Academy of Ambition SPF Skills Development Project Smashes Expectations in Wrexham

Our 'Academy of Ambition' UKSPF skills development project in Wrexham County has successfully completed and has exceeded all expectations and targets.

In 18 months, including our previous SPF skills project, we’ve delivered skills development to over 380 people and students in Wrexham, well beyond our projected numbers.

Thank you to everyone who has supported us along the way. And thanks to our fantastic team for all your efforts. 

Since September 2025:

• 151 professionals and entrepreneurs have participated in our skills courses, including 43 start up founders

  
  

• 136 apprentices and sixth form students have taken part in programmes to develop employment and life skills

  
  

• +87 is our final net promoter score, a great endorsement!

  
  

• 1 'Next Generation' Wrexham Business & Community Award was won for our skills project (awards photo credited to Mike at Lucky Shot Creative).

Our aim with this project was to make skills development accessible to as many people as possible. So we delivered sessions in Redwither Tower, in Caia Park, at Wrexham Football Academy, at Morgan Llwyd School, and at The Maelor School, Penley.

And we held evening programmes which were well attended by those who couldn't attend during the work day.

And we worked with some great Wrexham people on this project.

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Thank you to our Wrexham partners...

Big thanks to Dean Fagan, Ruby Snape and your colleagues from Wrexham Academy of Screen Acting for being a fantastic addition to our interpersonal skills modules.

Thanks to Sam Regan at The Lemon Tree in Wrexham for your fantastic catering.

To the business team at Wrexham Council who pointed entrepreneurs in our direction.

To the forward thinking teachers who invited us into their schools.

To Gary Brown and Shauni Thomas from Caia Park Partnership for organising a programme in Caia Park.

And to Wrexham Young Professionals for collaborating with us.

Thank you especially to our fantastic colleagues at The Uncommon Practice for your faith and support throughout. You're all brilliant.

And most of all, we'd like to thank everyone who took part in our skills programmes. Your energy and your desire to improve yourselves was clear.

Wrexham County is full of talented, driven people who want to better their lives, their organisations and their communities and it was a pleasure to meet and work with so many of you, from different backgrounds, each with your own motivations and ambitions.

If you've taken one skill, one new nugget that helps you or inspires you to grow, then we’ve achieved our ambition.

The Academy of Ambition Continues

We're really pleased to say that the Academy of Ambition will be continuing as an independent training business, on a mission to develop the core professional, human, entrepreneurial, soft skills that we believe will be even more vital in the fast changing world of work.

We're really proud to have been able to support so many people, businesses and organisations in Wrexham County in a relatively short space of time, and we're excited to see how all of our skills programme participants progress towards achieving their ambitions.

If you would like to find out more about The Academy of Ambition and how it can help develop your teams, please get in touch with us today.