Your organisation may wish to apply for training for a number of staff. You can apply for funding for up to 100% of the cost of training, provided it does not exceed the caps detailed below for internal and external training, and you can confirm this would not increase the total amount of any grants you have received above the de-minimis state aid received limit of €200,000 threshold in any three years. De-minimis aid is defined in the EU Commission’s Regulation No 1407/2013.

Externally delivered training

The cap per trainee per training course is £1,500. Should eligible training costs exceed that amount, grant support will be limited to £1,500 per trainee per training course. An individual trainee can attend multiple courses.

Internally delivered training

The cap per trainee per training course is £250. Should eligible training costs exceed that amount, grant support will be limited to £250 per trainee per training course.

Please note there can be no application made for trainee salaries in either the internally or externally delivered scenario. (Salary support is provided under the Recruitment grant).

Externally delivered training

If an applicant wishes to use an external training provider, the following costs can be applied for:

• The cost of the training provision as charged to them by the external training provider (without itemising trainer’s personnel costs or the trainer’s materials and supplies).
• Trainee’s materials and supplies directly related to the project, to the extent that they are used exclusively for the training project, and not supplied by the trainer.
• Trainer’s and trainee’s travel and subsistence costs, to the extent that they are incurred/required exclusively to deliver training events.

Internally delivered training

If the applicant wishes the training to be delivered internally within their organisation, “trainers” are defined as individuals under the employment of the applicant. The following costs can be applied for:

• Trainer’s personnel costs, for the hours during which the trainers participate in preparing and delivering the training;
• Trainer’s and trainee’s materials and supplies directly related to the project, to the extent that they are used exclusively for the training project;
• Trainer’s and trainee’s travel and subsistence costs, to the extent that they are incurred/required exclusively to deliver training events.

All expenditure must be reasonable, appropriate and at normal commercial rates.

VAT registered organisations will be paid the net value of their expenditure and non-VAT registered organisations will be paid the gross value.

• Training which organisations carry out to comply with national mandatory standards on other training; for example, training to meet health and safety requirements;

Training related to other HM Government statutory requirements that are not directly related to exports, e.g. VAT; and

Ad hoc or informal ‘on the job’ training is not covered by the scheme.

Please note, qualifying expenditure must have been made on or after the announcement of the additional £50m funding on 12 June 2020 and must be evidenced, in full, on submission of your claim for payment. The claim for payment including acceptable evidence of expenditure must be submitted within two calendar months of the grant offer being issued, and by 31 August 2021 at the latest.