History

Introducing In-Talent 

Transforming recruitment through skills, training and long-term talent. Powered by In-Comm Training, delivering industry-ready talent from day one.

Awards celebrates its 15th Birthday

2026 was the 15th year of the In-Comm Awards and they have firmly been established as one of the leading West Midlands ceremonies for recognising young and adult learners as well as employers.

Inclusivity & Diversity Day Launched

Leading a movement for a more inclusive future in engineering and manufacturing. The launch of each years initiative will happen on June 10th each year.

£200k investment into Robotics and Automation training cell

Funded through the Local Skills Improvement Framework and the Marches Education Partnership in a major boost to the Marches’ advanced engineering capability.

Launch of ‘fast track’ employment course

In-Comm Training joined forces with RTX’s Collins Aerospace, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) to help unemployed people into advanced manufacturing jobs.

£429,000 funding boost to increase advanced manufacturing skills modularised courses

In-Comm Training awarded ‘Higher Level Skills’ funding by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) in a bid to help industry bridge the skills and competency gaps.

Gestamp and In-Comm launch new training centre

One of the UK’s leading automotive suppliers joined forces with In-Comm Training to boost its learning and development offer and support employee retention.

The launch of our £3 technical academy in Telford

20,000 sq ft of manufacturing training space, fitting it out with new equipment and state-of-the-art technology.

The UK’s first ever Precision Tooling Academy

Launched thanks to a pioneering partnership between in-comm training and brandauer. The £1m Precision Tooling Academy is set to reverse toolmaking skills crisis

The Bridgnorth facility relocates to a purpose-built technical academy in telford.

Launch of the Marches Center of Manufacturing & Technology

In-Comm, working in partnership with Dudley College, launches the Marches element of the Black Country and Marches Institute of Technology.

‘Equip the Recovery’ Launch

To help businesses and learners come through the covid-19 pandemic.

Creation of the Advanced Manufacturing Centre at Aldridge.

Strategic partnership enables in-comm to open a £5m, 36,000 sq ft state-of-the-art facility in Bridgnorth called MCMT.

Same year, In-Comm is accredited Ofsted ‘outstanding’ for the first time in our history.

In-Comm forms a strategic partnership with SDE Technologies and opens In-Comm Training Academy Shropshire (ITAS).

Bekki Phillips & Gareth Jones become Managing Directors

Group manufacturers association merges with In-Comm GTA to form Training & Manufacturing Group (TMG).

In-Comm Group Training Association is formed. 

In-Comm launches first-ever In-Comm Training Awards.

In-Comm rebrands to In-Comm Training & Business Services ltd.

Geoff Jones and Colin Mills become equal partners of the business.

In-Comm has 11 centres stretching from Worcester across to Newtown, Wales.

In-Comm Training Services ltd is formed.

I.C.F.C (Industrial Commercial Finance Corporation) steps in to support industry. 

E.I.G.A Group becomes the ‘West Midlands GTA (group manufacturers association). 

Engineering Industry Group Apprenticeship (E.I.G.A) is created.