Including advanced equipment alongside a dynamic team of trainers recruited directly from industry, the AMAC is a unique facility which enhances the skills of engineers and manufacturers through powerful, bespoke training.
Over its first two years of operation, the training centre will enable more than 250 local people to study for Higher Engineering Apprenticeships and take part in upskilling programmes. Successful apprentices will have the opportunity to continue their studies up to degree level.
The project has been helped thanks to £800,000 received from the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) towards the cost of the facility, as part of its £30m Growth Deal Skills Capital Programme to improve the skills of thousands of people in a number of key areas of Lancashire’s economy.
“The LEP is funding a network of new, modern training facilities all across Lancashire which will improve the employability of thousands of local people over the coming years,” said Graham Cowley, chair of the LEP’s Growth Deal Management Board: “We have committed to supporting 15 new training facilities via Growth Deal Skills Capital funding, of which the AMAC in Blackburn is the second to be completed.
“Along with other training centres we are funding, this new facility will help provide the skilled workforce that Lancashire needs to maintain its position as the UK’s leading region for aerospace and advanced manufacturing for years to come,” Cowley concluded.
