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SUKI KalIraI is interim chief executive officer of SkillsActive


Cultural Heritage Blueprint to be updated


Parts of the Cultural Heritage Blueprint, the document set- ting out recommendations for the development of the sec- tor’s workforce over the next 10 years, are to be updated. Te Museums Association


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ne of SkillsActive’s main roles is helping people and organ- isations secure funding for training. Tis is increasingly


important in the current climate. We work with a number of partners to


facilitate this and one very successful part- nership is the Mayor of London’s Sports Legacy Fund. Managed by SkillsActive’s National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure, the fund is part of the Mayor’s plan for “A sporting future for London”. In exchange for volunteering hours, it provides Londoners with up to 75 per cent off of the cost of nationally recognised qualifications in areas such as coaching and officiating. To find out more, visit: http://lei.sr?a=L0D7X We also understand that being a well-


rounded worker is about having more than just vocational qualifications. It is also about having broad interests and passions, which is why SkillsActive is so pleased to work with the Nancy Ovens Bursary Trust. Nancy Ovens was a great champion of


extra-curricular learning, and a board mem- ber of Sprito, the forerunner to SkillsActive. Her legacy is a fund allowing people of all ages to improve their skills through inno- vative training – people such as Stephanie Connell and Natalie Campbell. Tanks to a £1,000 giſt from the 2011


bursary, Scottish and British national Kato champion Stephanie was able to realise her dream of studying Kato – a form of karate – in Japan. She is now sharing techniques she learnt there with the young people she coaches and has forged lasting links between her home in Scotland and Japan. Natalie used a £600 grant to fund a trip


to America to help the US rowing team with a recruitment drive for athletes to its adaptive rowing team. US Rowing were so impressed with her work, they invited her to join them at last year’s rowing world championships and at London 2012. Future applications are now being con-


sidered (the deadline is 11 May). To apply or find out more, visit: http://lei.sr?a=H7l1G


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(MA) will work with Creative and Cultural Skills (CCS) – the sector skills council – to revise the blueprint amid changes within the industry. Te original document was


published in 2008 by the MA and the Cultural Heritage Skills Advisory Panel and identified issues such as a need for “increased leadership”. MA director Mark Taylor said: “CCS has


asked the MA to update the blueprint to address priorities and ensure it reflects the current economic and political climate.


Te four-year-old document is being updated to reflect modern needs “We hope to publish the update in April so


the key issue of workforce development is up- to-date, prominent and well thought out.” Details: http://lei.sr?a=R5g7l


IHG launches new London academy


InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has unveiled its newest Hospitality Training Academy in London, which offered a programme that has been developed in partnership with Newham College. Local people will have the


opportunity to benefit from relevant training and prac- tical work experience at a hotel across one of the group’s brands at the IHG Academy. The six-month course


will combine the Hospitality Skills Diploma NVQ with four weeks of work experi- ence, which will lead to a Hospitality Level 2 Diploma. Students will also be able to apply for entry level vacancies across the IHG estate. It is one of 42 IHG Academy programmes


around the world. More than 15,000 are cur- rently employed by IHG in the UK, with 24 per cent between 18- and 24-years-old.


Te academy will offer work experience and a recognised qualification Te group has also confirmed that it is plan-


ning to make nearly 3,000 new roles available across the UK over the coming three years. IHG chief executive Richard Solomons said:


“We’re pleased to be working to create jobs and training opportunities in the UK.” Details: http://lei.sr?a=m4k4d


Local authority to relaunch Leeds parks programme


Leeds City Council (LCC) is to create 21 apprenticeship places in its parks and coun- tryside service aſter unveiling plans to relaunch an initiative for the first time in 25 years. It will be the service’s first formal apprentice- ship programme since 1984 and will see LCC


Read Leisure Opportunities online: www.leisureopportunities.co.uk/digital


work with a learning provider with the support of the National Apprenticeship Service. LCC executive board member Peter Gruen


said the local authority was working to get young people into work as a “main priority”. Details: http://lei.sr?a=G9m4x


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