Businesses accessing training via the government’s Help to Grow: Management programme will now be permitted to put forward two participants for the scheme.
The Help to Grow: Management scheme offers business leaders 50 hours of leadership and management training across 12 weeks, backed by £220 million of government funding, which covers 90% of the costs involved.
The scheme offers development opportunities for leaders and their staff, helping to drive up productivity and business growth. While previously businesses could only have a single colleague take part in the scheme, eligibility criteria have been updated so that businesses with 10 or more employees will be eligible to have up to 2 participants join the scheme. Additionally, previous participants on the Small Business Leadership Programme will now be eligible to join the scheme.
Small Business Minister Paul Scully said:
Again and again, business leaders are telling us how much they are benefiting from the Help to Grow: Management scheme both personally, and in the results they see in their companies and from their staff.
By expanding the scheme even further, more and more people will benefit from what Help to Grow: Management has to offer – including within the same business – and more organisations can thrive and grow.
Courses have been running at business schools across the UK since June 2021 including in Greater Manchester at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Business School.
While access to the scheme is widening, other Help to Grow: Management eligibility criteria will remain the same. For example, the applicant must still be a senior decision maker such as a Chief Executive or Finance Director, and any business must employ between five and 249 people to send at least one employee.
The Help to Grow: Management scheme sits alongside the Grow: Digital scheme.
