Apprenticeship Funding - Levy Transfer

A levy-paying employer can choose to donate up to 50% of their apprenticeship levy fund to any other employer who can then use it to fund learning and assessment of their own apprentices. It's a way for large employers to help smaller organisations and close the skills gaps in sectors and locations they want to support - creating more job and career development opportunities across England.

Most primary and many social care employers will be non-levy payers but can receive a levy transfer from secondary care trusts or other levy paying employers. 

Please see the process below on how to access levy funding and to understand how the NCL Training Hub can help facilitate this.

If you are an organisation hoping to benefit from a levy transfer please read the Apprenticeship Funding Rules for Employers guidance below.

Watch The Education and Skills Funding Agency video to find out about the apprenticeship levy transfer, providing information for organisations wanting to transfer their levy or organisations looking to receive transferred levy funds.

Step 1:Set up a Apprenticeship Service (AS) Account

Please visit the GOV UK website to set up your apprenticeship service account here.

Please see guidance on how to set up a AS account via the below document or YouTube Video.

Step 2: Complete the levy transfer request form with the NCL Training Hub

This step gathers all the required information required in order to link the receiving employer with a transferring organisation.

Receiving Employer - the non levy paying employer/organisation who is requesting and receiving the levy transfer

Transferring Employer - the levy paying employer/organisation who is sending and gifting their levy

Step 3: Connection to the Transferring Employer

The NHSE London Apprenticeship Lead will send an introduction email to the receiving employer and the transferring employer.

The transferring employer will send a connection to your AS account

Step 4: Accept the transfer connection & add your apprentice/s onto your account

Upon receiving the transfer connection on your AS account accept this.

The next step is to add your apprentice/s onto your AS account and register your chosen training provider details.

You will be required to add the following details:

• Training Provider , Training Providers UKPRN Number, Name of apprenticeship course, cost of course (£), start date, end date

• Important note – when asked ‘Do you want to reserve funding now?’ Please select ‘No’ (This will ensure you are applying for a levy transfer otherwise you are at risk of being charged)

Please see a guidance video on YouTube below. Upon successful accepting the transfer connection and adding your apprentice onto your account, this will be sent to your chosen training provider.

Step 5: Training Provider reviews and approves 

The Training Provider must review and approve the request – you may want to email the relevant contact at the training provider to make them aware of the request and confirmation of their approval.

Step 6: Final approval by the transferring and receiving employers

Once your chosen training provider has approved – a final approval request is sent to the transferring AND receiving employer.

Both employers must approve the request.

Step 7: Completion of the levy transfer process - payments commence on a monthly basis

Upon completion of all the previous steps , the levy transfer process is complete and the monthly payments will commence.

Please note this is automatic – the receiving employer will not receive funds into their bank account – it goes automatically through the system to the training provider.