Investment portfolioRSS Feed

Following three extremely competitive and rigorous bidding and assessment processes, the UK Commission has so far invested £77m in 91 projects with 20 organisations.

Our £77m investment has been matched by £27m direct employer investment and £39m employer in-kind investment. All of our investment is aimed at driving a positive shift in employers’ attitudes to investing in skills.

Use the links below to view our current investment portfolio. You can view by project title, organisation, sector, fund, or date.

Please note: the information on this website only relates to those Employer Investment Fund and Growth and Innovation Fund investments managed by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. For information on the National Skills Academy and Joint Investment Programme investments managed by the Skills Funding Agency please visit the GIF pages on the Skills Funding Agency’s website.


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  • Cogent: Life Sciences

    21 Dec 2011

    This project will provide a skills infrastructure to support a home grown talent pipeline for the UK Life Sciences sector. The investment will market test and stimulate employer investment in UK skills by developing four employer led and employer supported propositions.

  • Cogent: Nuclear

    12 Jan 2012

    Three interrelated strands of work to ensure the skills are in place at the right time for the Nuclear industry.

  • Cogent: Process Industries

    4 Jan 2012

    Establishing the Gold Standard as the Process Industry standard for skills and its de facto voluntary ‘Licence to Practise’.

  • ConstructionSkills: The Low Carbon Challenge

    5 Jan 2012

    With the ‘Green Deal’ about to ‘go live’, the focus of this investment is to build capacity within local supply chains and provider networks as the market starts to respond.

  • Creative & Cultural Skills: Academies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

    5 Jan 2012

    The investment is to set up National Skills Academies in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland with their primary focus being the delivery of: Apprenticeships; continuing professional development (CPD) provision; and careers information, advice and guidance (IAG).

  • Creative & Cultural Skills: Ambassadors for Growth

    5 Jan 2012

    Creative & Cultural Skills will work to address employers’ lack of knowledge about how to identify and address their own training needs and to provide tailored support for hard-to-reach employers, including SMEs and sole traders, by putting in place a network of ‘Ambassadors for Growth’. These will be sector experts embedded in industry, working with Creative & Cultural Skills and with training providers.

  • Creative Skillset on Course

    6 Oct 2011

    Skillset is developing a quality assurance framework to ensure the most industry relevant qualifications are clearly signposted and to provide employers with the tools to identify high quality job applicants.


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