As a Cogent member, you will have access to detailed information on skills issues affecting the sector and to a wide range of products and services to help meet your individual company skills needs and, through this, improve your business performance.

You and your employees will be able to access advice and information on a wide range of learning opportunities.

Cogent can also work with you and others within the sector and region by providing a focal point for collective action to develop the competencies required to support your business, aligning your needs to the learning supply chain.

You will have access to your industry team at Cogent for discussions on skills issues relative to you and how your issues relate to others within you industry. This will enable Cogent to formulate collective action plans for your industry.

Your membership will also provide you with a strong voice to government along with assistance to access funding.

By becoming a Cogent member, you are investing in:

• Achieving lasting success for your company and your employees
• Ensuring your business and sector competitiveness through the development of a highly skilled workforce
• Influencing the policies that affect your business and the sector

Membership benefits

Membership to Cogent will not only provide you with a value adding service which will help improve your business performance, and that of the sector, but with your support we can ensure that the training supply chain throughout your industry is maintained at an assured level of quality.

Membership agreements range from 12 to 60 months and there are several payment methods available for you to make your investment. Your Cogent representative will be happy to discuss these with you.

All memberships offer preferential rates against Cogent’s services, which are listed below, ensuring that a value added return on your investment can be made.

Discounted services

• Advice and guidance on identifying the critical risks to your business and how these can be minimised through a system which assures the competence of your workforce
• A health check on the applicability of the standards used by your company and their relevance in the national framework
• Third party quality assurance of your competence system
• Internal training programmes which equip your staff to evaluate and measure the effectiveness of your competence system

Annual membership investments are dictated by the size of your business on a sliding scale based on the number of your employees.To find out about the membership rates, please contact our Warrington office 01925 515200.