OUR IMPACT
As an Ofsted-Good, Matrix-accredited organisation, our mission to ‘Make Talent Shine’ sets us apart from other training providers.
Our programmes support employability, tackle skills gaps and reduce skills shortages, with a focus on supporting everyone into meaningful work, with decent pay and a narrowing of employment gaps.
Our strategy to deliver bespoke aspirational programmes, create opportunities and improve social mobility for those living in our most disadvantaged communities, whilst also meeting local, regional and national skills needs is exemplary.
In 2020-21, we supported more than 1000 learners through apprenticeship, traineeship, adult education, kickstart and bespoke training programmes.
Better than the national average
- Our apprenticeship achievement rate is exemplary, 8% above the national average.
Career progression
- Our traineeship progression into a job, apprenticeship or further education is 74%
Learners and employers love us
- 91% of employers would recommend us
- 86% of learners would recommend us
Supporting communities
72% of our learners are from the most disadvantaged backgrounds (live in neighbourhoods with high deprivation levels, are care leavers, have suffered homelessness, adversity or discrimination, have learning difficulties, disabilities or health problems).
Creating opportunities
In response to the Government’s ‘Plan for Jobs’ we created more than 200 new job opportunities in collaboration with over 40 big name employers.
CASE STUDIES
"The Learning Foundry have been so supportive. I know my tutor is there for me if I have any problems or questions, she always replies so quickly!
Doing an apprenticeship was the right choice for me. I’m working in surgery every day, and over two years I really have done a bit of everything. We see NHS and private clients, so every day is different and varied.
I feel like I’ve learnt everything I need to be a dental nurse. Between what I’ve learnt in the surgery and in my workshops, I feel like I’ve covered it all."
Holly — Dental Nurse Apprentice
“I’ve got all the support I need from The Learning Foundry. My Coach was always there if I needed anything. I never liked school, I never liked college, I don’t like sitting in one place and watching the board. This qualification gives me the opportunity to get the theoretical knowledge and apply it straight away – much better than school!
“I’d tell anyone thinking about getting a management qualification to just go for it. Everything you learn is so useful, just do it.”
Margarita — Leadership and Management Apprentice
“I love being independent on my apprenticeship, I enjoy my sessions and I’m finding it easy to manage around my other work. My tutor is lovely and so responsive. Learning at TLF is not like school at all. I have developed great skills – I'm so much more confident, I’m speaking to people I would never have met otherwise."
Alisha — Business Administration Apprentice
"The Learning Foundry has helped me so much with my confidence, my self-esteem my timekeeping. It’s helped me get my life back on track and make something for myself and my daughter. I always thought I’d just be a care kid and wouldn’t go far in life and without this course and my amazing tutors and classmates I honestly don’t know where I’d be today."