Waterside Training Ltd was originally founded in 1957, previously known as Lakeside Training and Development, based at Pilkington Glass Head Offices in Alexandra Park, St Helens.
Waterside Training Ltd as we are known today, was established in 1996, as a collaboration between industry and education, partnering with Pilkington/NSG Group, Knauf Insulation and St Helens College.
This long-standing successful relationship has been preserved over the decades, and continues to today, resulting in a training provider that has a reputation of providing high quality, bespoke engineering and manufacturing apprenticeship and technical training.
Waterside Training is based in St Helens and supports employers across the Northwest for apprenticeship delivery, and technical training to companies across the UK including as far away as Scotland to London.
Waterside Training Ltd has a long-standing history of working with large and small employers to develop a high-quality, bespoke apprenticeship training programmes that produces some of the highest calibre engineering and manufacturing apprentices in the Northwest of England.
Quality and excellence are what we are known for and is what we are most proud of. We have high standards in both the teaching and skills training we deliver, and in turn expect high standards of achievement from our apprentices.
We encourage all our apprentices to have high aspirations, and we motivate and inspire them, in partnership with our employers, to achieve the very best that that they can.
Our Mission
“To promote health and safety and the sustainable future of industry through excellence in skills” is at the core of our business, alongside creating and maintaining outstanding collaborative relationships with our employers.