The details make the quote: how many learners or employees, the level, accreditation, the dates and whether it runs at your premises. Send one request with them and we pass it to skills development facilitators and consultants working in Stellenbosch and nearby areas of Western Cape.
Skills Development Facilitators in Stellenbosch
Need a skills development facilitator in Stellenbosch? Say which SETA your company falls under, your headcount and number of sites, whether you have submitted a WSP and ATR before, and when you need help from. SDFs who work in Western Cape can then quote well before the 30 April deadline.
New to this? Read the skills development facilitators guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
Training & skills development in Stellenbosch: local notes
The university and medical campus need staff development and leadership programmes, and tech and agri-tech firms in Technopark book soft skills and new manager training. Wine estates and farms work with AgriSETA on learnerships and skills programmes. Many private training providers also travel from Cape Town to run facilitator and assessor courses here, often in-house for a group of staff from one employer.
Facilitation work in Stellenbosch
A university town surrounded by wine farms, Stellenbosch attracts two kinds of bookings. The first is academic and research: the university, its business and medical schools, and the tech firms in Technopark book staff development, leadership programmes and workshops. The second comes from Cape Town and further away, since companies and boards bring strategy days, executive offsites and conferences to wine estates in the Jonkershoek, Helshoogte and Banhoek valleys. Local NPOs in Kayamandi and Cloetesville run youth and community programmes. Delegates speak Afrikaans, English and isiXhosa. The town is about 50 km from Cape Town and close to the airport. Summer heat in the valleys and winter rain both shape plans for outdoor team building.
The requests we see from Stellenbosch usually come from:
- Companies and head offices: group SDF work across several companies and sites, with grant claims and B-BBEE skills files
- NPOs, churches and community groups: larger NPOs with a payroll over the threshold that want their levy back as a grant
- Small and family businesses: a growing firm that has just passed the R500,000 payroll mark and needs its first WSP
Local tips for Stellenbosch
Booked most in Stellenbosch: board and executive offsites on wine estates, campus staff training, tech firm workshops. Where providers and venues are: wine estates in Jonkershoek, Helshoogte and Banhoek, Technopark and the town centre. A useful tip: ask whether the estate's conference room can be darkened for projection.
Around Stellenbosch the largest group asking is companies and head offices, which usually means group SDF work across several companies and sites, with grant claims and B-BBEE skills files. Before you agree to anything: WSP and ATR at the SETA by 30 April. Getting there: about 45 minutes from the airport; delegates often stay over on the estates.
Service area: Stellenbosch and surrounds
Briefs from Stellenbosch go to providers that already work in Kayamandi, Idas Valley, Cloetesville, Technopark, Somerset West, Jamestown, Franschhoek and the rest of the area. Say whether the session is at your premises or a venue, and whether you need help finding one.