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Attracting new business • In partnership with the Athena consortium we have accessed funding from the European Social Fund and Big Lottery Fund’s Building Better Opportunities programme. The Motiv8 programme provides outreach support to help people furthest away from the labour market into work. Motiv8 has enabled 14 people to get on the path to employment and has since been expanded to include business start up advice and construction training.

• In March 2018 a national training and apprenticeships centre for gas engineers launched in Salford. The Liberate Academy has an Accredited Certification Scheme testing centre providing training to hundreds of gas engineers across the country.

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