Funding For Food And Farming Business Training

£800,000 worth of grants available under the AgriFood Advanced Training Partnership (AATP)

The AATP is able to help fund your employees’ studies if they meet the following eligibility criteria:

  • UK resident
  • employed by a company that has a research and development (R&D) or manufacturing presence in the UK agrifood sector
  • employee must work for more than seven hours per week

Business benefits
Training courses range from one-day workshops to post-graduate diplomas and trainees say they helped them boost sales, develop new products and solve business problems. Training is flexible, includes online modules and can be fitted around the working day.

The AATP programme offers 50 per cent bursaries towards the cost of courses covering areas ranging from plant science and feed nutrition to food manufacturing and business leadership. are currently available for short courses which run in 2015.

Apply for an AATP course.