Employers
Tell us the roles and skills you cannot fill. We turn that into training and a pipeline of local people ready to work, and prove your social value with evidence, not estimates.
Local skills, local opportunity, across the UK
When a place changes, its people come first.
Billions of pounds of new homes, transport and industry land in communities every year. The work they create rarely reaches the people whose streets are changing. Bridging the Gap closes that distance, one region at a time.
Employer-led. Place-rooted. Built on evidence.
What we do
We turn a skills gap into a local job.
Employers know the roles they cannot fill. Communities have people who would take them with the right route in. Between the two sits a gap nobody owns. We make it somebody's job to close, and keep the evidence that it closed.
Every number is a household. Regional figures are refreshed each quarter from each area's own evidence base.
How it works
One bridge. Three spans.
The same method works in any place. A skills plan is only worth the jobs it reaches, so we connect every step from demand to a real start.
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Listen
Employers in a region name the skills they are short of, in their own words. A live signal of what the local economy actually needs, not a survey that gathers dust.
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Build
Colleges, providers and apprenticeships shape provision around that demand, so a course leads somewhere real and a learner is never trained for a job that was never coming.
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Connect
Local people are matched to the opportunities on their doorstep, with support beside them, and every placement is recorded as audit-grade evidence the plan is working.
Who it's for
Three sides of one local economy.
Training providers
See real, local employer demand before you build a course. Fill cohorts with learners who have a destination, and report outcomes the moment a placement lands.
People
Find the jobs, apprenticeships and training created where you live, matched to you, with people beside you who want you to get the role. Your street. Your skyline. Your job.
Where we work
Region by region.
We start where the evidence and the partners are ready, prove the model, and move to the next place. Oxfordshire is live now.
Live now
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Oxfordshire
Built on the Oxfordshire and Berkshire Local Skills Improvement Plan. Live roles, training and apprenticeships across the six priority sectors.
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Your region next
The model is built to travel. If you are a council, an employer body or a college that wants to close the gap in your area, we want to hear from you.
Bring it to your regionHelp close the gap.
Whether you hire, you train, or you are looking for your next step, the bridge starts here.