The Opportunity Provider
Upskilling Businesses. Changing Lives

The Opportunity Provider is a group of award-winning training and assessment specialists dedicated to creating opportunity through skills that transform lives and businesses.

Bringing together HIT Training (Hospitality), Connect2Care (Adult Care, Early Years and Funeral Services), EDN Training (Leadership and Management), and Professional Assessment (End-Point Assessment and Provider Support), we deliver high-quality apprenticeships and training across England. As an employee-owned business, our purpose is simple - to upskill businesses, change lives, and build a sustainable future for people, employers, and society.

HIT Training

• Chef Academy • Brewing Academy

• Hospitality and Retail

Powering the People Behind Great Hospitality

We help hospitality businesses reach their potential faster through training that drives performance, passion, and pride. Our programmes are built around improving service standards and increasing customer satisfaction, delivered by people who’ve lived and breathed the industry.

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Connect2Care

• Adult Care • Healthcare • Early Years/Nursery

• Funeral Service

Training people who care for others

We make training personal, practical, and purposeful for care, early years, and funeral service professionals, helping people succeed and employers build strong, sustainable teams.

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EDN Training

• Leadership and Management

• Coaching and Mentoring • Corporate Training

Developing Leaders and Enhancing Workforce Capability

We partner with businesses across the UK’s Industrial Strategy sectors to strengthen capability where it matters most - developing leaders who inspire, teams that deliver, and organisations built for growth.

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Professional Assessment

• Assessment

• Audit and compliance services

Recognising Talent and Delivering Independent High-Quality Assessment, Awarding and Audit Support Services.

Professional Assessment Ltd provides trusted, responsive assessment and compliance support. Our proactive communication, reliability, and sector expertise make us the partner of choice for training providers and employers who value fairness, speed, and peace of mind.

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Our shared vision is to create lasting opportunity - for people, through skills that transform lives; for employers, through talent that grows business; and for society, through sustainable skills that protect the planet and boost the economy.

Develop Your Team. Grow Your Own Talent.

Support your staff, boost outcomes, and stay ahead in a changing FE landscape.

The Opportunity Provider supports independent training providers to build confident, capable delivery teams through apprenticeship-based workforce development.

Our education offer focuses exclusively on helping you train your own staff—from new trainers and assessors to advanced teachers and mentors.

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