A TRAINING company has got a new name and is planning to expand.

Skills Fix Limited is seeking funding to tap into to as it looks to find new offices in the county with land attached so it can offer even more indoor and outdoor training courses to small and medium-sized companies.

Owner Colette Barnard, who has clients across the North of England and Scotland, has decided to focus mainly on the Cumbria and north Lancashire area in future because she wants to help upskill the local workforce and keep training spending within the local area.

She said: “I currently source training and have a good portfolio of tutors and training providers who are happy to deliver in our area. Those who need training in Cumbria are sometimes having to go out of the county, often to places like Manchester, for that training as, while there are some training companies in Cumbria, these might not be running the courses they need at that time and there is also no space for outdoor training at my existing premises. This is obviously costly and time consuming for the companies needing training and not good for the local economy.

“I want to have the flexibility to offer training when it fits in with the client and keep the money spent on training within the local economy. Having new premises for indoor and outdoor training in this area would allow me to do that, using my tutors and in collaboration with other local training providers.”

Skills Fix organises all aspects of training, including health and safety, such as working at height.