Overview

The heritage and traditional build upskilling travel support grant supports employers to help those already employed in construction to access in-person specialist training that is not available locally. The pilot is for individuals working for CITB Levy-registered companies, undertaking heritage or traditional building skills courses who must travel a significant distance to undertake the training due to the locations of heritage training centres. The grant is limited to 100 applications and will be available for a period of one year terminating on 30 November 2027.

This grant is split into two elements:

• Accommodation

• Travel.

Who can apply?

You can apply if you’re a CITB Levy-registered employer and up to date with your Levy Returns.

Which courses are covered? 

This grant supports heritage or traditional building skills courses listed below:

How much is available?

• Maximum of £100 in total for accommodation costs

• Maximum of £235 in total for travel costs (at 0.45p per mile for private transport or reimbursement of public transport costs e.g. rail or bus ticket up to a maximum of 520 miles).

How to apply

You must apply for the grant within four weeks of completing the course.

Apply for this grant by completing the application form and submitting this along with receipts and evidence of accommodation/transport to your local Engagement Adviser.

Download and complete the heritage and traditional build upskilling travel support grant application (29KB).

You must provide evidence of accommodation booking and travel costs alongside the application form.

CITB requires a copy of all the relevant evidence of travel, accommodation and attendance covering the period of the application. Such evidence includes, but is not limited to:

• Train tickets

• Screenshots of bookings made via an app

• Booking confirmation emails or documents.

Submission of travel and/or accommodation applications does not guarantee approval, and any rejections will be notified to the employer.

Payments for travel and accommodation shall be paid to the employer’s nominated bank account via Bacs Direct Credit. It is the employer’s responsibility to update CITB of any changes to their bank account details.

How many applications are allowed?

CITB will fund a maximum of 100 heritage and traditional build upskilling travel support grant applications.

There is a cap on how many heritage and traditional build upskilling travel support grant applications can be paid to each employer for the duration of the pilot.

Each employer may submit a maximum of five applications.

This maximum of five payments of up to £335 results in a possible maximum grant of £1,675.

Terms and conditions

CITB reserves the right to exclude any applications for reimbursement of transport and accommodation costs including any costs that CITB considers, at its sole discretion, to be excessive.

• CITB will only reimburse travel costs for standard class travel on public transport

• CITB will reimburse private travel at 45 pence per mile; CITB will not reimburse parking charges

• CITB will only reimburse accommodation and travel costs where specialist training is not available locally and is located more than 100 miles away from the employee’s place of residence

• Any applications for reimbursement of travel/accommodation costs which exceed the maximum of £100 for accommodation and £235 for transport will be capped at £335. Any additional amount will be the employer’s responsibility

• Applications must not be submitted where other external funding is available to support travel and accommodation costs e.g. apprentices. Any application submitted where other external funding is available to support travel and accommodation costs will be rejected by CITB

• The employer accepts full responsibility for their employee and such responsibility includes, but is not limited to, conducting the necessary due diligence to ensure private vehicles for work and training purposes have in place valid insurance and MOT certification. For the avoidance of doubt, CITB shall bear no cost in respect of these responsibilities

• The employer must bear the full cost associated with any cancellations/no-shows at accommodation or any costs arising from additional charges made by the accommodation provider (e.g. room service, breakages etc.)

• The application for the employee’s reimbursement of accommodation and travel costs must be submitted by the employer

• Time for payment is not of the essence

• CITB requires a copy of all the relevant evidence of travel, accommodation and attendance covering the period of the application. Such evidence includes, but is not limited to, train tickets, screenshots of bookings made via an app, and booking confirmation emails or documents

• Submission of travel and/or accommodation applications does not guarantee approval, and any rejections will be notified to the employer

• Payments for travel and accommodation shall be paid to the employer’s nominated bank account via Bacs Direct Credit. It is the employer’s responsibility to update CITB of any changes to their bank account details.

Data sharing

Personal data of employees who attend or achieve courses is collected as part of grant applications to enable the grants to be processed.

The information provided to CITB (“the Information”) will be collected and processed for the purpose of administering the grants which also enables CITB to fulfil its statutory functions (and purposes incidental to those functions) as set out in the Industrial Training Act 1982.

The Information will be held securely and will not be disclosed to third parties other than as described above and in accordance with the CITB Privacy Notice.

For further information explaining the data subject’s rights and how the Information may be used by CITB, please refer to the CITB Privacy Notice.

Other grants

Please check with your local Engagement Adviser to see if you are eligible for any other CITB grants.

Have you sent us your bank details?

Bursaries are paid by bank transfer. If we do not hold your current bank details, please complete and submit the secure online Bacs Direct Credit Authorisation Form to receive payments.