Harrogate Group plc

Through Ngage Training (“Ngage”), the Company offers 90-day residential personality development and vocational courses to local authorities in England for young adults aged between 16 and 18 who have left school but are not in employment or further education to whom the client local authority owes a care obligation under The Children Act 1989. Courses are staffed by ex- British Army personnel at locations outside the relevant client authorities’ catchment areas and are based on modules of a course proprietary to Ngage, originally devised by Manchester Metropolitan University. Each course consists of 32 trainees, divided into four groups of eight, each with a group leader. The ratio of residential training staff to trainees is 3: 16. Initially, Ngage’s offering is for male trainees only although, as resources permit, consideration will be given to developing courses for young women as well.