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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Improve: Benchmark
5 Jan 2012
Improve will develop a sector specific tool which will enable food and drink companies to benchmark their performance against their counterparts on a number of business measures and identify key areas for improvement. The tool will be based on customisation and extension of the DTI Benchmarking Index.
Improve: Blueprint for Excellence
5 Jan 2012
This Improve project will produce a ‘Blueprint’ or ‘Excellence Standard’, by engaging with the top performing companies in the sector to capture the skills and knowledge that represent individual best practice in a wide range of job roles.
Improve: Tasty Graduates
5 Jan 2012
Improve’s ‘Tasty Graduates’ will create a ‘Centre of Excellence in Food Production Engineering’ within the UK and also a new Undergraduate level sandwich course in food engineering, through working with key industry employers and the Food & Drink Federation as part of their Graduate Ambition activity. It will establish this area as both a discipline and a profession in its own right.
Improve: Tasty Jobs
5 Jan 2012
The Improve project ‘Tasty Jobs’ represents work with employers, relevant government organisations and the agency labour providers who are critical to providing skilled labour to the sector to identify and address the policy and procedural barriers which prevent an unemployed person securing a long-term employment opportunity with an employer in their local community.
Institute of the Motor Industry: Attracting and retaining talent in the automotive sector
11 Jan 2012
IMI aim to attract and retain talent in the automotive sector by developing a programme infrastructure and resources to link careers teachers and practitioners with industry employers and trainers in order to give them first hand insight into what a career in the industry entails and by providing a cohesive, sector specific CIAG portal.
Institute of the Motor Industry: Develop an infrastructure to improve the poor levels of management and leadership capability in the sector
11 Jan 2012
IMI will develop an infrastructure to improve the poor levels of management and leadership capability in the sector. The investment will also help develop and implement a sector wide cohesive Management and Leadership programme for the automotive sector which will remove duplication and enable more employers to access a flexible, coherent infrastructure which brings a step change in the way the sector develops and supports its managers.
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)
11 Jan 2012
This investment will lead to the development of a 14-16 automotive vocational programme to reduce the number of young people becoming Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET).
Institute of the Motor Industry: Expand and embed the Automotive sector’s Professional Register as the voluntary Licence to Practise
11 Jan 2012
With the support of the Employer Investment Fund, IMI will expand and embed the automotive sector’s Professional Register as the voluntary Licence to Practise.
Institute of the Motor Industry: Increasing current competence levels developing a new approach to upskilling the automotive technician population
11 Jan 2012
This IMI project will increase current competence levels through the development of an Assessed Outcome Modular (AOM) approach to re-accreditation for all routes within the Automotive Technician Accreditation (ATA) scheme.
Institute of the Motor Industry: Making and winning the economic argument for employer investment in skills using RoI studies
11 Jan 2012
This IMI project will create a portfolio of specific Return on Investment (RoI) studies to make and win the argument for sustained investment in skills by employers in the Automotive Retail sector.