The Furniture and Interiors Education, Skills and Training Alliance (FIESTA) finished 2019 on a high after confirming that eight level 2 manufacturing apprenticeship pathways will be renewed in 2020, following much campaigning by the trade body. Back in July the… Read more
Closing the Skills Gap North Conference 18th March 2020
Cedar Court Hotel, Bradford Closing the Skills Gap – Accessing Funded Training “Companies in industry must use UK training providers or risk losing them” That’s was the warning Gary Baker the Chair of Furniture & Interiors, Education, Skills & Training… Read more
Closing the Skills Gap North Conference 18th March 2020
Cedar Court Hotel, Bradford How Can Businesses Easily Access Funded Training? On the 18th March FIESTA will run a half day conference to provide businesses with guidance on how to access funded training for both apprenticeships and the upskilling of… Read more
Furnotel Attract Young Talent into British Manufacturing
More than 75% of British manufacturing companies have identified the shortage of a skilled workforce as one of their primary concerns for the future. This is certainly not a new phenomenon but is a situation that is becoming increasingly compounded… Read more
Benchmark Apprenticeship Scheme Q&A with Sean Sutcliffe, Founder and MD
‘Apprentices are investing their youth and precious years into a business. The business is duty-bound to return the level of investment. If you both want it to work, then you need to have a structured program.’ Q&A with Sean Sutcliffe,… Read more
Closing the Skills Gap Northern Conference
In April FIESTA ran its first Closing the Skills Gap conference in London (https://bit.ly/2JEnPN2) and on the 2nd July, we will be running a second event for northern based manufacturers and this will take place at the Panaz showroom in… Read more
