The Mayor's Skills Academies programme

The Mayor’s Skills Academies Programme supports Londoners into good work in sectors that are key to London’s recovery and long-term economic growth, as part of the London Recovery Programme.

The total investment of the programme is £44m. It's funded by the Mayor of London (£23m), the London Economic Action Partnership (LEAP, £20.6m), the NHS (0.25M), and the Health Education England (£0.25m). LEAP brings together entrepreneurs, businesses, London Councils and the Mayor to support economic growth and job creation in the capital.

The programme will do this by coordinating and quality marking training in London (including adult education) and providing bespoke support to help newly skilled people into work in our priority sectors. It also builds on the work of the Mayor’s Workforce Integration Network (WIN), which was established to address the structural barriers that prevent underrepresented groups from accessing high-quality work opportunities across the different sectors in London.

The objectives of the Mayoral Skills Academies programme are to:

help fill vacancies in priority sectors with skilled people
raise the profile of these sectors for potential applicants
get Londoners into good work (direct employment, apprenticeships, traineeships or self-employment/freelance work) in the sectors identified 
support the further education (FE) sector to deliver industry relevant provision
gain insights into the priority sectors and to support specific groups of Londoners, including young black men, to overcome barriers to entry into the sectors identified
support employers and FE colleges to address structural barriers to engagement, recruitment, retention and progression for under-represented groups in their industry/workforce, as outlined in the Workforce Integration Network (WIN) toolkit.

Find a Skills Academies Hub

As part of the Mayor's Skills Academies programme, the Mayor has awarded funding to organisations to lead the delivery and establishment of skills hubs. These hubs are intended to support Londoners into good work in the green economy, creative industries, digital, health and social care, and hospitality sectors.

Contact a hub to find out more, sign up to opportunities and get the support you need to move towards your dream job.

If you're an employer, contact a hub to access support and tools to help you address workforce diversity.

Hub lead – JGA Creative

This West London hub focuses on supporting Londoners into roles in Film and TV.

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Hub lead – Capital City College Group

This pan-London hub focuses on supporting Londoners into roles in the screen industries including Film/TV, Animation, Visual Effects and Games.

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Hub lead – London Borough of Waltham Forest

Focusing primarily on the creative sector, this hub supports Londoners into roles involving theatre, film and TV, craft skills and animation. The hub covers the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Enfield, Hackney, Haringey, Havering, Redbridge and Tower Hamlets.

Find out more about London Borough of Waltham Forest hub

Hub lead – Capital City College Group

This hub focuses on supporting residents in 12 London boroughs and the City of London into a range of Digital roles which are facing skills shortages, including software development, programming, web development, cyber security and data analysis.

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Hub Lead – Generation

The London Digital Jobs and Skills Hub is on a mission to get unemployed and underemployed Londoners from all London boroughs into life-changing and well-paying tech and digital careers via free training bootcamps and apprenticeships provided by the Hub partners. No university degree or previous experience is required! Available roles include digital marketing, cloud computing, IT support, Software Engineering and Data Analytics, and more.

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Hub lead – Westminster Adult Education Services

This digital hub encompasses the City of Westminster, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Wandsworth and Camden. The hub focuses on a wide range of digital occupations including web design and development, UX (user experience) design, digital project management and Software development.

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Hub lead – London South Bank University

This hub covers Lewisham, Lambeth and Southwark and focuses on roles in green construction and retrofit, green transport, energy waste/recycling, infrastructure and transport.

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Hub lead – Capital City College Group

Covering 12 London boroughs and the City of London, this hub focuses on green occupations in the construction sector including roles in waste and recycling management, off-site manufacturing and pre-fabrication, gas engineers and heating/plumbing technicians and electric vehicle charging point installation.

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Hub Lead – West London College

This West London hub focuses on roles in energy efficiency (retrofit, insulation, renewables), circular economy (waste and recycling), low carbon transport (electrical vehicles, charging stations) and green spaces.

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Hub Lead – Ground Work London

This pan-London hub focuses on supporting BAME Londoners, women and young people into roles in green space and resilience. The hub targets roles related to modern methods of horticulture that have been devised to mitigate the impacts of climate change by natural means such as green roofing and increasing biodiversity.

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Hub Lead – South London Partnership

This hub covers the South London boroughs of Richmond upon Thames, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Sutton, Croydon and Wandsworth. The hub focuses on promoting roles in Green Construction such as sustainability operatives, recycling and waste operatives, gas engineers, energy and resource advisers and electrical installers (including electric vehicles).

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Hub lead – Capital City College Group

This hub covers 12 London boroughs and the City of London. The hub target all key sub-sectors of the hospitality industry including roles in housekeeping, security and door staff, kitchen teams and front of house staff. The hub also have a primary focus on addressing the sector’s demand for chefs.

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Hub lead – Lewisham College

This hub cover the boroughs of Lewisham, Westminster, Newham, Greenwich, Southwark and Tower Hamlets. The hub address a range of Hospitality occupations, focusing on local shortages in kitchen and catering assistants, waiting staff, chefs, bar staffs and managerial staff.

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Hub lead – North East London ICB

This hub will cover Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Redbridge, Waltham Forest and Havering. The hub will engage, prepare and support people from North East London to secure good work in the health sector, with a focus on current skills and occupation shortages such as Nursing, Podiatry, Administration staff and Allied Health Professionals (AHP).

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Hub lead – NHS South West London ICB

This hub will cover the London boroughs of Croydon, Kingston, Merton, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth. The hub will have a focus on nursing and midwifery, allied health professionals (AHP) and social care workers.

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Hub Lead – North West London Health Care Partnership

This hub will cover the London boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Brent, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Ealing and Hammersmith and Fulham. The hub plans to focus on a range of shortage occupations including midwives, allied health professionals, health care support workers, nurses (including mental health nurses), data analysts and finance staff.

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Hub Lead – South East London

The SEL integrated Health and Care Hub will cover the London boroughs of Southwark, Lambeth, Lewisham, Greenwich, Bexley and Bromley. The hub will engage, prepare and support local people to secure good jobs in the Health and Care Sectors. Candidates will be supported by a small team and a digital platform, where they will be exposed to a variety of different job opportunities with access to training and advice built around their individual situations, skills and experience.

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Hub Lead – North East London

North East London region is made up of seven boroughs including City & Hackney, Waltham Forest, Newham, Barking, Havering and Redbridge.

The North East London hub will create rewarding and meaningful work and training opportunities for all residents The hub will work with partners and residents through a three phased approach:

Inspire – Engage local communities to inform them about the breadth of career options available to them in the social care sector and the rewarding careers that can be developed.
Prepare – Provide excellent education and training to residents allowing them to develop the key skills to succeed in social care.
Support – Connect job ready candidates with social care employers and support them through the application process with a range of job readiness training.

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Hub Lead – South West London Partnership

The South West London Social Care Academy Hub is part of the Greater London Authority’s Mayor’s Skills Academies covering the six London Boroughs of Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Sutton and Wandsworth.

  The SWL Social Care Academy Hub aims to support the social care sector by improving workforce recruitment and retention for local Londoners, especially those from underrepresented groups into training and good jobs in the social care sector. This hub will work with social care employers, training providers and job brokerage specialists to help find new jobs, apprenticeships and work experience opportunities for local Londoners.

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Hub Lead – North West London Health Care Partnership

This hub will cover the London boroughs of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster, Brent, Harrow, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Ealing and Hammersmith and Fulham. The hub plans to focus on a range of shortage occupations including midwives, nurses and allied health professionals such as occupational therapists, as well as health and social care support workers. North West London will also be focussing on apprenticeships and shortage occupations such as administrative roles, data analysts and finance staff.

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Hub Lead – South East London

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Hub Lead – North Central London

This Hub will include the London Boroughs of Camden, Enfield, Islington, Haringey and Barnet. The Hub will engage, prepare, and support local people to achieve good work in the Health and Social Care sector across North Central London. There will be a focus on entry-level roles including clinical and non-clinical roles, with further resources to promote the breadth of career progression opportunities within the sector and how to access these.

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Hub lead – London South East Colleges (LSEC)

Focusing on the green and digital sectors, this hub covers the London Boroughs of Newham, Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, Waltham Forest, Enfield, Bromley, Bexley, Greenwich, Hackney and Tower Hamlets. The hub will prioritise a range of green and digital sub-sectors that are facing skill shortages including internal/external insulation technologies, ground source heat pumps, electric vehicle charging installation, computer aided design and building information modelling.

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