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Painting, Decorating, basic Plumbing & Electrical training.

29-31 Lambert Road
London
E16 3NN

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Tel: 020 7511 3951

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Skillshop is designed to train for the “fit out” and “finishing” part of the building industry. It focuses on painting and decorating with some elements of plumbing and electrical work attached. Skillshop is a small unit that takes up to 10 trainees at any one time affording an intimate environment suited to learning for young people.

Skillshop is geared to helping local young people get on the first rung towards a qualification and a trade. After Skillshop it is hoped that the young person gets a thirst for more learning and skill development. Skillshop is part of the Custom House and Canning Town Community Renewal Project. Skillshop uses a building on Lambert Road E16 that is fully equipped to deliver training in these basic building trades.

Skillshop is gearing up to offer City & Guilds qualifications starting with 6217 - an Introduction to Basic Construction Skills - and will then move to offer an NVQ level 1 in the same subject area. Skillshop will work with others local providers to offer the widest range of options within those qualifications. For those who are interested in the 12 week taster courses Skillshop prepares its own qualification.

Skillshop presently trains year 10 and year 11 school students on its different days of operation. It works with trainees from Turnaround many of whom have been excluded from school and on other days it works with students who have choosen construction as an option. There are plans to extend provision beyond school students given the right circumstances.

The qualifications Skillshop will offer will be practiced on and assessed at the Lambert Road Site. In order to make Skillshop a reality for the trainees a number of different spaces have been developed so that the routine tasks required for assessment can be performed. In order to add further reality and variation the main St. Luke’s building (the painting and decorating equivalent of the Forth Bridge) is being made available for real situation scenarios.

Skillshop benefited from a tail end grant from SRB6 which was used to make capital improvements to the Lambert Road building with some revenue to get going. Now Skillshop makes the income it needs from the sale of its training product to training purchasers associated with Newham’s Education Department.

Skillshop has 2 full time staff.