Engineering firms in Coventry and Warwickshire are being offered a chance to improve their staff’s skills after a training company based in the city won European funding for the project.

“The Changing Industry” scheme is being run for small and medium-sized companies in the are to help them get to grips with the changing market place.

Any kind of training is on offer from CWT, which is based in St Nicholas Street, Radford.

The project, which is scheduled to last 18 months, has proved a major success within its first month, as firms in the area have rushed to snap up course.

Sales and Marketing Executive Jane Bush said the companies are visited to see what sort of training needs they might need.

They are also given help to get them through the paperwork that is required as part of the European funding.

She said:

“We provide any kind of training. It could computer,-based, for management or vocational, as long as the company is in engineering. Some of the training is linked to NVQs.”