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 (Angel CoFund) Now Open

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.
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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

Full details of course »

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

Full details of course »

CIEH Level 2 Award in Healthier Foods and Special Diets

• Price: £75.00
• Length: 7 hours

Full details of course »

CIEH Level 3 Award in Food Safety

• Price: £220.00
• Length: 20 hours

Full details of course »

CIEH Level 3 Award in Food Safety – Refresher

• Price: £115.00
• Length: 8 hours

Full details of course »

CIEH Level 3 Award in HACCP in Catering

• Price: £105.00
• Length: 7 hours

Full details of course »

CIEH Level 3 Award in HACCP for Food Manufacturing

• Price: £105.00
• Length: 7 hours

Full details of course »

CIEH Level 4 Award in Managing Food Safety

• Price: £380.00
• Length: 40 hours

Full details of course »

“Could I make better decisions if we had better financial planning?”
“Will the end of the year be a rush to get the paperwork to my accountant?”
“I know we have to have accounts, but how can I use the information to help run the business?”

Put yourself in control – Tyro run regular workshops to provide qualifications in computerised bookkeeping and payroll

Introduction to Computerised Bookkeeping using Sage

• Price: £80.00
• Length: 21 hours

Tuesday 1.00pm to 4.30pm and Wednesday 2.00pm to 5.30pm or 6.00pm to 9.30pm

Full details of course »

Introduction to Computerised Payroll using Sage

• Price: £80.00
• Length: 21 hours

Tuesday 1.00pm to 4.30pm and Wednesday 2.00pm to 5.30pm or 6.00pm to 9.30pm

Full details of course »

IAB Level 1 Award in Computerised Bookkeeping (QCF) using Sage

• Price: £95.00
• Length: 30 hours

Tuesday 1.00pm to 4.30pm and Wednesday 2.00pm to 5.30pm or 6.00pm to 9.30pm

Full details of course »

IAB Level 2 Award in Computerised Bookkeeping (QCF) using Sage

• Price: £125.00
• Length: 45 hours

Tuesday 1.00pm to 4.30pm and Wednesday 2.00pm to 5.30pm or 6.00pm to 9.30pm

Full details of course »

IAB Level 2 Award in Computerised Payroll (QCF) using Sage

• Price: £125.00
• Length: 45 hours

Tuesday 1.00pm to 4.30pm and Wednesday 2.00pm to 5.30pm or 6.00pm to 9.30pm

Full details of course »

IAB Level 3 Award in Computerised Bookkeeping (QCF) using Sage

• Price: £180.00
• Length: 60 hours

Tuesday 1.00pm to 4.30pm and Wednesday 2.00pm to 5.30pm or 6.00pm to 9.30pm

Full details of course »

Contact tyro for more information:

01756 797266

tyro@craven-college.ac.uk

26, 27 January

£130.00

More>>>

• 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

Elderly care guide to ‘shine a light on bad practice’

Make sure that suitable training in 2012 properly supports your business

In this news:

• Training delivered at your location across the region
• First Aid for schools
• ROLO – Health & Safety training
• CPC driver training

Tyro has new venues near you and new services available in the New Year, providing a quality service at a fair price

First Aid Training at the Cairn Hotel in Harrogate

Tyro is developing regular training opportunities at venues across the region,
starting in Harrogate and Hawes.

Harrogate:

Hawes:

“I would recommend Tyro to anyone who is looking for a professional, well organised and local training provider that puts the client first.

From start to finish they have been extremely professional and the quality of the training was first class.

Helen“

First Aid for Schools Tyro runs regular Paediatric First Aid courses at our training centre Tyro regularly runs convenient courses on-site for schools See our website for more information >>> This course gives delegates the knowledge and skills to be able to respond and manage any illness or injury occurring to a child in their care, including calling for professional assistance in serious cases. This course is assessed by ongoing practical assessments plus a short multiple choice question paper. Delegates successfully completing this course will also be given an HSE Emergency First Aid at Work Certificate to help with compliance of the HSE regulations for first aid cover in the workplace.

Rolo –  Health and Safety Awareness

• For people who work within the Landscape and Ground-works sector.
• This qualification may be required when tendering for related work.

The Department of Trade & Industry made it a ‘duty of care’ that all trade bodies ensure that their members were adequately trained in Health & Safety and that all employers should show that personnel are properly trained.

The ROLO Scheme (Registration of Land Based Operatives) is open to anyone who works in the Land Based Industry. This includes labour only, self-employed and employees of companies. On completion of a one day Land Based Health & Safety Course, a card (including photograph) would be issued to the applicant, similar to a credit card. This is issued to an individual and will be valid for 5 years. Any other relevant training, i.e. NPTC Pesticide, chain saw, ride on mowers etc would also be acknowledged on the card.

The aims of the scheme are to:

• Provide a means of identification
• Keep a record of workers in the landbased industry who have achieved a recognised level of competence
• Raise the standards of Health and Safety to reduce the risks and accidents throughout the industry
• Encourage employers to use only ROLO card holders who have accredited Health and Safety Training.

For more information contact Nigel Simpson:

nsimpson@craven-college.ac.uk

01756 797266

providing quality training, consultancy and support services at a fair price

“Hi Hazel

Yes, I would definitely say that the NVQ2 programme has been extremely successful as far as Alpha Care is concerned.  The service users and staff alike have benefited.  Our quality of care has increased due to the excellent training.  Staff have been more motivated and their undestanding of care delivery has increased tremendously.  In fact, where there was a reluctance previously to take up the training, it is now being requested!

Gayle”

Our regular dates for open workshops are available from the Tyro web site here >>

• Background on all our services are available here >>

• BDteam@tyrotraining.co.uk
• 01756 797266

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

Tyro (the commercial training division of Craven College) this week participated in an international conference held in Cairo to showcase the best international projects supported by the British Council’s Skills for Employability project*. Delegates came not only from the UK and Egypt, but also across the region, including Tunisia, Yemen and Libya.

Tyro has established a very successful partnership with EBI, based in Cairo, and over the last 12 months has worked with the Institute. We have successfully delivered training in Cairo – to clients and EBI staff – and have written practically based training programmes for them as well as developing the skills of their trainers.

During the conference, the British Council presented an inaugural award for the most outstanding partnership in the Middle and Near East and North Africa, shortlisting Craven College’s partnership with the Egyptian Banking Institute (EBI). In presenting the awards, the British Council commented that the partnership between Tyro and EBI is now well established and delivering excellent results, achieving all the targets set for the project. Strong involvement of employers in the project and a strong progress towards sustainability of the partnership in the longer term are particularly recognised.

David Llewellyn, Tyro’s Director of International Projects, says: “whilst disappointed not to win the award outright, we are really delighted to be shortlisted as this acknowledges the strong partnership which has been established in spite of the difficult political situation in Egypt. It also recognises that the partnership is providing real impact and gives EBI and Tyro a wonderful platform to build on the successful first year of the partnership and develop a close working relationship in the longer term”.

Zeinab Abdel Razek, EBI’s Executive Director for International Partnerships, commented “we are delighted to be working with Tyro, who are very flexible and responsive to our requests. The strength of our partnership, built on mutual respect and cooperation, is underlined by this success at the conference”.

* The Skills for Employability Project is funded by the British Council, and aims to promote skills development and increase the employability of young people in the Middle and Near East and North Africa by encouraging close links between education and industry. The views expressed in this document are not necessarily those of the British Council