Funded Programmes

***NEW FULLY FUNDING SUPPORT AVAILABLE***

Employer Support Programme for businesses in York and North Yorkshire

THRIVING WORKPLACES AND PEOPLE

Create and sustain inclusive, supportive and healthy workplace environments

 This project is supported by York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority, using funding from the Department for Work and Pensions’ Get Britain Working Economic Inactivity Trailblazer

How can this benefit your business 👇

• Access fully funded support that will make a significant impact on your business
• Develop more engaged and motivated teams
• Build confident, inclusive leaders
• Support employees’ wellbeing and physical health
• Support neurodivergent employees in the workplace
• Strengthen your people management and HR processes

WHAT IS ON OFFER / BOOK YOUR PLACE HERE

Developing Thriving Leaders and Managers:

• Compassionate Leaders Masterclass – 25^th June, 14^th July, 5^th August, 2^nd September
• How to Have Difficult Conversations in the Workplace – 8^th July
• Communicating with Impact – 22^nd July
• Coaching and Mentoring – 12^th August
• Essentials of Management, two-day workshop – 20-21st October
• Thriving workplace leadership coaching – find out more here
• Developing thriving teams (1 day) – find out more here
• Consultancy to implement inclusive frameworks– find out more here
• Support with culture, performance, talent and succession planning– find out more here
• Employee engagement surveys (3-month project) identifying key challenges impacting retention and engagement and developing a clear action planning and signposting to wider support– find out more here

Supporting Wellbeing at Work Online Toolbox Talks:

• Toolbox Talk Start the day right with breakfast – 10:30-11:30am 26^th June

• Toolbox Talk Sleep – 11:30-12:30pm 30^th June

• Toolbox Talk Healthy Gut Healthy You – 11-12pm 13^th July

• Toolbox Talk Managing Fatigue at Work – 10:30-11:30am 23^rd July

• Toolbox Talk Back Pain Awareness – 11-12pm 22^nd September

• Toolbox Talk From Stressed to Supported – 11-12pm 30^th September

• Toolbox Talk Drink Aware – 11-12pm 14^th October

• Toolbox Talk Winter Wellness Aware – 11-12pm 20^th October

• Toolbox Talk Maximising your Immune System – 11-12pm 10^th November

• Toolbox Talk Postural Awareness – 11-12pm 25^th November

Supporting Wellbeing at Work Masterclasses, 1-5pm:

• A Manager’s Guide: Musculoskeletal Health in the Workplace – 24^th June

• A Manager’s Guide: Managing Fatigue in the Workplace – 9^th July

• A Manager’s Guide: How to look after the Wellbeing of your Staff – 30^th July

• A Manager’s Guide: Menopause awareness at work – 13^th August

• A Manager’s Guide: Managing Mental Health: Stress Risk Assessments – 24^th September

• A Manager’s Guide: Facilitating safe conversations in the workplace – 22^nd October

• A Manager’s Guide: Musculoskeletal Health in the Workplace – 19^th November

More Wellbeing Support:

• Health Testing Package – find out more here

• Organisational Coaching Session – find out more here

Neurodiversity One-Hour Online Toolbox Talks, 9:30-10:30am:

• Toolbox Talks : Understanding Sensory Differences – 23^rd July

• Toolbox Talks : Understanding Alexithymia – 10^th September

• Toolbox Talks : Understanding Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria – 15^th October

• Toolbox Talks : Understanding Masking – 12^th November

• Toolbox Talks : Understanding Anxiety – 26^th November

Practical HR Support:

• Toolbox Talks: HR best practice and legalities on recruitment, onboarding, retaining and inclusively, 9-10am- 29th June, 30th June, 15th July, 21st July, 4th August, 13th August, 2nd September, 17th September, 6th October, 14th October, 20th October, 4th November, 10th November, 24th November
• Masterclasses: Top tips on hiring inclusively and on the right side of employment law, 9:30-11:30am – 22^nd July, 9^th September, 27^th October
• 2 days HR consultancy to implement strategies/policies to be employer of choice – find out more

Why Act Now?

This funding opportunity is only available until March 2026 and once the funds are used up, they’re gone!

Delivered through a partnership of trusted experts

Pro-Development, Halsa Wellbeing, Spectrum First and McMillan and Associates HR

***PLEASE BE QUICK AS PLACES ARE LIMITED***

If you are interested in accessing the funding, just get in touch and we will check your eligibility and help you understand what solutions will best fit your needs.  Click the link for the date you would like to attend or call us on 01904 62883 or email info@pro-development.co.uk.

Funding for South Yorkshire

Businesses in South Yorkshire can access support from the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority.

Funding is available to support training and development that directly contributes to business growth, improved productivity and stronger organisational performance.

We work with businesses to design development programmes that align both with their strategic objectives and the funding criteria.

Is your business eligible?

Funding is available to businesses that are based and operating in South Yorkshire and can demonstrate how their proposed training will:

• Support business growth and development
• Improve productivity or performance
• Deliver clear, measurable outcomes
• Provide tangible benefits for both the organisation and individual employees

Funding levels are linked to organisation size:

• Micro businesses (0–9 employees): up to 60%
• Small businesses (10–49 employees): up to 50%
• Medium businesses (50–249 employees): up to 40%
• Large businesses (250+ employees): up to 30%

The level of funding awarded will depend on the strength of the application and the evidence provided.

What’s involved?

The application process requires a clear and well-evidenced business case. Employers will need to:

• Work with a Skills Advisor before applying
• Define the group of learners who will take part
• Set out clear learning outcomes for each individual
• Demonstrate how the training links to business objectives and growth
• Show how improvements in performance or productivity will be measured
• Evidence value for money and expected return on investment

Funding is claimed once training has been completed and evidenced, with a small proportion released following a three-month impact review.

What can we offer with the funding

Most of our programmes and courses are eligible for funding:-

Coaching

For you and your employees to build the skills you need to cope with the volatile and complex challenges you currently face. We will coach both business and personal performance including areas such as dealing with change, communication, problem solving, managing time, improving leadership, staff motivation, teamwork and much more.

Leadership & Management Development

• Our 7-month Experiential Leadership Programme which utilises learning activities using the outdoors and one to one coaching sessions
• Our 6-month classroom based Future Leaders Programme which is supported with action learning groups
• Our 1-day People Fundamentals programme for new or emerging managers
• Our online programme which consists of between 6 to 12 x 2 hour sessions every 3/4 weeks for a team of managers or leaders in your business to take a bite-sized look at various aspects of leadership and management

Employee Engagement

Bespoke Employee Engagement programme and consultancy.  This 6 – 12 month programme provides expert consultancy and assessment to increase employee engagement and support business resilience, growth and high performing workplaces.  Using an employee survey tool, attendees will work through a process of assessing engagement, analysing and reviewing results and building a 12 month action plan to support increased engagement.

Training

A whole range of training courses from one day workshops to half day sessions both face to face and online.  Have a look at our training people page for an idea of the types of training we can offer.

Team Building

We have a range of Team Building events we can deliver online or face to face both indoors and outdoors.  If you think your team would benefit from some focussed support to help develop them into a high performing team, we can offer a range of sessions from 2 hour online modules to half day and one day team events.  You let us know what you want to achieve and we will design an event just for you:

• Building High Performing Teams – a half or one day event to rebuild connection, trust and address potential conflict across teams. Supporting understanding of each other, raising awareness of productive and destructive tendencies in conflict, exploring high performing teamwork and identifying actionable ideas to embed high performance across the team.
• Our online programme which consists of between 6 to 12 x 2 hour sessions every 3/4 weeks for a team in your business to take a bite-sized look at various aspects team working.
• Interactive and impactful Training Workshops to support teams.
• Experiential Management Team Development events – indoor or outdoor with a focus on recognising and celebrating difference, this workshop encourages self reflection, disclosure and feedback to enable the team to operate from a position of trust and understanding, identifying and defining core values and agreed ways of working.

People Strategy

• Consultancy and coaching support with a qualified coach working with senior leaders in your business to identify opportunities to create a high performing workplace. Includes areas such as working on vision and values, business growth and Organisational Development (OD) strategy, talent and succession planning.
• Bespoke Performance Management, Talent and Succession Management programme and consultancy – consultancy, support and tools to design, develop and embed performance management, talent management and succession planning to support business growth including training for managers on the process.
• Assessment, feedback and profiling tools with coaching – undertake an assessment or get 360 feedback using a selection of profiling tools (eg DISC, HPTI, TEIQ, TMSDI, Strengths Profiling) followed by a coaching session with a qualified coach to develop an action plan for personal growth.
• Supporting your future talent – A programme of support working with future talent in your business including a development centre and assessment tools and related 1:1 support to help embed succession planning and individual growth of talent.

We have recently been made aware of a grant available to SMEs in the East Riding of Yorkshire region.

This could be used for business support from Pro-Development if you are looking to undertake an employee engagement survey or some coaching or consultancy work with the senior leaders to support business growth or improved productivity.  Some top level information is below.

If you are interested in discussing this or are thinking of a project in the coming months or year, then let us know and we can help.

Grants will be available for application at 50% of eligible identified expenditure from £1000 – £5000 to support in the development of our communities, local businesses and personal skills, training, and professional development.   So if someone was looking to do an employee engagement survey or some consultancy of between £5-10k, you would be able to access a grant of 50% of that.

Priority aims are:

to create jobs and boost community cohesion by supporting local businesses

promote networking and collaboration

stimulate innovation and growth

help and support businesses to grow.

Grants are available to support business growth and, as such, need to be aligned with business objectives as identified with an East Riding of Yorkshire Council Business Adviser. Grant projects are expected to add value to the business in terms of enabling growth, identifying efficiency and wider economic benefits. Grants will only be awarded where the awarding of the grant achieves one of the following:

An increase in the scale of the project

An increase in the quality of the project

Bringing forward the timing of the project

All grant applications will be considered against the potential for growth within the business and the wider economic benefit. These will be measured by the applicant’s ability to identify and provide evidence of expected outcomes from the project being delivered.  For the work we undertake in our region, these could include:

New jobs being created

Existing jobs being safeguarded

Improved productivity