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Training
A range
of
training and advisory services are available for those involved
in the food industry. There is also a lot of training available
to current producers and producers looking to diversify their businesses.
Please follow the links below to find out more:
IT Training
BBC
Webwise - Online Learning
Leicestershire
County Council Education Department
Leicestershire
Mobile Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Training
Leicestershire
Learning and Skills Council (LLSC)
Leicestershire
Parish Councils and Leicestershire Villages
Business Learning
Business
Link
Business
In The Community (BITC)
Learn
Direct (LD)
Lantra
Information
and Electronic Services Team (IEST)
Business Training
Vocational
Training Scheme (VTS)
Forward
Farming Project (FFP)
F3
- The Local Food Consultants
South Leicestershire Training Group
Harborough Training Group
Others
UK
Online
England's
Farming and Food Partnership (EFFP)
BBC Webwise - Online Learning
IT
Training
The BBC's website, has an interactive learning site, that can be
done in the user's own time, online. Users can complete a taster
course, then go on to do the BBC's online internet course, becoming
Webwise, which can lead to a nationally accredited qualification.
A very useful interactive site recommended for absolute beginners
using a computer, helping beginners understand how to use the mouse
and shows basic keyboards skills.
Various step-by-step tasks guide the user and educates them on getting
started and using the internet progressing to finding a way around
the internet, using search engines, using e-mail and building a
web page to using the web safely. The course is made up to 10 hours
of material, which helps users learn and practice further all the
skills they need to use the internet.
Contact:
www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/learn/
Leicestershire
County Council Education Department
IT Training
Hinckley and Bosworth Borough's education colleges offer a wide
range of IT courses, catering for a range of people with varied
amounts of experience from using a computer to using software.
Education program time and cost depends on the experience and course
required by the individual. They also provide courses on Food Hygiene
and First Aid.
Basic keyboard skills and using various available software programmes
are learned through identified learning outcomes.
A range of times are available, mainly evenings with the course
broken into a number of learning weeks. An exam for a nationally
recognised certificate can be taken on some courses.
Contact:
Bosworth Community College, Desford. Tel: 01455 828294
Groby Community College, Groby. Tel: 0116 287 4725
John Cleveland College, Hinckley. Tel: 01455 638021
Market Bosworth Community College, Market Bosworth. Tel: 01455 299835
Newbold Verdon, Community College, Newbold Verdon. Tel: 01455 822362
St Martins Catholic School, Nuneaton. Tel: 01455 212386
William Bradford Community College, Earl Shilton. Tel: 01455 845061
Leicestershire
Mobile Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Training
IT Training
A mobile computer training scheme, helping people learn and develop
confidence in using a computer to communicate. Trainers travel to
villages, set up computers in village halls, pubs or community centres.
Informal fun learning experience. Starter courses in using a mouse,
a computer and starting programs.
Short courses in word processing, desktop publishing, spreadsheet
publishing using the internet and e-mail are available. Free of
charge although a small coverage fee may be charged.
Leicestershire
Learning and Skills Council (LLSC)
IT Training
LLSC joined with Leicestershire Rural Partnership (LRP) and the
Welland project to develop a pilot mobile ICT initiative offering
IT training, utilising laptops in rural centres.
Aimed at farmers and employees to develop practical skills and ICT
initiatives, delivered using Lantra. Modular training in skill areas
not formally catered for in this industry.
Contact:
Tim Dawson, Leicestershire Learning and Skills Council.
Tel: 0116 228 1860
Leicestershire
Parish Councils and Leicestershire Villages
IT Training
These websites split the whole of Leicestershire into districts.
There is plenty of information about local business directories,
amenities, community groups, notice board, events, discussion forums,
crime stoppers, local contacts, news, benefits, job centres, health
information, playgroups and childcare, learning opportunities, public
transport and tourism.
The website offers free IT training to village and parish council
communities on how to create, manage and use their own websites.
Contact:
Websites:
www.leicestershirevillages.com
www.leicestershireparishcouncils.org
Business
Link
Business Learning
Provides information and advice to SMEs in the area, amalgamating
many of the most important local business support services whilst
offering access to specialists' experiences.
Their aim is to improve the competitiveness of businesses through
the provision of affordable and relevant support.
The website is comprehensive, providing information and services
on the following areas of business: Setting up a business, Finance
and Money, People, Sales and Marketing, E-commerce and IT Management
and Operations, Business Improvements, Regulations and Tax.
Within each of these sections there are subsections providing factsheets
of every business aspect. There are case studies, frequently asked
questions and useful links to other websites of each subsection.
Contact:
Business Link Leicestershire, Charnwood Court, 5b New Walk, Leicester,
LE1 6TE.
Tel: 0116 255 9944 Fax: 0116 258 7333
Website: www.leicestershire.businesslink.co.uk
E-mail: enquiries@leicestershire.businesslink.co.uk
Business
In The Community (BITC)
Business Learning
BITC is an independent charity that has 700 member companies.
It launched the Rural Action Campaign, drawing attention to rural
deprivation and isolation and the need for businesses to consider
the impact of their business decisions on rural communities.
BITC works towards rural area development, helping to regenerate
the community's social and economic prospects.
Contact:
Gillian Clayton, 3rd Floor, 30-34 Hounds Gate, Nottingham NG1 7AB.
Tel:
0115 911 6666 Fax: 0115 911 6667
Website: www.bitc.org.uk/eastmids
Learn
Direct (LD)
Business Learning
Learn Direct provides specific online learning courses in computers,
office skills and self-development, which are designed for learning
at a time, place and speed that suits individual needs.
The website also provides an information and advice service, with
free business fact sheets of various business issues. These include:
Human Resources, Marketing, Finance, Legislation, Information Technology,
Expanding/diversifying a business strategically and compiling a
business plan for success.
Courses fall into the following categories and can be bought online
with learning beginning immediately: Business and Management, Home
and office IT, Specialist IT, Word and number skills. Free tasters
are available for many courses.
Contact:
Hinckley Adult Centre London Road, Hinckley, Leics, LE10 1HQ.
William Bradford Community College (Access Point) Heath Lane, Earl
Shilton, Leics, LE9 7PD.
Nuneaton Library and Info Centre (Access Point) Nuneaton Library,
Church Street, Nuneaton, Warks, CV11 4DR.
Learning and Information Technology Centre LITC Unit 2, Bond House,
Newdigate Street, Nuneaton, Warks, CV11 4EU.
Park House Access Point Riversley Road, Nuneaton, Warks, CV11 5QS.
Website: www.learndirect.co.uk
Lantra
Business Learning
The UK's Environment and Land-based Sector Skills Council uses Learn
Direct to offer training and advice on business development to over
400,000 businesses and 1.5 million workers involved the sector.
The aim of the Lantra is to ensure everyone involved in the land-based
sector has access to high quality learning and skills development
opportunities throughout the UK.
Lantra provides tailored solutions to individual businesses to meet
their skills needs.
Contact:
Lantra, Lantra House, Stoneleigh, Kenilworth, Warks, CV8 2LG
Tel: 024 7669 6996 Fax: 024 7669 6732
E-mail: connect@lantra.co.uk
Information
and Electronic Services Team (IEST)
Business Learning
Rural businesses that do not already have a web presence can get:
free one-to-one advice and consultancy on how the internet and e-mail
could benefit their business; a static, templated webpage, designed
and built for their company free of charge; free domain name registration
(.co.uk only); free web hosting; free e-mail forwarding; a free
link to their page from the searchable business directory at www.behive.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/
Contact:
Tel: Angela Maber 0116 227 3128
E-mail: amaber@nep.co.uk (quote
ref. SRB6)
Tel: Ray Smith 01509 643448
E-mail: rjsmith@leics.gov.uk
Tel: John Winter 0116 265 7810
E-mail:
jwinter@leics.gov.uk
Website: www.lcc.gov.uk
Vocational
Training Scheme (VTS)
Business Training
VTS provides funding for up to 75% of eligible costs for vocational
training activities that contribute to an improvement in occupational
skill and competence of farmers and other people involved in forestry
and other farming activities and their conversion (diversification
or a change from one of agricultural activity to another).
The training schemes fall into one of the following: information
and communication technology; business skills; marketing; conservation
and environmental skills; diversification opportunities; managing
resources; managing yourself and staff; looking for new ways of
working; technical skills (agriculture and horticulture and forestry);
farm food production and processing skills.
Contact:
Graham Norbury, Director, VTS, The Belgrave Centre, Stanley Place,
Talbot Street, Nottingham NG1 5GG
Tel: 0115 971 2510 Fax: 0115 971 2406
Email:gnorbury.goem@go-regions.gsi.gov.uk
Forward
Farming Project (FFP)
Business Training
This DEFRA-funded project looks at the farming industry, recognising
and adopting best practices, technically, economically and environmentally.
The project moves away from "commodity production" to
a means of surviving by other incomes. The website has examples
of how farmers have achieved this through close links with the wider
rural community.
Demonstrating Rural Integration gives farmers and the wider rural
community the opportunity to see first hand the benefits they can
gain by working together.
Contact:
Dr Angela Moss, Forward Farming Project Manager, ELITE Consortium
Ltd, Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Warks, CV8 2NE
Tel: 024 7684 9391
E-mail: angela.moss@elite.ac.uk
Website: www.forwardfarming.org.uk/welcome.html
F3
- The Local Food Consultants
Business Training
F3 organise courses related to local production and marketing.
Contact:
PO Box 1234
Bristol
BS99 2PG
Tel: 0845 458 9525
Website: www.localfood.org.uk
E-mail: mail@localfood.org.uk
South
Leicestershire Training Group
Business Training
Offers a wide range of practical land-based skills training and
can set up courses to meet local demand.
Contact:
Organiser: Mrs. M. Johnson,
28 Moat Close,
Thurlaston
Leicester
LE9 7TN
Tel: 01455 888250
Mobile: 07803 475493
E-mail: mgjo2000@aol.com
Harborough
Training Group
Business Training
Offers
a wide range of practical land-based skills training and can set
up courses to meet local demand.
Contact:
Organiser: Dawn Marriott
Beeches Farm
Theddingworth
Lutterworth
Leics
LE17 6QP
Tel: 01858 880961
Fax: 01858 881117
UK
Online
Miscellaneous
UK Online is a government website providing information and services
from government sectors for all industry sectors, from agriculture
and the environment to crime, law and justice.
There are many links to other useful websites within each sector
of the UK Online website and should be used as a useful quick search,
recommended as a first point of contact for the required information.
UK Online business is a DTI led partnership between industry and
government, providing impartial advice about e-business and ICT.
It provides free fact sheets on business related issues.
UK Online can help develop a business by providing: jargon-free
advice on using IT within a business through a range of information
publications and step-by-step guides; using e-business planning
tools to assess current position; and using benchmaking tools to
compare your IT with others in the sector.
Contact:
Website: www.ukonline.org.uk
England's
Farming and Food Partnership (EFFP)
Miscellaneous
EFFP's aims are to strengthen the profitability, competitiveness
and sustainability of England's farming and food industries.
EFFP is looking to develop a clear understanding of the role and
potential of agricultural co-operation through joint ventures
and partnerships.
EFFP can provide training, specialist advice and project management
for farmers and help them improve the profitability and sustainability
of their business.
Contact:
Website: www.effp.org.uk
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