What we do
CMN Training and Skills offers a wide range high quality training and skills programmes to all business sectors and geographies.
CMN Training and Skills is part of the Cornwall Marine Network Group of companies and as a not-for profit organisation, CMN Training and Skills was established to support businesses to grow, by developing its workforce and in-house knowledge and skills.
The services we provide include support to help you achieve new skills and training for you and your staff, digital marketing advice and help to improve productivity within your business. We also nurture meaningful connections between the businesses we support.
CMN Training and Skills offers a unique model of workforce development, we talk to you to understand the barriers you face in growing your business and tailor packages of support to meet your needs. The support offered can be delivered remotely; face to face (in house at CMN) through self-paced blended learning or where possible, within the business’s own workplace.
We also work with business to find solutions to specific problems they are facing, bidding for project funds where available to support staffing and training costs, as well as required resources.
As an Independent Training Provider and a Registered Apprenticeship Training Provider, CMN delivers more than 150 different training packages that includes a suite of non-accredited business and IT skills courses; a plethora of high quality accredited courses (largely between levels 1-3) and the team supports more than 120 apprentices on standards that range from cross-sector roles such as Business Administrator and Team Leader through to specialist sector functions such as Marine Engineering, Warehousing, Metal Fabricator and Early Years. CMN is also the only accredited centre for Business Computer Science (BCS) qualifications in Cornwall.
Since the CMN team was first established in 2005, we have supported businesses to create over 4,850 new jobs and apprenticeship, having won and delivered more than £42 Million of project funds, all of which have added around £660 Million of value to Cornwall’s economy.
CMN has been graded as “good” by Ofsted, has Matrix Accreditation for its Information, Advice and Guidance and is a disability Confident employer.
How CMN started
CMN was formed by a group of Cornwall marine business leaders in 2002. CMN was established as a not-for-profit private company, limited by guarantee and so it is owned by our 300+ member businesses. This structure provides the ethos and integrity of the CMN model, we exist to help our members make more money, rather than make money from our members. Any trading surpluses are reinvested back into benefits for our members. The more members we have, the stronger the evidence of demand to influence our bids for project funds, meaning the more money we can win to provide services and support to you. Working together, the CMN model works and keeps growing.
CMN’s first success at winning project funds was in 2002, when an Objective One bid for more than £1 million allowed us to employ staff members and deliver marketing grants and skills improvements to members, directly creating 214 new jobs as a result and creating 1,550 new apprenticeships.
With the continued support of members, CMN has repeated this model of using evidence of the priority needs of the sector to bid for and win more than 100 projects, bringing more than £40 million to spend on members.
The Cornwall Marine Academy (CMA) was created in 2008 to raise awareness of the wide range of career opportunities in the marine sector, deliver vocational training and work experience to young people aged 10 to 24 and support their employability and progression into Apprenticeships or jobs. The Academy has supported more than 35,000 young people aged 10 – 25 with careers advice, taster sessions, vocational training and pre-Apprenticeship training, supported by an army of 110 volunteer Marine Ambassadors from our members who share meaningful hands-on experience of their own career progression and the job opportunities in the local sector. This has resulted in improvements to the supply of employable young people into the sector.
Cornwall remains home to some of the world’s most innovative, cutting edge and forward thinking marine businesses and we listen and respond to your needs to create benefits, provide sector representation and maintain this momentum of growth to benefit the local marine sector and the wider Cornish economy.
Since the CMN team was first established in 2005, we have supported you to create over 3,650 new jobs, having won and delivered more than £40 Million of project funds, all of which have added around £600 Million of value to Cornwall’s economy.
Our Value Proposition
Cornwall Marine Network exists to help Cornish marine businesses grow.
Our expert team know the sector and the challenges; they’ve been doing it for almost 20 years. We will support you and your business to achieve six core pillars – from identifying areas of your business that can improve, through to helping you achieve those gains, our team are in a position to make tangible gain and change.
