After a long period of writing and delivering non-accredited Skills for Life training for learndirect staff, UfI commissioned Simons Associates to help them develop Level 2 accredited training. Simons Associates approached the Basic Skills Agency to develop a contextualised version of their Level 2 ‘Link Up’ course and subsequently gained funding from the Skills for Life Quality Initiative to run pilots of the full course with learndirect hubs and centres in London in 2005.  The pilot courses achieved 100% success rates for participants. Since then Simons Associates has trained learndirect’s’ London region SfL Hub Co-coordinators to cascade delivery of the L2 courses and is continuing to deliver courses in north London.