Feedback from customers who have benefitted from our funding

"As an entrepreneur I run a few businesses, and own some great generic web names such as www.prams.co.uk."

"I wanted to develop my internet businesses but didn’t have the necessary skills to tackle the projects."

"I found all the courses I needed for web design at The Training Foundry, but the cost of the courses put me off. I then I received an email from The Training Foundry offering 60% funding. My decision was made; I immediately booked myself on all the courses and made use of the “free money” from the Enhancement Fund."

"I haven’t completed all the courses yet, but I estimate I will save myself around £15k next year."

"2010 should be a good year."

Vincent Nolan, Cantilever Racking Company Ltd
www.2vn.co.uk

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"We identified a need to bring both the management and creative elements of our website in-house."

"The main reasons for doing this are to enable us to respond quickly to market opportunities by keeping our web site up to date whilst reducing the cost of future web development and maintenance. To achieve our objectives we needed to up skill our in house team and this meant identifying a suitable training provider. As a training provider ourselves we wanted to ensure we achieved both quality and value for money."

"We approached a number of organisations including The Training Foundry at Sheffield Hallam University. The Training Foundry came up with the most comprehensive and competitive proposal for training that would enable all aspects of our online presence to be brought in house. Their courses also covered all aspects of our digital and print publishing. In addition key parts of the training were accredited."

"We had high expectations of what the training would enable us to do and have not been disappointed. As well as reducing costs in the medium term it will mean that we can react quickly to opportunities and changes in our market."

"These courses have transformed my role in the company. I have been given an excellent grounding in the subject and look forward to putting the training in to practice in a commercial environment."

Ben Woodcock
Business Support Coordinator
Premier Partnership

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"The funding has enabled me to complete training in Adobe Dreamweaver, therefore enabling me to create and build our College's website rather than continuously paying for outside companies to do this for us. Now I have knowledge of the software I can also help students with their work if needed, as Dreamweaver is now a part of their ICT courses. It has also helped my personal progression by giving me the opportunity to gain the ACA Dreamweaver qualification."

"I thoroughly enjoyed the courses at the Training Foundry, the trainer was fantastic and everyone at the Training Foundry is extremely friendly and helpful... I'm really looking forward to going back to continue with the rest of my Dreamweaver training!"

Sarah Ward
Westfield Sports College

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"TCM Solutions is a specialist IT Managed Services company providing services primarily to users of HP NonStop Server platform and Cerner Millennium Healthcare application."

"In order to continue recent growth in these markets, TCM Solutions identified that to complement the company certification in ISO20000 IT Service Management standard; all front-line employees would also require certification to the recently released Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL®) Framework Version 3 standard."

"Traditional training methods would have required significant investment from TCM Solutions at a time of reducing budgets and margins in existing contracts. Using The Training Foundry together with the availability of the Enhancement Fund allowed TCM Solutions to put all relevant staff through the necessary training in a relatively short period of time giving the company an additional Unique Selling Point to the market."

Colin Yates
TCM Solutions Ltd

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"Software training at The Training Foundry is really beneficial to our company Othick UK by enhancing the skills we are able to use to communicate with our customers via our website www.othick.co.uk ."

"In addition, their training centre enables discussion in person with like-minded people: an excellent means of discovering up-to-date, available and useful new technologies, this proving much more advantageous to SMEs like ourselves than pure online learning. This is particularly useful for companies that may be geographically isolated from Yorkshire’s main cities and without the support of locally active branches of organisations such as the BCS."

"Training costs are difficult to prioritise in this current economic climate, although this is just the time we most need to reach out and inform potential new and returning customers, especially as we are hoping to promote green technologies further as a key part of our business, so having external funding from the Enhancement Fund towards costs has made all the difference."

"We were personally recommended The Training Foundry and are happy to recommend them ourselves."

Binka Gwynne
Othick UK

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"It’s still too early to tell how the training will pay off, but the funding helped us enormously. Being a small company we have to be very careful were and how we spend any money, so getting the funding made the decision of putting the training in place an easier one. In fact we have already enrolled onto the second level course, which we hope will develop any skills further."

"As already mentioned we are only a small company playing in a market with large multinational companies as our competitors, and one of the biggest obstacles was making the customer aware of our presence. We hope that in time the skills learned will enable us to develop and maintain our website without incurring large design charges every time we need to add a new product or market a new service, giving us a greater control in how our business is seen online."

"Once again thank you and the team for your all your help."

Mark Davis
Advanced Fluid Technologies Ltd