Some of your staff may benefit from additional support in literacy and numeracy or may wish to achieve a Skills for Life qualification for the skills they already have. We can help identify problem areas and provide your employees with any support they might need to improve their basic skills as part of the Skills for Life national strategy for improving adult literacy, numeracy and language.

We also have the facilities to carry out on-line adult literacy and numeracy tests up to GCSE level. For further information on Skills for Life, please contact Wendy Hirst on 01253 403394.

A number of employers and their staff across the Fylde area have benefited from the College’s Skills for Life provision.

Case Study - Booths, Lytham

Simon Boothman (pictured), Manager of Booths new Lytham Store, comments, “The offer of the Skills for Life qualification delivered by Blackpool and The Fylde College has been embraced wholeheartedly by the staff in our new store in Lytham".

"They see this opportunity to gain a National Qualification as a worthwhile accomplishment for future progression within their job, as well as their personal self-confidence and self-satisfaction.”

Carol Norcott, Booths Company Training Manager, adds, "The positive partnership between Booths and Blackpool and the Fydle College was instigated during recruitment and assessment of staff for our new Lytham Store. This has resulted in the introduction of innovative training, which has proved to be successful and will now be cascaded to other branches of Booths in the near future."

Booths staff receiving their nationally recognised literacy and numeracy qualifications during a presentation at the new Lytham Store.