About Employer Pledge Grants

Following the availability of additional funding being made available during 2006-07, we are now again able to offer Employer Pledge grants during the 2007-08 financial year, made available as part of the Welsh Assembly Government National Basic Skills Strategy for Wales, Words Talk-Numbers Count.

The funding will be allocated to companies/organisations as a (small) grant to provide basic skills learning for adults in the workplace. Those companies/organisations that have signed the Employer Pledge and, as a minimum, submitted an action plan will be eligible to apply for a grant.

Any company/organisation that was granted Employer Pledge funding in 2006-07 must have completed all the activity claimed for from that application. The grant report form must also be completed and returned before a funding application for 2007-08 will be considered.

The fund is a one off payment to promote the Employer Pledge initiative and support basic skills teaching and learning in the workplace. It is intended to complement and supplement other funding and will only be available within the present financial year of 2007-08.

The aim of a grant is to:

• Support and reward those organisations who are already showing active commitment to the Employer Pledge initiative by providing basic skills support for employees
• encourage signatories of the Pledge to move forward from commitment to active delivery
• increase the literacy, numeracy and ESOL being delivered in Employer Pledge workplaces across Wales
• promote the Employer Pledge award amongst all employers encourage companies to include basic skills teaching and learning in their ECYP workforce development programme plans offer funding fairly on merit on the basis of agreed criteria