Providing training for employees not only helps them develop their skills and knowledge – it’s also a building block to business success.

SkillsActive works on behalf of the active leisure, learning and well-being sector to develop a framework of qualifications, training and continuous professional that meet employer needs, ensuring the workforce is properly trained and qualified.

Through our National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure, we deliver those qualifications, ensuring the training is quality assured, cost effective and relevant to employers’ needs.

Apprenticeships

• Employers
• Training providers
• Individuals
• Frameworks
• Key facts

CPD

SkillsActive works with training providers to deliver a wide range of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to help people maintain their professional knowledge and skills.

Business Skills

SkillsActive offers a range of resources to help people upskill in areas such as communication, literacy and numeracy, and management.

SkillsActiveCareers

SkillsActiveCareers provides expert advice on the training you need to work in the sport, fitness, playwork, outdoors and caravan industries.

SkillsActive and the National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure are working together as one organisation, but the service we provide to our partners remains the same.

Training providers with existing contacts through the National Skills Academy continue to have opportunities to promote their great quality training through our new and improved website.

If your company has a current contract, you can view your new webpage in our training provider catalogue, offering a new way to showcase the full range of courses that you offer all on one central page. These pages will be further developed over the coming months as we continue to improve the website and the functions it can offer.

This new location for your information makes it a great time to send us an up-to-date list of the training courses that you are currently contracted to offer. Please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  with any updates.

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SkillsActive's new offer

As SkillsActive and the National Skills Academy have become one onganisation, we are also working towards one single offer to training providers. This offer will be rooted in SkillsActive endorsement, which offers training providers the ability to endorse courses as meeting industry standards and offer CPD points for their training.  

Discover more about SkillsActive endorsement

Future opportunities

SkillsActive’s successful bid to establish England’s first ever Group Training Association (GTA) for the sector offers further opportunities for approved providers of the National Skills Academy.

This GTA will bring together more employers looking for quality training for their staff. Providers with a National Skills Academy contract will have priority for any opportunities that arise within their field.

If you have any further questions about your training provider contract, please email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .