The Construction Skills Fund (CSF) provides free training for school leavers, people who are long-term unemployed and career changers who want to join the UK’s construction industry, benefitting both employers and workers by teaching people and helping them gain employment in required and immediately available roles.

Training takes place at our CSF training hubs across England based within construction development sites, so that entrants can become employment and site-ready as quickly as possible.

Which employers use CSF?

CSF serves employers of all sizes, training workers to be site-ready with a range of specifically required skills. Employers that have recruited workers from CSF include:

• Logistics operative
• Gate operative
• Labourer

• Apprentice painter & decorator
• Trainee bricklayer
• Apprentice joiner

• Apprentice quantity surveyor
• Apprentice projects admin officer
• Groundworks

• Apprentice plumber 
• Plumber’s mate
• Trainee housebuilding operative

Impact since 2018 

CSF hubs have continued training during the national lockdowns. Since the start of the fund, hubs have provided onsite experience to over 13,000 participants, including:

• 41% moving from other industries
• 34% BAME 
• 8% female.

Our impact

• Over 13,443 learners have become employment and site ready
• By May 2020, 3,925 learners had been placed into jobs
• 83% of learners were unemployed when they joined the hubs
• Over 6,094 learners are new to construction
• 8,888 learners are from traditionally under-represented groups – including women, disabled people and ethnic minorities.

Find out more about some of the scheme’s most successful projects and some of the workers, trainers and employers who have benefited from this valuable scheme.