Become a Gas Engineer — Funded Skills Bootcamp for Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire

• Cohorts September to November — enrolment open now
• 10 weeks of training, then a work placement — around 8 months start to finish
• ACS gas qualifications — Core Gas Safety, CPA1 and CENWAT
• Work experience arranged for you — we find the placement, not you
• Funded places — no course fees if you’re unemployed

The funding rules are set by EMCCA, so we have to ask these before anything else. If you can say yes to all five, you’re very likely eligible — the form takes about two minutes.

1. You live in an eligible postcode. The bootcamp is for people living in specific Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire postcodes.
2. You’re 19 or older. You need to be 19 or over on or before 31 August this year.
3. You’ve lived in England for the past three years and can work in the UK. Three consecutive years’ residence in England, plus the right to work — you’ll show evidence (like a passport) at enrolment.
4. You’re in work, self-employed, unemployed, or returning after a break. All four are welcome. If you’re employed there’s an employer contribution — see "What it costs" below.
5. You’re not already on government-funded learning. If you’re part-way through another funded course (a BTEC, for example) or you’ve already done a Skills Bootcamp this funding year (August–July), you can’t hold a funded place on this one too — it’s one Skills Bootcamp per funding year.

At enrolment you’ll need to show ID and right-to-work evidence — a passport is easiest — plus proof of your address. Nothing unusual: roughly what you’d bring to start a new job. We’ll tell you exactly what to bring before your start date.

This is the same gas programme we already run — built around the ACS qualifications employers actually check for:

• Core Gas Safety — the foundation every gas engineer needs before anything else
• CPA1 — flue gas analysers: testing and interpreting combustion readings
• CENWAT — central heating boilers and water heaters: the work most domestic gas jobs are made of

You’ll learn in the training centre for 10 weeks — theory and hands-on practical work — and then move into work experience. We arrange the placement for you. Start to finish, the programme runs around 8 months, and you come out with the qualifications and real on-the-job experience, not just a certificate.

1. Weeks 1–10: train. Classroom and practical training at our training centre in the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire area.
2. Then: work experience. We place you with an employer — you get real installs, real customers, real sign-off hours. You don’t have to find this yourself.
3. Finish: qualified. Complete your ACS assessments and leave with Core Gas Safety, CPA1 and CENWAT — around 8 months after you started.

If you’re unemployed: the course is fully funded — no course fees.

If you’re employed or self-employed: funding covers most of the cost, with a contribution of £650 — usually paid by your employer if they’re supporting you to retrain or upskill.

Cohorts are running across September to November. Enrolment is open now, and with eligibility and evidence checks to complete before day one, the earlier you apply the better — we’ll confirm your start date on the call.

Two minutes. If you qualify, we’ll call you to talk through the course, the start date that suits you, and exactly what to bring.

This project is funded by the Mayor of the East Midlands and the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA).