What is a GTA?

Group Training Associations offer a very special learning experience which is not available from any other provider: developing and delivering outstanding training for industry by industry.

• Public-Private learning partnerships
• 40 GTAs in key industrial areas
• Employer-subscribed training centres
• 15,000 associated employers
• £90m-£100m combined turnover

For over forty years, GTAs have represented the first truly public-private learning partnerships where employers subscribe to off-the-job training centres in order to provide efficient, expertly delivered skills.

Today, there are over 40 GTAs across the country located in key industrial areas, serving the needs of industry where industry needs them most. Collectively they have a turnover in excess of £90m per year and the resources needed to meet the government's challenges for growth.

Typically, a GTA is a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity whose objects require that surpluses be reinvested. There is usually a group of subscribing member employer companies from which senior executives are drawn to form a GTA board.

The resulting sense of employer 'ownership' is the engine of a vocational training service offered to a far wider range of companies and to the communities in which they sit. They are educational charities in the public realm, to whose activities employers tangibly demonstrate their commitment.