Fair Train

8th February 2010

Research carried out by Skills - Third Sector and others found that charities and social enterprises have found it difficult to offer apprenticeships if their funding is mainly project based. They need guaranteed funding to pay for the apprentice during the time that the training takes, and beyond. Charities also did not want to enter into partnerships with the profit-making training providers who make up most of the apprenticeships' training market.

Fair Train is the Group Training Association for third sector apprenticeships that has been set up to help to address these barriers. It will help charities, social enterprises and voluntary organisations secure government funding to train apprentices. It will also match not-for-profit training providers from the third sector to charities and social enterprises that want to offer apprenticeships.

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