,091,733
Service People 1st / GoSkills Achieving economic growth by improving
the customer experience		 £1,465,768 £1,996,643
Service People 1st / GoSkills Increasing business investment in skills
and reducing wasted public expenditure
£848,322		 £896,322
Service People 1st / GoSkills Aligning employers and stakeholders to
deliver sustained growth through skills		 £848,047 £907,410
Service Skills for Logistics Intelligent Logistics £894,313 £1,839,913
Service Skills for Logistics Professional Logistics £678,012 £950,412
Service Skills for Logistics Local Logistics £698,216 £966,144
Service Skills for Logistics Progressive Logistics £1,684,825 £2,800,925

Total

 £61,061,824 £103,371,421


The Employer Investment Fund Phase 1 was launched on the 8th March 2011 with a fund value of £5m.  Following a competitive assessment process, our Commissioners identified 14 projects best placed to meet the aims of the fund. 

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