SOCIAL VALUE
(Empowering Undervalued Talent)

High-Skill Training & Career Pathways

We provide industry-standard training to ensure our trainees become productive project planners from day one.

Key elements include:

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• Primavera P6 Scheduling: Trainees master Oracle Primavera P6 (the leading project scheduling software), learning to build and manage robust project plans.

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• NEC Contract Administration: Comprehensive instruction in NEC contracts (NEC3/NEC4) delivers an internationally‑recognized professional accreditation. Graduates earn NEC certificates that are highly valued across UK and global markets.

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• APM Best Practices: We instil the Association for Project Management’s (APM) guidelines on scheduling, risk management and controls, ensuring adherence to industry best practice.

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• Advanced Tools & Tech: Where appropriate, trainees gain familiarity with cutting-edge tools (such as AI-driven bid/tender analysis) to boost efficiency. For example, using AI can automate routine scheduling tasks and parse complex contract data much faster – a proven productivity gain (industry reports show users saving hundreds of hours).

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Each trainee completes a structured programme of classroom and on‑the‑job learning, mentoring and assessments. By the end of the course, individuals are job-ready planners who can step into project teams. This high-skill training model ensures quality and credibility of our social initiative – we are training professionals, not just entry-level labourers.

From our pilot projects, we estimate substantial social and commercial returns as the programme scales.

For example:

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• Social Value Per Cohort: Each full training cohort (roughly 60 placements per year) can generate about £1.25M of social value. This value comes from sustained employment (using HACT social value benchmarks), increased productivity, local supplier engagement and the upskilling of participants and their communities.

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• Career Outcomes: By Year 3 we aim to have ~100 trained planners placed in long-term roles, helping Tier 1 projects and supply chains meet skill needs. Trainees gain permanent jobs, improved incomes and professional integration.

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• Return on Investment: Our financial modelling shows that even modest funding can yield orders-of-magnitude returns. For example, analysis indicates ~£19.8M in annual benefits from a £0.35M programme investment. In other words, every £1 spent could potentially return over £50 in value (thousands of percent ROI). In practice we conservatively target a double-digit multiple return (on the order of 14× or more) as we refine the model.

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• Three-Year Scale: With structured growth, we are ambitiously targeting up to £17M of cumulative social value in the first three years. This includes growing to multiple cohorts annually and expanding our training/placement networks. (These are projections based on scaling up the £1.25M‑per‑cohort figure.)
   

These figures are projections/aspirations drawn from our feasibility analysis. They demonstrate that a focussed social training programme can deliver both significant community impact and strong financial leverage. In addition to social metrics, Tier 1 contractors will benefit from having access to rigorously trained NEC-aware planners – helping projects run on time and budgets and reducing delay risk.