Approved Centre
Pilot has been an Approved Centre for the City & Guilds of London Institute since April 2001. We are now an Approved Provider for the following authorities:

Awarding Bodies

City & Guilds of London Institute
 

Institute of Leadership and Management
PAAVQ-SET: for the fluids, chemical, pharmaceutical & petro-chemical and Polymer industries

Funding Bodies

European Social Fund (ESF)
The ESF is one of four Funds designed to strengthen economic and social cohesion in the European Union. .

ESF aims: the main purpose is to support the annual UK Employment Action Plan, which sets out how UK policies and initiatives take account of the Employment Guidelines established within the European Employment Strategy.

The ESF spent £578 million on employment and training projects in England in 2006. Spending in 2007 is likely to be at a similar or even higher level.

The Learning and Skills Council
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) "exists to make England better skilled and more competitive. It has a single goal: to improve the skills of England's young people and adults to ensure we have a workforce of world-class standard."

The LSC is a non-departmental public body which took over the roles of the former Further Education Funding Council and Training and Enterprise Councils in 2001.

LSC is responsible for planning and funding high quality education and training for everyone in England other than those in universities.

Experience
In our first 7 years, our commercial and industrial experience and practical approach to training has enabled us to successfully guide our learners to gain over 5000 qualifications.

We have been proving our value to their employers ever since, becoming a preferred provider for many of our client organisations. The positive impact on their operations has encouraged them to extend our services throughout their networks of companies. As a result, we have delivered workforce development courses as far afield as Sussex and Hampshire in the South and Lancashire and Yorkshire in the North.

We are an equal opportunities employer and pursue a positive equal opportunities policy towards all our employees and participants on our courses.

Inspection by the Adult Learning Inspectorate
In June 2006, we underwent a thorough inspection by officers from the Adult Learning Inspectorate, who awarded us with their highly creditable GRADE 2.

Based centrally in UK
Since 2001, we have worked predominantly within the West Midlands and Lancashire, from our base in central Birmingham. With easy access to the major Midlands motorways, we are able to give an effective service throughout a wide area of the country.

Today, we are better trained, better equipped, more experienced, more prepared and no less enthusiastic and determined to give you the most effective training support for your various operations.