How we can work for you

CIPs provides Learning, Skills & Enterprise Services for People and Businesses that:

Are highly responsive to individual, employer & community demand
Enable achievement & progression for all regardless of their starting point
Through innovation and flexibility, increase and widen participation, and lead to higher levels of success

We work closely with small businesses so they can learn new skills and increase their profitability. We make vital training available to large companies for their staff, delivering within the college or in the workplace. We listen to our businesses to ensure we tailor training to suit their needs, developing new qualifications to industry standards. All this has helped us win many national awards and international accolades for our exemplary work engaging with employers.

We are recognised for our outstanding delivery of programmes for employers. Including training we provide specialist information and advice to businesses. Specialist advisors provide support in areas such as business mentoring, health checks, masterclasses, trade networks and essential business skills.

With state of the art facilities such as the Fashion and Textile Museum the knowledge hub for the fashion, textile and jewellery sectors, a Discovery Lab promoting emerging technologies, a Retail Academy and the Women’s Business Centre we provide realistic environments for learning to gain new knowledge and skills.

In addition to this, due to our successful work on the regeneration agenda and creative use of European and other funding, we have a number of bespoke business services and support programmes for businesses in East London, especially for budding women entrepreneurs. Since 1997 the Centre for Innovation and Partnerships has been successfully working with local, national and international organisations to provide innovative and practical ways of helping businesses succeed.

Our commitment to employers is to:

Deal with enquiries in an efficient, professional and friendly manner responding within five working days.
Assign a named skills consultant to each employer.
Provide details of our business support and training services.
Work with the employer to assess and identify their business/training needs.
Offer solutions which reflect the needs of the business and its sector.
Deliver flexible training and support using only qualified and experienced trainers.
Respect for all in a supportive and secular environment.
Offer a risk assessed safe and healthy learning environment.
Provide flexible training opportunities to support employees with specific training needs.
Regularly review the support with both the employer and employees where appropriate.
Provide the employer and employees the opportunity to feedback on the level of service and delivery.