About SS&L

We help people make positive changes to their lives, through learning

We work across Somerset, providing adult education, apprenticeships and traineeships. As well as offering skills and qualifications, we also invest heavily in community projects to help disadvantaged groups to improve their lives through learning.

We understand learning and development, and we share this understanding with our learners, partners and the employers that we work with. Somerset Skills & Learning was graded ‘Good’ by OFSTED at our last inspection.

What we do

• Annually, we provide learning opportunities to over 6,000 learners across Somerset and beyond.
• We lead the Community Learning Partnership for Somerset, providing grants to enable learning in the community for over 40 different community groups each year deliver over 70 projects.
• We work with over 250 employers to support the skills and economic needs of Somerset.
• We provide back to work and employability training for young people and adults.
• We work with schools and family centres to deliver a range of family learning opportunities.
• We offer a range of short courses and workshops for wellbeing and enjoyment

Where are we?

We have centres in Bridgwater, Frome, Taunton, Shepton Mallet and Yeovil. We also deliver training in a range of other partner locations across Somerset and offer many courses as distance learning.