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The Retail SkillShop Dorset

The Retail Skill Shop

What is the Retail Skill Shop?

The Skillshop provides a service to the retail industry helping to raise its profile, attract passionate new staff and develop first class skills for today's fast moving retail environment.

Through a one-stop-virtual-shop it brings together many of the elements needed for a successful retail sector - employers, potential employees, education, training providers and business support partners throughout Dorset.

What we do

The Retail Skillshop Dorset provides a free support service to retailers across Dorset and is a one stop shop where you can access a variety of high quality training programmes to support your business and to develop you and your team.


The Retail Skillshop Dorset is managed by The Bournemouth and Poole College and works in partnership with organisations such as Chambers of Commerce, Business Link, Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), Job Centre Plus, Town Centre Managers and Economic Development teams across Dorset.


For more information please call:

Retail Skillshop Dorset
T: 01202 205957
E: retailskillshop@bpc.ac.uk

What we offer

The Retail Skillshop in association with The Bournemouth and Poole College offer a number of training courses to develop the skills of the retail sector. For more information please use the course search facility at http://courses.thecollege.co.uk/

Download PDF - Guide to Training


Bournemouth Business Bonanza
The Retail Skillshop Dorset, in conjunction with Bournemouth Chamber of Trade & Commerce, are pleased to offer a £100 voucher to all Bournemouth based businesses with less than 10 full time equivalent employees to use towards any relevant training or business support. The subsidy can be used towards part or the whole of the course fee.

To find out how you could benefit from this fantastic offer please call or email the Retail Skillshop Dorset. Limited availability so call now on 01202 205957!

Retail Guru Comes to Dorset

Retail guru Mary Portas, best known for her BBC2 show ‘Mary Queen of Shops’ has put her name to a new range of masterclasses coming soon to The Bournemouth and Poole College. Read the news story here or click on the icon below for more information about the programme. To book your place visit www.nsaforretail.com/NSAR/Retailers/MaryPortasMasterclasses/default.aspx

New dates added:

Finance and Business Planning - 25th January 2011
Being clear about your business vision is an essential first step, but turning it into a working model requires a thorough grasp of retail finance and business planning. This interactive step-by-step guide gives you the knowledge to construct a robust financial model using effective tools that can help you keep an a eye on the numbers and plan for what to do if things go off track. In easy to understand language and using interactive examples, this master class takes a comprehensive approach to building a really effective budget, sales plan and cash-flow forecast.

 

The Retailskillshop Dorset is a member of  The National Skills Academy for Retail, to find out more visit www.nsaforretail.com/NSAR/default.aspx

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