To assist and support our employers and learners, MJTS are in partnership with Peninsula.

Established since 1983, Peninsula are market leaders in providing support for around 25,000 businesses in the UK with employment, HR issues and Health and Safety management. Peninsula offer all our employers a basic level of indemnified advice and support in employment law and health & safety when required.

Peninsula and Michaeljohn invite all employers to free seminars throughout the year where we talk about how Peninsula’s services, partnered with MJTS’s knowledge of the sector and training hairdressing and barbering may support and benefit your business, allowing you to concentrate on the important focus of business growth. Our partnership is tailored to serve your business.

Contact MJTS for more advice or contact Steve.Oakes@peninsula-uk.com tel: 07814 585 089. As an employer you may contact 0844 249 1146 quote reference: MJ01 for free basic advice and support.

Apprenticeship age grant

The Greater Manchester Apprenticeship Age Grant for Employers (GM AGE, 16- 24 year olds) The Greater Manchester Apprenticeship Grant for employers shall be replaced by the funding reforms effective as of 1st May 2017.

The Greater Manchester Apprenticeship Grant for Employers (GM AGE) for 16 to 24 year olds supports Greater Manchester businesses to recruit individuals aged 16 to 24 into employment through the apprenticeship programme that would otherwise not be in a position to do so. GM AGE is available in relation to apprentices working to approved apprenticeship frameworks and standards.

If eligible, you can receive up to 3 grants in total. The Greater Manchester (GM) AGE is a grant of £1500 for GM employers who recruit an apprentice where you have not employed an Apprentice in the previous 12 months. It replaces the national AGE offer within Greater Manchester.

GM employers can apply for additional incentives each of these is worth £1000, if their Apprentice is and existing Trainee progressing from a completed Traineeship to Apprenticeship within a 4 week period, or an Advanced or Higher Apprenticeship. If criteria are met for both of the additional incentives then you may be eligible for a total grant of £3500.