How to obtain rail sponsorship

[Laurence]

Hey there, I am a self employed Health and Safety professional. I want to break in to the rail industry but I am struggling with the need for sponsorship. I am happy to self fund the full PTS and COSS courses to upskill myself appropriately, but ive hit the usual paradox.

You cant get on a course without sponsorship, and nobody seems to want to sponsor anyone unless they already have the tickets!

I contacted orion in birmingham who explicitly state on their website that they sponsor people, but they say they dont sponsor people for training.

anybody else overcome this problem and if so how did you do it?

If anybody knows of any companies that will sponsor people through their self funded training I would very much appreciate the share, alternatively if you are a company that would be willing to sponsor me so I can do my training I would be happy to pay for the priviledge.

thanks in advance

 

[Elecman]

You have to hold PTS for sometime with plenty of trackside exoerience before you can train as a COSS

 

[Laurence]

ok thanks for that Elecman. Still getting the pts opens the door which then makes getting coss much easier. Any ideas?

 

[Zerocool]

Some training companies have sponsors on site that will sponsor you for the pts training. What I would do is call around the different companies that offer the training and ask them if they have the ability to provide sponsorship for the duration of the course.

 

[Elecman]

Some training companies have sponsors on site that will sponsor you for the pts training. What I would do is call around the different companies that offer the training and ask them if they have the ability to provide sponsorship for the duration of the course.

Unfortunately, you need a primary sponsor all the time for your Sentinel card to remain valid, as losing your sponsor automatically invalidates the Sentinel registration

 

[Stuart-h]

Youd need to have a fair amount of track experience before any sponcer will put you forward to do the coss course.