Your course, funded
If you’re on a jobseeker’s payment, the Department of Social Protection’s Training Support Grant can cover the cost of our 3-day BSI/QBA barista course.
What the grant is for
The Training Support Grant funds quick access to short training for jobseekers, where a Case Officer agrees that a skill or certificate would help you take up a job or other opportunity.
Eligible jobseekers and people on other qualifying payments can take our BSI/QBA (Qualified Barista Award) + HACCP Level 1 course with the costs covered. It’s our most complete course: two days of training plus a day of work experience in a specialty coffee shop, with a BSI/QBA certificate and a HACCP Level 1 certificate mapped to FSAI guidelines.
Four steps
- 01Talk to your local office
Visit your local Social Welfare (Intreo) office or speak to your Case Officer.
- 02Ask for a Training Support Grant form
Tell them it’s for the BSI/QBA barista course with Barista School Ireland.
- 03Sign it and post it to us
Barista School Ireland, 9-11 Pearse Street, Bandon, Co. Cork, P72 CF24. Don’t forget to sign it.
- 04We do the rest
We complete the form and return it to the Department. You should have a decision within about a week, and if it’s approved you’ll get an approval letter for the course.
Eligible payments
The scheme is mainly for jobseekers. Case Officers may also support people on the payments and programmes listed here.
Main payments
- Jobseeker’s Allowance
- Jobseeker’s Transitional Payment
- Jobseeker’s Benefit (including casual)
Other payments
- One-Parent Family Payment
- Signing for credits
- Blind Pension
- Farm Assist and Fish Assist
- Disability Allowance
- Widow’s, Widower’s or Surviving Civil Partner’s Pension
- Illness Benefit for 6 months or more
- Qualified adults of jobseekers who are looking for work
Programmes
- Tús
- Gateway
We’ll help you apply
Call us or send a message and we’ll talk you through it.