Multiply: adult maths and numeracy skills boost for Dorset

Talk Think Do secures place on G-Cloud framework

Adults across Dorset looking to improve maths skills can enrol for free courses and activities thanks to a £3.3 million investment, focusing on increasing progression opportunities and securing well-paid jobs.

The free courses and events include numeracy, money management skills and upskilling for jobs and careers. Also available are intensive short courses and longer, more flexible qualification courses. There will be opportunities for all levels of maths, from entry level up to level 2, such as GCSE or Functional Skills equivalent.

Businesses that develop their employees’ numeracy skills can also boost productivity, increase profits and improve employee retention. Dorset based employers will also benefit from the scheme, with courses and activities tailored to a particular area or jobs at no cost to them offered to their employees to help boost their numeracy skills.

Skills & Learning Adult Community Education has been awarded the funds from the government’s £2.6 billion UK Shared Prosperity Fund, which will be used to offer tailored courses to meet the needs of the Dorset community as part of the government’s Multiply programme.

Multiply will offer adults living in the UK, aged 19+, who do not already have a GCSE grade C/4 or higher in Maths or equivalent, free flexible courses that fit around their lives and help them reach their goals. www.skillsandlearningace.com

Wimborne-based Talk Think Do, has secured its place on the UK government’s G-Cloud 13 framework.

The leading Dorset tech firm specialises in creating bespoke, mission-critical cloudnative systems and has previously partnered with several public sector organisations including Transport for London and the Department for Education, as well as brands such as Explore Learning, Avios and Third Space Gyms.

Talk Think Do will be listed as a recommended supplier on the government’s latest digital marketplace, G-Cloud 13, launching 9 November.

Louise Clayton, managing director at Talk Think Do, said: “Our inclusion on the latest G-Cloud framework strengthens our position in the public sector market and increases the opportunity to deploy our specialist services with a variety of public sector organisations.

“We are proud to be delivering such influential and impactful software to a broad range of national organisations from our offices in Wimborne. Acceptance onto the new framework is testament to our team’s expertise, experience and academic approach. We take pride in helping our clients overcome their greatest challenges and discover their broadest opportunities and the prospect of delivering this success for more public sector organisations is incredibly exciting for us as a team.”

Talk Think Do has been awarded Lot 3 for Modernisation and Lot 3 for Cloud Support on the G-Cloud framework. Its acceptance onto the scheme is supported by five years’ experience holding a Digital and Outcomes Specialist (DOS) agreement with the Crown Commercial Service.

The G-Cloud framework was first launched in 2012 and is designed to support public sector organisations in spending with cloudbased service SMEs in the UK.

Talk Think Do innovates, modifies and maintains advanced cloud-native applications that enable businesses to achieve businesscritical goals and growth objectives. The business, which is approaching its eighth anniversary, is currently recruiting for a range of software engineer and architect skills. www.talkthinkdo.com