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February 18, 2011 Leave a Comment
Free Business Event
February 24, 2012 Leave a Comment
Training & Business Support Event
Leeds, York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce Roadshow
15th March 2012 – Crescent House Skipton
Drop-in throughout the day to learn more about the services from
Tyro, LYNY Chamber and Craven College
Craven College will be providing catering & hospitality – discuss how this quality service can be provided for your business
PLUS
We are delighted to invite you to our ‘Chamber Road Show’, an informative, informal session, designed specifically for businesses in your community. Leeds, York and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce is bringing the team to you, to offer support to your business and help you flourish in 2012. So whether you are a relatively new business, or building an existing business, we want to meet you to help you with your plans. Don’t miss this opportunity to kick start your business growth in 2012
Workshops / Tasters from Tyro
- Achieving efficiencies and quality – the business benefits explained
- Quality and Leadership Awareness
- Management versus Markets
- Total Quality Management Systems
- Change Strategies
- Planning the Future
- Quality and Leadership Awareness
- Leadership – How to develop your workforce and which route to take
- Providing vision, direction and passion
- Awareness of the capabilities and limitations of a team
- Leadership style
- Situational leadership
- Team building
- Communications
- Conflict Management
- The role of a Leader as a Coach
- First Aid
- We have a great team of First Aid trainers – see how we deliver First Aid training to businesses
- Beginners WordPress
- Learn how to start using WordPress to build a website or news blog for your business – for free
- Beginners Twitter
- Learn how to start using Twitter to promote your business
- Beginners Microsoft Excel
- Learn how Microsoft Excel can help your office run more profitably
- CRM Systems
- See the benefits for your business of running a CRM (Contact Relationship Management) system to manage your customers – from as little as £10 per month
- Apprenticeships
- Learn how Apprentices can benefit your business – an opportunity to obtain current information including a question and answer session
See below for workshop times
Contact us on 01756 797266 / bdteam@tyrotraining.co.uk to book a place on any of these workshops
Training for businesses in the Harrogate area
February 23, 2012 Leave a Comment
Tyro has had strong links with Harrogate for many years, delivering training courses to businesses and individuals.
We appreciate that these are difficult times for business and have developed a programme of additional timetabled workshops in Harrogate for your convenience, adding to our regular Skipton workshops and on-site delivery at your venue for larger organisations.
Contact us NOW for help and advice:
Customer Services 01756 797266
Email: BDteam@tyrotraining.co.uk
Business Angel Co Investment Fund Now Open
January 26, 2012 Leave a Comment
Business Angel Co Investment Fund (Angel CoFund) Now Open |
| It is an equity funding scheme that invests alongside business angel syndicates, designed to boost the quality and quantity of business angel investing in England, and to support long-term, high quality jobs in growing companies.
Initial equity investments of between £100,000 and £1 million will be made in SMEs alongside syndicates of business angels, subject to certain geographical restrictions. The Fund will provide up to 49% (although by preference will be a smaller proportion) of the capital in investment rounds ranging from £200,000 upwards. The size of the investment proposed needs to be significant enough to properly fund the business and to allow for the cost of proper due diligence and legal advice. The Fund is not open to direct approaches from individual businesses and those seeking investment should first secure the interest of the business angel syndicate or network. Businesses seeking investment can find more information on business angels, syndicates and networks from the British Business Angels Association website at: http://www.bbaa.org.uk. Investee companies must fall within the European Commission SME definition (headcount not exceeding 250, turnover not exceeding €50 million and balance sheet assets not exceeding €43 million). The business can be from within any industrial sector and whilst it is anticipated that the majority of beneficiaries will be early-stage high growth companies, SMEs at any stage of their lifecycle are eligible providing they have the required level of investment from the angel syndicate. Applications for support may be submitted at any time. |
Food Safety Training
January 12, 2012 Leave a Comment
Tyro offers a wide range of Food Safety Training from centres in Skipton, Scarborough and at convenient venues across Yorkshire & Lancashire
Dates to remember:
Food Safety update – 26 March
Level 3 – 22, 23, 27 February
Food Safety – Background Information >>
BDteam@tyrotraining.co.uk 01756 797266
Course Information:
Food Safety Update
- Price: £40.00
- Length: 4 hours
CIEH Level 2 Award in Food Safety
- Price: £65.00
- Length: 7 hours
Option not to sit the exam and receive a Tyro certificate at a cost of £56.00 per person
CIEH Level 2 Award in Healthier Foods and Special Diets
- Price: £75.00
- Length: 7 hours
CIEH Level 3 Award in Food Safety
- Price: £220.00
- Length: 20 hours
CIEH Level 3 Award in Food Safety – Refresher
- Price: £115.00
- Length: 8 hours
CIEH Level 3 Award in HACCP in Catering
- Price: £105.00
- Length: 7 hours
CIEH Level 3 Award in HACCP for Food Manufacturing
- Price: £105.00
- Length: 7 hours
CIEH Level 4 Award in Managing Food Safety
- Price: £380.00
- Length: 40 hours
SAGE – IAB Computerised Bookkeeping & Payroll Training
January 6, 2012 Leave a Comment
| Do you find some of these questions familiar?
“Could I make better decisions if we had better financial planning?” |
Put yourself in control – Tyro run regular workshops to provide qualifications in computerised bookkeeping and payroll
Don’t let your First Aid Certificate run out! – First Aid at Work refresher workshop
January 5, 2012 Leave a Comment
This course updates skills and knowledge and helps rebuild confidence for those who hold the First Aid at Work Certificate. This refresher course must be taken before the First Aid at Work Certificate expires – if the course is taken within 3 months prior to the expiry date the new certificate will be dated from the date of expiry. This course is assessed through short multiple choice question papers followed by practical skills assessments.
26, 27 January
£130.00
Paediatric First Aid Training Opportunity – be quick
December 19, 2011 Leave a Comment
We have a two day Paediatric First Aid course running in Harrogate on 30/31 January.
- Cost: £75.00 per person
- Venue: The Cairn Hotel, Harrogate
- What you get: Paediatric First Aid Certificate – the course delivered will also provide an Emergency Aid at Work Certificate
Places still remaining, book now: tyro@craven-college.ac.uk / 01756 797266
CPC training in the North of England
December 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
In a recent article, Mike Morgan of transport industry magazine ‘Route-One’ interviewed Trevor King from Tyro Training:
TYRO TRAINING: DRIVER CPC
TAILORED TO WORK
Despite what many drivers are reporting, Driver CPC training can be beneficial and enjoyable. Mike Morgan meets Trevor King, a trainer who speaks their language
If you believe what some drivers are saying, the compulsory 35 hours of periodic training that has to be completed every five years in order to retain their category D entitlement to drive a bus or coach for hire or reward is irrelevant and boring. Not so, says Trevor King of Yorkshire-based Tyro Training.
Tyro Training is the commercial training division of Craven College and offers an extensive range of training to industry and business through centres in Skipton, Scarborough and at Leeds-Bradford International Airport, as well as on client company’s own premises.
Since its establishment in 1997 Tyro has provided specialist training to a wide variety of business sectors, including transport and logistics.
Tyro offers a wide range of courses, including Information Technology, First Aid, Finance, Health & Safety, Leadership and Management, Marketing and Promotions, Licensing Qualifications, Land Based and Trades, Electrical, Food Safety, Care Related, Personal Skills, NVQs and Apprenticeships.
However, when compulsory training in order to obtain the Driver Certificate of Professional Competence, the Driver CPC, came into effect in September 2008, Tyro did not have specialist courses available. Nevertheless, in April 2009 Trevor, a coach and bus driver with teaching experience, was recruited as Driver CPC Business Adviser and Trainer to help develop the courses that would enable Tyro to compete for business in the goods and passenger sectors.
From the start he realised that the idea of sitting drivers down for a seven-hour training session five times within five years could be a daunting prospect. Although the first thing was to get the course content right in terms of relevance to the drivers, Trevor says that the most important thing is how the training is delivered.
It helps, of course, that Trevor has a jovial and friendly disposition, while his many years experience have taught him that Driver CPC training needed the type of skills to either pacify a disgruntled passenger boarding a late-running bus, or help a coach-load of pensioners get the most out of their day trip.
He’s also been among drivers in coach, bus and truck depots, knows their language, understands their attitude to being compelled to a ‘day in the class room,’ and has first-hand experience of the problems they face.
He says that he starts by having a joke and a laugh. But, aware of the scope for misunderstandings over drivers’ hours and a general lack of awareness of the content of the latest Highway Code, he soon fires some pertinent questions around the group.”As soon as they realise that they don’t know everything and are often way out of date, they start to sit up and take notice,” he says.
Since joining Tyro Trevor has taken a PTLLS course (Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector) in order to update his teaching style and get to grips with modern media.
Tyro now offers the following three-and-a-half-hour Driver CPC modules as part of a seven hour modular course:
• Drivers’ hours & working time laws
• Drivers’ records and tachographs
• Defensive and safe driving
• Drivers’ daily walk round checks (LGV or PCV)
• Health and safety principles in the transport industry
• Health and safety practice for LGV drivers
• Health and safety practice for PCV drivers
• Customer care principles
• Customer care practice for LGV drivers
• Customer care practice for PCV drivers
• Basic first aid
• Manual handling
• Bad weather driving skills
• Fuel saving driving techniques
• Out in three – Emergency vehicle evacuation for PCV drivers
The standard HSE Emergency First Aid at Work one-day course has also been registered for Driver CPC. This gives operators a wide choice of modules and a total of nearly 60 hours training available.
Trevor stresses that the Driver CPC can, indeed should, be tailored to an individual operator’s specific requirements or operating procedures. For example, it can incorporate company paperwork, reiterate company policies and priorities, or cover topics specific to a particular operation.
This important flexibility in response to customer demand means new modules have to be written and JAUPT approval sort. These include Bad Weather Driving (already approved), and The Safe Transport of Horses by Road, and Food Safety for Delivery Drivers.
Tyro offers in-company courses delivered either on the client’s premises or at a suitable local venue, and ‘open courses’ advertised generally and usually delivered at Tyro designated premises.
At present Tyro has over 50 client companies throughout Yorkshire and Humberside region, of which around 50% are PCV operators, plus numerous individuals who have attended ‘open courses’.
“In the last 12 months over 90 days training have been delivered, and the take-up rate is increasing as the September 2013 deadline for completing the first 35 hours of training approaches,” says Trevor.”Many operators want training at the weekends and this has led to additional part-time trainers being recruited, both for HGV and PCV courses. All have extensive industry experience as well as formal trainer’s qualifications. “A major strength of Tyro Training’s Driver CPC provision is that all the trainers still work in the industry.” Trevor says: “I love driving so I try to keep my hand in as often as possible. And because of the general shortage of drivers in the industry operators for whom we’ve delivered training are often asking if we can do odd days driving for them.”
FACT FILE
Company name: Tyro Training
Contact: Trevor King
Address: Units 11 – 14 Cayley Court,
Hopper Hill Road, Eastfield,
Scarborough Y0113YJ
Tel: 01723 588072
Email: tking@craven-college.ac.uk
Website: www.tyrotraining.co.uk
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