Lancashire 'skills swap' service launched

A new service has launched to help Lancashire businesses exchange skills and expertise, while finding training and volunteering opportunities for those not currently at work.

Created by the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership's Skills and Employment Hub, the new programme helps businesses reach a wider audience when recruiting, enables organisations to offer their skills and expertise to others, helps employers to train their staff even when furloughed, and identifies volunteering opportunities for furloughed staff.

Steve Fogg, chair of the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership, said: "At this time more than ever, the skills needs of all businesses are changing rapidly. There are now huge skills demands in certain sectors and a supply of people who are not currently working from other sectors.

“We saw that there was no single place for Lancashire's business community to communicate opportunities and needs for addressing the skills needs of Lancashire. This service is here to help."