Government-funded AI training for your team
Turn your existing team into AI experts. The UK government pays for it.
Your business could cut its overheads or bring in a lot more revenue with one person in it who really knows AI. Now there's a way to get that, from inside your own team, and the UK government funds 95 to 100 percent of it. Watch the video to see how.
- Delivered by ELA
- Rated Good by Ofsted
UK businesses that don't adapt to AI will fall behind
- Cost. Your competitors are doing the same work with fewer people and less spend, and putting the savings back into their business.
- Speed. Clients go to whoever gets it back to them quickest.
- Growth. The businesses using AI properly take on more work without taking on more people.
“Running my first company took six people: social media, marketing, funnels, copy, creative and sales. That was costing me £30,000 a month. Now, in my new company, I run all of it with one system and one person who knows how to operate it, for less than £5,000 a month.”
Three ways owners try to get AI in, and why they fall short
Train the people you already have to run it
- Up to £18,000of training per person
- 95 to 100%funded by the government
- About a day a weekfor eighteen months, on your real work
For the staff you already have, at any age. It's the Level 4 AI and Automation Practitioner apprenticeship: one-to-one training from an industry trainer, covering AI tools, process mapping, automation and using AI safely, on tools you already have like Microsoft Copilot and Power Automate. It ends with a real job in your business automated.
What your business gets
Your people pick the jobs that eat the most time in your business and automate them, one real job at a time. For example:
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The Friday report
The report that takes up half of every Friday, built for you automatically.
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Customer emails
Customer emails sorted and drafted before anyone's in.
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Invoices
Invoices matched to payments without anyone copying and pasting.
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Quotes
The enquiry comes in, the quote goes out, without anyone sitting down to build it.
Built on tools you probably already have: Microsoft Copilot, Power Automate and Power BI, alongside OpenAI's tools. Their final project is a real automation running inside your business, and it's assessed at the end.
- 11 hrssaved a week per trained person, more than double untrained staff (LSE, 2025)
- 77%of employers saw productivity go up from their apprenticeships (DfE, 2023)
- 3 in 4employers who trained their own staff saw them stay longer (DfE, 2023)
- £0added to payroll. The skills come from people already on it
Who delivers it
ELA has trained people in the workplace for fifteen years. Rated Good by Ofsted in every area, trusted by the DWP and three NHS trusts, and CBRE has trained its people with them for seven years. Every learner gets one-to-one training from someone who's worked in industry, built around their actual job.
- 15years training people in the workplace
- GoodOfsted, in every area (2024)
- 100+staff, trainers from industry
- 1:1delivery, built around the job
- DWPand three NHS trusts
- 5awarding bodies, incl. City & Guilds
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What learners and employers say
Questions owners usually ask
What if they leave once they're trained?
It tends to go the other way. Three in four employers who trained their own staff through an apprenticeship saw better retention (DfE, 2023).
We can't spare anyone for a day a week.
That day is protected learning time, built around your own processes, so what they learn goes straight back into the business. 77 percent of employers saw productivity go up from their apprenticeships (DfE, 2023).
Is our client data safe?
Yes. Using AI safely is part of the programme: what's safe to put in, what isn't, and how to set it up properly. Half of workers using AI today have had no training on that (Deloitte, 2026).
Can I use my apprenticeship levy?
Yes. Levy payers fund the training from their levy account, and levy funds entering your account from August 2026 expire after 12 months if unused.
What if we haven't got the right people?
You'd be surprised who takes to this. The people who do best usually know your processes inside out, in ops, admin or accounts. If there's genuinely nobody, ELA can recruit into the role on the same funding.
What do I have to do?
Give your people the time, and ELA handles the paperwork.
What's the catch on the funding?
The catch is that it's a proper programme: eighteen months at about a day a week. If you pay the apprenticeship levy, it comes out of your levy. Most other businesses pay 5 percent, and nothing for staff aged 16 to 24. Paul works out your exact figure on the call.
See if you qualify
Speak with our team
A thirty-minute call with Paul to see if your business qualifies and which of your staff could move forward. You'll find out:
- where your team's losing the most time, and which of your people could take this on
- what they'd build first, and what it would save you
- exactly what your business qualifies for, and what it would cost you
3 quick questions, about a minute. Then pick a time that suits you.
ELA trains one-to-one, so places on each month's intake are limited.