UKFT has developed an Awarding Organisation Forum (AOF), as part of our Sector Skills Body governance). This Forum was set up to help ensure that there is a co-ordination of activity and information between the industry and the Awarding Organisations across all nations. The Forum is informal and there is no membership fee for joining.

The UKFT AOF meets on a 6 monthly basis and Standard agenda items include:

• UKFT – Industry update (Skills gaps / Shortages from Labour Market Intelligence)
• Awarding Organisations update (Regional requests / centre updates)
• UK Vocational Qualification review – Performance of Fashion & Textiles provision
• Consultation updates (Industry and Academic)
• Fashion & Textiles UK Apprenticeship qualification update (England / NOS updates Nations)

Member Awarding Organisations s are as follows:

• ABC Awards
• AIM Awards
• City & Guilds
• Gateway Qualifications
• OCR
• PAA\VQ-SET
• Pearson
• SQA Acc
• SQA AB
• UAL

For more information on the AOF and its activity please email skills@ukft.org