Firm offers free support to young people
IN APRIL last year, just as the UK entered the first lockdown, Brighouse-based learning and development company, Lattitude7, was offering support to people by providing online resources, many of which are freeof-charge.
At that time, Lattitude7 had positioned three online programmes: “Get Ready for Work”, designed to promote opportunity through social mobility for young people who were out of work or at risk of redundancy; “Health and Fitness”, books for adults and children; and “Funded personal development/team training”.
The heads-up videos for all three strands can be accessed via the links at www.lattitude7.co.uk/posts. As home working continued throughout 2020, Martin Haigh, founder of Lattitude7, got to work creating additional resources in response to the increasing demand for virtual learning.
Martin said: “Alongside the CSR activities to help young people find employment, five new programmes have been created and delivered many times over the past 10 months. These are designed to help people learn essential skills for effectiveness in the workplace.”
Martin added: “A lot of the content in these programmes attracts 40 per cent funding through the West Yorkshire Consortium of Colleges (WYCC) under their Higher Performing Workplaces (HPW) initiative. Initially, the funding was only available to SMEs, but the scope has now been expanded to include larger employers and public sector bodies, if they are based in the Leeds LEP region.
“Under this framework, Lattitude7 won contracts to provide training in leadership, innovative working, import/export, HR principles, coaching, mentoring and Appreciative Inquiry/World Café events.”
For further information on the range of programmes and available funding, contact Martin Haigh via www.lattitude7. co.uk.
‘These are designed to help people learn essential skills for effectiveness in the workplace’
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