Employer Area

Our offer to local businesses

New Directions working with employers

Apprenticeships

Introduction to Apprenticeships with New Directions College

Local Skills Improvement Partnership

Responding to Berkshire’s Local Skills Improvement Plan

Let us know how we can support you and your business

New Directions College is working with businesses and employers across Reading and central Berkshire, to offer a range of support services, that include:

  • Skills and training
  • Workforce development support and succession planning
  • Talent pipelines with sector-based work experience programmes
  • Recruitment support – help filling vacancies
  • Response to redundancy – we support employers to provide support to their staff if they are at risk of redundancy
  • Apprenticeship delivery (see below for more information and click on our apprenticeships page)
  • Carbon Literacy training
  • Leadership and Management training
  • Access to training facilities, including a state of the art training kitchen
  • Government funding support – advice and guidance about the latest government funding available to employers.