New facility set to train thousands of young people in South Yorkshire

The Northern 4Life Academy is to open its doors this month and will train more than 2,500 individuals each year, including more than 300 members of local communities in Rotherham and across the north of England.

Fortem have delivered repairs, maintenance and voids services to Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council’s housing tenants for almost a decade, and the opening of The Northern 4Life Academy demonstrates their on-going commitment to investing in the town and its communities.

The training centre will feature professional repairs and maintenance training bays including electrical, roofing, plumbing and fire prevention, as well as classrooms with industry leading technology.

Ann-Marie Steele, head of academies & learning at Fortem, said: “Our 4life Academies offer industry-leading training and play a key role in enabling Fortem, our clients and our supply chain to meet future service needs and continued growth.

“By thinking differently and challenging the way we deliver training and learning, we want to inspire people to achieve their full potential.”

“A second Academy running alongside our existing one will enable us to deliver more training, to more people, reaching and leaving a legacy in even more of the communities we work in.”

Andrew Exley, Managing Director of Scarbrook Plumbing and Heating Ltd and Scarbook Electrical Ltd, based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, said: “Fortem’s partnership approach can be best demonstrated by the support we received from the team at the organisation’s Midlands 4Life Academy. It has not only delivered training courses to improve our staff, but also helped us find quality candidates for apprenticeships.”

Fortem’s Northern Academy will be operational from September 2019, with an official launch on 3rd October.