Today Eastbourne-based Baldwin Training employs 27 people, works with more than 100 organisations in Sussex and Kent and is celebrating the result of its first Ofsted inspection which judged the company to be 'outstanding' in two categories.
In addition, the company which trains more than 210 learners on government-funded programmes and an additional 54 learners on private courses, has just been awarded the Training Quality Standard, created by the Learning and Skills Council to develop a new higher standard for training providers.
Baldwin Training, based in Longstone Road, Eastbourne, is one of only 42 providers in the country to have been awarded the standard which recognises the best organisations delivering training and development to employers.
Baldwin Training is also a Train to Gain provider which gives employees who work in the care industry the chance to study for NVQs in care, leadership and management, and it also runs an apprenticeship programme for learners under the age of 25.