The Peterborough Evening Telegraph
£3m plan unveiled for training school
New venture will train engineering apprentices
A leading engineering company is to build a training school after securing a £3.16 million grant.
Queen’s Award- winning Stainless Metalcraft, based in Chatteris, will build the new facility to provide vocational training for between 80 and 130 apprentices per year.
The funding for the venture will be provided by the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority Local Growth Fund.
The training school will be built onMetalcraft’s Chatteris site.
It will offer training programmes covering a range of vocational subjects, with the training school being run by a specialist provider, whichwill beappointedthroughapublic tender process.
Construction of the school is expectedtobeginbeforethe end of the year and it is hoped it will becompletedbytheend of 2021.
Martin Lawrence, commercialdirectoratMetalcraft, said: “We’re really pleased to have signed this funding contract with the combined authority. Creating opportunities for young people to develop the skills they need to embark on long-term, rewarding careers is a key part of our ethos and, through the development of this new centre, we are excited to play our part in extending this opportunity to a greater number of people across a wider range of subject areas.”
James Palmer, mayor of Cambridgeshire and PeterboroughCombinedAuthority, said: “The vocational training schoolwill provideafantastic, state-of-the-art facility for local peopletodeveloptheskills and experience they need to secure sustainable employment.”