Employers
Tell us the roles and skills you cannot fill. We turn that into training and a pipeline of local people ready to work, and prove your social value with evidence, not estimates.
Name your skills gap →Oxfordshire's Local Skills Improvement Plan, made real
Local skills should mean local opportunity.
When the work changes in a place, the people who live there should be first in line for it, not last. Bridging the Gap is how Oxfordshire connects its people to the jobs, training and apprenticeships being created on their doorstep.
Employer-led. Place-rooted. Built on evidence.
The gap
Cranes go up. The work rarely reaches the people whose streets are changing.
Opportunity is real, but it is scattered, gate-kept and hard to reach. Skills go untrained because no one names what is needed. We exist to close that distance.
Every number is a household. Oxfordshire-specific figures are refreshed each quarter with the local LSIP evidence base.
The method
One bridge. Three spans.
A skills plan is only worth the jobs it reaches. We turn what employers need into training people can take and work they can start, and we keep the evidence that it happened.
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Listen
Employers across Oxfordshire name the skills they are short of, in their own words. Not a survey that gathers dust, a live signal of what the local economy actually needs.
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Build
Colleges, training providers and apprenticeships shape provision around that demand, so a course leads somewhere real and a learner is never trained for a job that was never coming.
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Connect
Local people are matched to the opportunities created on their doorstep, with on-the-ground support, and every placement is recorded as audit-grade evidence the plan is working.
Who it's for
Three sides of one local economy.
Training providers
See real, local employer demand before you build a course. Fill cohorts with learners who have a destination, and report outcomes the moment a placement lands.
Meet the demand →People
Find the jobs, apprenticeships and training created where you live, matched to you, with people beside you who want you to get the role. Your street. Your skyline. Your job.
Find local opportunity →
Rooted in Oxfordshire
A plan for this place, not a template from somewhere else.
Oxfordshire is one of the most productive economies in the country and one of the most uneven. Bridging the Gap is the local response: employer-led, evidence-backed, and built so the growth here reaches the people here first.
Enter the platformListened toOxfordshire employers
Aligned withThe Oxfordshire LSIP
Delivered withLocal colleges & providers
Measured asAudit-grade evidence
Help close the gap.
Whether you hire, you train, or you are looking for your next step, the bridge starts here.