Who can join

Joining criteria
To qualify for membership you must first meet the requirements of a GTA, set out in the ALP publication 'Investigating the Group Training Association (GTA) model and the potential to develop and expand'.

These include:

• A training organisation whose governance is conducted by representatives of (usually member) employers
• A company limited by guarantee and registered charity reinvesting all surpluses
• A training provider whose curriculum is likely to be centred on apprenticeships

In addition you are likely to:

• have a professional business approach to management
• be located in an industrial environment
• possess substantial up-to-date technical equipment and facilities
• provide a training service to employers, beyond the membership group
• offer a curriculum which, however specialist, is diversified in terms of the learner constituencies to whom it is made available, (to include GCSEs, diplomas and provision for excluded school pupils, TTG, NVQs and full-cost specialist technical short courses for employers
• have high quality standards, accredited by Ofsted, ISO 9000, Matrix, COVE/TQS etc
• have a lack of indebtedness and reluctance to acquire debt