The Accelerate Project is part funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and will drive Cheshire and Warrington’s growth and productivity through targeted and responsive skills development for employed people, to encourage employment progression and widen career choices, and to tackle disadvantage. Taking a holistic approach to the skills agenda, addressing all skills levels and focusing on priority employment sectors (informed by the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP’s) Strategic Economic Plan and associated Skills and Education Plan and the emerging Local Industrial Strategy), the project will minimise the current gap between the skills employers seek to recruit and the skills that local employee-learners acquire.