Boost your business with Skills Bootcamps

Need to boost skills but not break the bank? Skills Bootcamps offer a wide range of courses in areas such as digital marketing, construction, and green energy – reflecting the diverse needs of the modern economy.

Currently available:

Digital and marketing

Immediate Impact digital bootcamp

This Skills Bootcamp will help primarily with small business owners and the self-employed in Y&NY who are increasingly needing the kind of cutting-edge digital marketing skills. This Skills Bootcamp is suitable for both individuals seeking to enhance their digital capabilities and employers looking for skilled talent. The training is face to face at EMS’s premises. 

Training organisation: Enterprise Made Simple 

Open to: Self-employed and businesses in York and North Yorkshire 

Estimated start date:
York starting 18th November

Interested? Register your interest here: https://enterprisemadesimple.co.uk/immediate-impact-digital-bootcamp/

Social Media

This Skills Bootcamp focuses on social media skills for small businesses and self-employed individuals, with the aim of growing their business and increasing their marketing presence. It is located in Harrogate and Ripon.

Training Organisation: Harrogate College (Luminate Group)

Open to: Self-employed and businesses in York and North Yorkshire

Estimated start date: November 2024

Interested? Contact: matthew.hanson@harrogate.ac.uk

Green

EV & Hybrid Car Repairs

This Skills Bootcamp focuses on Electric Vehicle & Hybrid Car Repairs and gives you the relevant qualifications needed and is suitable for those in the industry wishing to upskill and diversify their skillsets from traditional mechanical skills to include Electric Vehicle work. The training takes place in Scarborough.  

Training organisation: TEC Partnership/Scarborough TEC 

Open to: Individuals, self-employed and businesses in York and North Yorkshire 

Estimated start date: November 2024 and January 2025

Interested? Contact: hudaczeka@grimsby.ac.uk  

Heat Recovery and Transfer

This Skills Bootcamp focusses on heat recovery and transfer, including principles and applications, sector specific solutions, installation and maintenance of technology such as heat pumps. 

Training organisation: Heart of Yorkshire Education Group 

Open to: Businesses in York and North Yorkshire 

Estimated start date: October 2024 

Interested? Contact: dwhite@heartofyokshire.ac.uk 

Finance

Level 3 AAT Bookkeeping

This Skills Bootcamp will train individuals in units one and two of the Level 3 AAT Certificate in Bookkeeping: Financial Accounting and Preparing Financial Statements, and Tax Processes for Business.  

Training organisation: York Learning 

Open to: Individuals, self-employed and businesses in York and North Yorkshire 

Estimated start date: November 2024 

Interested? Contact: will.harris@york.gov.uk 

Construction

CAD for Construction

This Skills Bootcamp focuses on CAD for Construction and is suitable for those in the construction industry and those wishing to have a career change into the industry. 

Training organisation: HBXL 

Open to: Individuals, self-employed and businesses in York and North Yorkshire 

Estimated start date: Ongoing 

Interested? Contact: application-enquiries@hbxl.co.uk

Construction Management

This Skills Bootcamp focuses on Construction Management and offers two different routes: Estimating Skills OR Site Management Skills and is suitable for those in the construction industry and those wishing to have a career change into the industry. 

Training organisation: HBXL 

Open to: Individuals, self-employed and businesses in York and North Yorkshire.

Estimated start date: Ongoing 

Interested? Contact: application-enquiries@hbxl.co.uk 

Excavator

This Skills Bootcamp will get you the relevant skills and qualifications required to safely use an excavator in the workplace. This Skills Bootcamp is suitable for those in the construction industry and those wishing to have a career change into the industry. The training takes place in Scarborough.  

Training organisation: Northern Regeneration CIC 

Open to: Individuals, self-employed and businesses in York and North Yorkshire 

Estimated start date: Ongoing 

Interested? Contact: jessica@northernregeneration.co.uk  

Mixed Plant

This Skills Bootcamp will get you the relevant skills and qualifications required to safely use a telehandler + a plant machinery of your choice (road roller, forward tipping dumper or both) in the workplace. The course also includes a site supervisor qualification. This Skills Bootcamp is suitable for those in the construction industry and those wishing to have a career change into the industry. The training takes place in Scarborough.  

Training organisation: Northern Regeneration CIC 

Open to: Individuals, self-employed and businesses in York and North Yorkshire 

Estimated start date: Ongoing 

Interested? Contact: jessica@northernregeneration.co.uk 

Site Management

This Skills Bootcamp will get you the relevant skills and qualifications required to safely be a site manager on a work site. This Skills Bootcamp is suitable for those in the construction industry wishing to progress to a site manager role. The training location is Scarborough.  

Training organisation: Northern Regeneration CIC 

Open to: Self-employed and businesses in York and North Yorkshire 

Estimated start date: November 2024. 

Interested? Contact: jessica@northernregeneration.co.uk 

Leadership and Management

Quality Management

This Skills Bootcamp will provide participants with the skills to develop, implement and effectively manage quality systems aligned to ISO and sector-specific standards, while also developing skills required to boost productivity and those most in demand.  

Training organisation: Clear Quality 

Open to: Businesses in York and North Yorkshire 

Estimated start date: June 2024 and September 2024 

Interested? Contact: malc.healey@clearquality.co.uk 

Graduate Work Ready Game Industry

This Skills Bootcamp specifically focus on the games industry and aims to empower graduates with the skills and competencies necessary and making them fully work-ready to excel in the local job market and meeting the specific demands of employers in the region. 

Training organisation: Game Republic 

Open to: Individuals and self-employed in York and North Yorkshire 

Estimated start date: October 2024 

Interested? Contact: jackie@gamerepublic.net 

Creative

Technical Production

This Skills Bootcamp will support individuals to start and develop careers in the Live events sector. It will provide practical training in core aspects of delivering the technical aspects of Live events from sound engineering and lighting design to stage management and digital technology integration. 

Training organisation: Academy of Live Technology Ltd (Production Park) 

Open to: Individuals and self-employed in York and North Yorkshire 

Estimated start date: October 2024

Interested? Contact: jim.farmery@productionpark.com 

Unreal Engine and Virtual Production Technologies

This Skills Bootcamp will offer in-depth hands-on training in virtual and augmented reality, real-time rendering, motion capture and mixed reality technologies. 

Training organisation: Academy of Live Technology Ltd (Production Park) 

Open to: Individuals and self-employed in York and North Yorkshire 

Estimated start date: October 2024

Interested? Contact: jim.farmery@productionpark.com 

Digital Skills for Screen

This Skills Bootcamp focuses on Digital Skills needed in the screen industry. This is suitable for those with industry experience, but not necessarily digital skills experience.

Training Organisation: Screen Yorkshire

Open to: Individuals, self-employed and businesses in York and North Yorkshire

Estimated start date: December 2024

Interested? Contact: Karen@screenyorkshire.co.uk

HGV

These Skills Bootcamps are to train drivers to be Class 2 HGV drivers. There are two specific Bootcamps, one for those who are being referred by their employer, and one for individuals wishing to re-train and those who are self-employed. The practical training takes place from a base of Tockwith, near York.

Training organisation: Wetherby Training Ltd

Open to: Individuals, self-employed and businesses in York and North Yorkshire

Estimated start date: October 2024

Interested? Contact: laurie@wetherbytraining.co.uk

Training costs met for businesses

Develop your workforce in a convenient and affordable way, with up to 90% of all training costs met by the York & North Yorkshire Combined Authority.

For learners, Skills Bootcamps are free, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks, giving those who take part the opportunity to build up specific skills.

Follow the links below to find out more about each offer and to contact our Partners direct or e-mail Emilie from the Combined Authority’s Skills Bootcamp Team.
The Government also has a website where it lists all of England’s Skills Bootcamp provision currently available.

For more information on how to boost skills in your business, head to our Recruit & Retain staff pages.

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