Making Quality Training More Accessible Through Funded Opportunities
Explore funded training opportunities for individuals and organisations, made possible through partnerships, public funding and community investment.
Partnerships That Create Opportunities
Our funded training opportunities give individuals and organisations access to quality training where some or all of the cost has been covered by a funder, commissioner or partner.
Opportunities change throughout the year and may be supported by local authorities, public bodies, businesses or other organisations investing in skills and communities.
Each programme has its own eligibility criteria, which may relate to location, employment, sector or other funding requirements.
Explore the programmes currently available below, or sign up for training updates to hear about new funded opportunities as they become available.
Explore our current funded programmes and find out what training is available, who can take part and how to book.
Funded online training for eligible SMEs, VCSEs and diverse-owned businesses across Kent and North Wales.
Read moreSodexo Funded Training Programme 2026–27
Funded skills training supporting people to develop their careers and helping employers strengthen their health and social care workforce.
Read moreEmployer Led Skills Bootcamp
Can't Find the Right Funded Training?
Funded programmes and eligibility change throughout the year. Sign up for our training newsletter to hear about new opportunities, or tell us what training would benefit you or your organisation.
Fund Training Through SEK
Turn Your Social Value Commitments into Practical Training Opportunities
If your organisation is looking to invest in local skills, support communities or deliver against CSR, social value or community investment commitments, we can help turn that investment into practical training opportunities.
SEK can design and deliver funded training around the people, places and priorities that matter to your organisation. You might want to fund places for local charities, support a particular workforce or community, commission training within a specific geographical area, or develop a programme around an identified social value commitment.
Our training infrastructure means we can support the programme from initial design through to learner recruitment, booking, delivery and reporting. Depending on your objectives, this could range from sponsoring places on an existing course to developing a bespoke funded training programme.
As a Community Interest Company rooted in Kent and Medway, we combine established training delivery with knowledge of local organisations, communities and workforce needs.
How Could Your Organisation Get Involved?
Sponsor Training Places
Fund places on existing courses for an identified community, workforce or group of organisations.
Fund a Training Programme
Commission a programme of training around a particular theme, sector, location or identified need.
Support Local VCSE Organisations
Invest in skills and capacity-building for charities, social enterprises and community organisations.
Deliver Social Value Commitments
Work with us to develop training activity connected to relevant social value, community investment or contractual commitments.
Commission Something Bespoke
Tell us what you are trying to achieve and we can explore a training response designed around your objectives, audience and available funding.
Evidence Your Investment
Funded training should create more than attendance figures. We can agree appropriate measures at the start of a programme and provide proportionate reporting against the activity commissioned.
Depending on the programme, reporting can include:
- bookings, attendance and course completion
- organisations and sectors reached
- geographical reach
- learner feedback and evaluation
- certificates issued
- agreed learner or programme outcomes
- case studies where appropriate and consented
- financial value of training delivered
- additional reporting or evaluation agreed as part of the commission
If you have specific reporting requirements or KPIs, talk to us at the outset so these can be considered when the programme is designed.
Previous Funded Training Programmes
We’ve worked with public-sector organisations, funders and businesses to make training available to individuals, organisations and communities across Kent and Medway. Explore some of our previous funded programmes and the training opportunities they created.
Please note: The programmes below have now ended. The information on their pages are retained to provide an overview of the programme and training delivered. Courses and funded places previously offered through these programmes are no longer available.
Featured Previous Programmes
Completed Funded training supporting 115 participants from 59 organisations across Kent and North Wales.
Read moreSodexo Funded Training Programme 2025–26
Frequently Asked Questions
Funded training is training where some or all of the cost has been covered by another organisation, such as a local authority, public body, business or other funding partner.
Many of our funded opportunities are available at no cost to eligible learners or organisations because the training has already been paid for by a funder or partner. Some programmes may be subsidised rather than fully funded, so always check the individual programme details.
Eligibility varies between programmes and may depend on factors such as location, employment status, sector or organisation type. Each programme page explains its current eligibility requirements.
New funded programmes become available at different times throughout the year. Sign up for our training newsletter to hear about new opportunities, or tell us what training you're looking for.
Funding is often provided to support a particular community, workforce, geographical area or objective. Eligibility criteria help ensure funded places reach the people or organisations the programme was designed to support.
Yes. Businesses, commissioners and other organisations can work with us to fund training places or develop programmes around particular communities, sectors, locations or objectives.
Potentially, yes. We can discuss what your organisation is seeking to achieve and explore whether funded training could contribute to relevant CSR, social value, workforce development or community investment commitments.
Reporting can be agreed according to the programme and may include participation, completion, organisations reached, geographical reach, learner feedback and agreed outcomes. If you have specific KPIs or reporting requirements, these should be discussed when the programme is designed.
VIEW ALL PREVIOUS FUNDED PROGRAMMES
Completed Funded training helping organisations build skills and capability through an award-recognised partnership with Sodexo.
Read moreSodexo Funded Training Programme 2024–25
Completed Funded training supporting Thanet VCSE leaders to strengthen skills, governance, resilience and organisational capacity.
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