Enquiries from current Skills Funding Agency providers should be directed to the Skills Funding Agency Relationship Manager for your organisation in the first instance The Skills Funding Agency is a partner organisation of the and it exists to fund and promote adult further education and skills training in England We champion high standards of training and development through the running of vocational skills competitions and awards Additionally, we house the National Apprenticeship Service, with a field force located across the country, working to develop the relationship with business to drive forward the government's ambition for increasing In October 2011 we emerged from our restructuring as the streamlined organisation we've been promising: a more effective and efficient partner with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in a world which more than ever recognises that skills are central to the economic growth and prosperity of the nation