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Building Growth (in Norfolk and Suffolk) Skills Network (BGSN)

Building Growth Skills Network (BGSN) for Norfolk and Suffolk

Growing the skills, inspiration, innovation and collaboration required to deliver sustainable development in Norfolk and Suffolk.

What BGSN do

The BGSN helps to equip our local construction workforce with the labour and skills required to both facilitate and maximise the local benefits from this growth as well as enable the shift, through new building techniques and technologies, to a sustainable and net zero future.

What we can offer you

Opportunities for collaboration between experienced sector professionals including large employers, colleges and professional bodies to find solutions to current and future sector-based challenges.
Connections to funding opportunities to support you with training costs, apprenticeships and other sector projects.
Links to regional projects, providing you with opportunities to grow your business.
A network of established training providers to support you to develop your workforce and develop effective recruitment pipelines.
Sharing of best practices to diversify your workforce, through the creation of inclusive workplaces that provide equitable employment.

Join our Network

You can grow your own skills and help lead the way to make construction a more diverse, inclusive and sustainable sector. Email the Skills team to join the network.

Email to join

Our Action Groups and Associated Networks

Read more about how our Action Groups support the development and growth of the construction industry. View how our associated networks can offer further training opportunities and work to influence change within the Construction Industry.

Grow Action Group

Leading the way on expanding the workforce through upskilling and inclusion.

Construction workers on top of building in a work site

Inspire Action Group

Taking action to expand diversity within the Construction Industry

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Supply and Demand Group

Representation from providers primarily focused on the supply and demand of provision.

Cages attached to two cranes on a construction site

Sustain Action Group

Coordinating work across providers in the region about sustainable construction.

Two construction workers walking in front of solar panels

Skills Bootcamps

Read more about how you can gain free skills, part of the Government's Lifetime Skills Guarantee, funded by the Department for Education.

Construction East

We promote construction, communicate a clear education pathway to students and highlight the region's opportunities.

A large scale of uplift in jobs will be required in key roles to support retrofit measures to meet Net Zero targets, including heat pump engineers and solid wall insultation installers.

The volume of construction work in the East of England is forecast to grow by an annual average rate of 2.2% between 2023 and 2027.

Around £70 billion of new infrastructure work is planned for Norfolk and Suffolk between now and 2037. This will result in the need for around 43,000 jobs.