Collectively the Welsh hospitality and food service sectors could save up to £5 million a year simply through better resource planning, reducing the amount of waste they produce and recycling more. Resource efficiency experts WRAP Cymru have developed a comprehensive package of support specifically designed to meet the needs of small and medium businesses (SMEs) working in the
Hospitality, Tourism, Food and Drink service and manufacturing
sectors
Read more: Hospitality, Tourism, Food & Drink
The Digital Tourism Business Project has a mission to move the tourism industry in Wales to full digital maturity by the end of 2014. The Visit Wales:Share Wales web site is an important part of this effort: an eclectic mix of information, news, assistance, training and shared content.
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The Skills Growth Wales (SGW) programme from Welsh Government is able to offer potentially £2500 per person for skills development/ training.
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The Leonardo de Vinci programme provides an opportunity for graduates, young professionals and vocationally trained people to undergo a 1-3 month work placement from Europe to Wales in their own field of training and expertise.
Read more: ECTARC
A unique £4.9m centre of excellence to help smaller businesses in the Convergence areas of Wales take advantage of emerging mobile technologies.
Read more: Elevate Cymru
The Government are offering wage subsidies worth up to £2,275 each, for employers who recruit an 18-24 year-old through the Work Programme. Wage subsidies are available to employers (large or small) who employ an eligible young person for at least 16 hours a week in a job lasting at least 26 weeks.
Read more: Youth Contract - Wage Subsidy
A unique £4.9m centre of excellence to help smaller businesses in the Convergence areas of Wales take advantage of emerging mobile technologies.
Read more: CEMAS
If you haven’t worked for some time, and your circumstances make it difficult for you to get back into learning, training or work, Genesis may be able to support you to take the first steps towards training and employment.
Read more: Genesis Carmarthenshire
If you haven't worked for some time, and your circumstances make it difficult for you to get back into learning, training or work, Genesis may be able to support you to take the first steps towards a brighter future.
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We offer a variety of services to help you recruit and retain graduate staff. You could benefit from offering work experience to a student or graduate, take advantage of the cash support for staff training, recruit a student or graduate through a work placement or advertise a vacancy free of charge.
Read more: GO Wales
Dr Louise Emanuel, of the University’s School of Business said “Sense of Place is fundamentally about people, the way in which throughout time they have stamped their mark on the landscape, the way they have interpreted their personal and social history and the way in which they have interacted, and continue to interact with each other, and with their locality.
Read more: Hercules
The IT for Rural Enterprises' project will to improve the employment opportunities of individuals as well as increase the use of ICT to boost business perfomance across the rural economy.
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The graduate works full-time within the company on a project central to its needs and is jointly supervised by company personnel and a senior academic. Knowledge Transfer Partnerships provide resources and expertise to thriving organisations that wish to innovate, expand or improve their performance.
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Lead Wales is an £8m project aiming to help develop 700 businesses in convergence areas of Wales (West Wales, North West Wales and the Vallyers).
Read more: LEAD
The mCommunity project will provide small businesses with bespoke support to identify particular needs in personal and professional development.
Read more: mCommunity
The modern skills diploma is an all-age,level 4 DCELLS commissioned apprenticeshipe style work based learning model (branded 'modern skills diploma') programme.
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ProAct is aimed at minimising the number of redundancies in Wales whilst encouraging companies to focus on new business opportunities, in preparation for the economic upturn.
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ReAct (Redundancy Action scheme) aims to address the needs of people who have been made redundant, or are under notice of redundancy, through a series of measures designed to remove barriers to obtaining new employment.
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The Regional Learning Partnership project - cross sector partnership led by Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council will bring together a range of organisations to improve collaboration and deliver more efficient services to drive forward skills, learning and regeneration in Neath Port Talbot, Swansea, Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire, and Ceredigion.
Read more: Regional Learning Partnership
The Rural IT Wales project is part financed by the European Social Fund through the Welsh Assembly Government.
Read more: Rural IT Wales
SUPPORT FOR COASTAL AND MARINE BUSINESSES
Seacams is a new strategic development to integrate research and
business opportunities around the coast of Wales.
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Through the collaboration of the SWW Further Education Colleges the project will adopt an innovative 'sector-based' approach to the delivery of vocational and generic skills training to 11,584 employed individuals, raising skill levels, and assisting employers and enterprises to adapt to economic change.
Read more: Skills for Industry
What are Business ICT Workshops?
Software Alliance Wales (SAW) acknowledges and supports the need for increasing higher level ICT skills across all businesses and industry sectors.
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Step assist in the reduction and removal of barriers to learning, helping beneficiaries to enrich their lives and communities.
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The Wales Co-operative Centre is a co-operative development agency working across Wales to promote social, financial and digital inclusion through a range of projects.
Read more: Wales Co-operative Centre
Following the success of Workways, the Neath Port Talbot Transitional Employment Initiative, funding has been secured to provide over 9,000 economically inactive and long term unemployed people across South West Wales with back to work support.
Read more: Workways