The National Skills Agency has Expertise in Key Consultancy Areas:

In today's fluid training marketplace, organisations require strategic guidance to navigate challenges and seize opportunities. NSA is proud to offer high-level consultancy services across several critical domains, ensuring our clients are well-equipped for sustainable growth and success.

1. Skills Consultancy

We provide expert advice and tailored strategies to enhance workforce skills and performance, assisting organisations in navigating the UK's complex skills landscape.

2. Funding Optimisation

Our team supports employers and training providers in optimising available funding streams, leveraging over 30 years of experience with ESFA, Ofsted, and IfATE.

3. Knowledge Transfer

We offer comprehensive support for acquiring skills and knowledge essential for introducing new products and services, with extensive experience in managing knowledge transfers and supporting startups in scaling operations.

4. Business Development

NSA assists independent training providers and colleges in creating business development options, including total addressable market analysis and competitor profiling.

5. Bid Writing Support

Our consultants excel at winning tenders with the Department for Education, regional devolved authorities, and other funding bodies, providing clients with a competitive edge.

6. Mergers and Acquisitions

We support organisations during the due diligence process of M&A activities, offering extensive experience in assisting SMEs with divestments and acquisitions.

At NSA, we are committed to empowering your business through skills development, recruitment and strategic consultancy. Let's collaborate to unlock your organisation's full potential.

Reach out to spencer@nationalskillsagency.co.uk 020 3953 1984

Mergers & Acquisitions – The NSA Way!

The Apprenticeship and Training marketplace has seen a great deal of activity over the last few years, and we believe this trend of consolidation is set to continue.

Positioned as the leading recruiter across the Apprenticeship and Training marketplace the National Skills Agency has a unique reach into this busy sector. This positioning allows the NSA Consultancy team to gain a unique and early insight to an organisations current and future roadmap, its challenges, and its desires.

This early overview allows the team to open the door and help the directors understand the current acquisition market, the options available and what may be required to help shape and showcase the business in the best possible way.

Let the NSA Consultancy team make the introductions that will allow your business to realise its full potential.

Acquiring:

Growing your business organically is where we all start. This process is often tough, it can be slow and requires a great deal of inward investment in time, energy, resources, and money. It can be done successfully, but what if by acquiring the right business you can:

• Grow your market share overnight
• Gain an infrastructure that supercharges your delivery
• Access to a new team with a range of key specialist skills
• Inherit a raft of new clients that could have taken a lifetime to acquire
• Add instant value to your client proposition
• Increase the value of your business exponentially!

Selling or Raising Capital:

At some point in a business owners’ life there comes a time when selling all or part of the business, or raising capital becomes an attractive option for any number of reasons.

These often include:

• Retirement or ill health
• The need for additional infrastructure
• Investment capital to fund growth
• A chance to share the load and be supported
• A larger footprint opens the door to larger contracts
• They have taken the business as far as they can
• An exit will now support their future plans
• Owners just want to do something different

NSA proposition:

• Managing/brokering introductions whether selling or acquiring
• Advising on seller or acquirer proposition
• Help to manage communications throughout the process
• Advise on company culture and fit
• Use our industry reputation to retain trust between all parties
• Advise on sourcing an experienced leadership team to manage M&A
• Recruit key management to enable a smooth, integration, transition or exit

 Check out the M & A page on our site

To have a confidential discovery call reach out to:

Spencer Mehlman

Managing Director

National Skills Agency

Spencer@nationalskillsagency.co.uk

020 3953 1984 / 07775 805714