How NOT to Run a Security Training Centre

Every year, somebody decides that running a security training centre looks like easy money. How hard can it be? You need a room, a projector, a few chairs and a mate with a teaching qualification. Then the awarding organisation wants to see your policies, the EQA wants to see your evidence, half your funded learners don't turn up and the projector refuses to talk to the laptop.

I've spent nearly thirty years in this industry, working doors, events and close protection while training, assessing and quality assuring alongside it. I've seen centres that are a genuine credit to the sector and centres that should never have been let anywhere near a classroom. This book is what I've learned from both, and it's honest, funny in places and sweary in others.

Inside is everything nobody puts in the approval paperwork, including:

• whether you should really be running a training centre at all

• choosing an awarding organisation and getting approved

• what it actually costs, and how to make money without cutting corners

• building a team you can trust

• running courses properly (and why shortcuts always get found out)

• why your IQA is your best friend, and how to survive your EQA

• marketing your centre without making a show of yourself

• adding spectator safety and first aid

• funding, including the bits that have quietly bankrupted people

• growing the business, or getting out of it with your sanity intact

What you won't find is a single shortcut. If you're after loopholes, put it back on the shelf. If you want to run a centre that turns out people who can actually do the job, and still sleep at night, grab a coffee. You're going to need it.

Paperback, 353 pages, 2026. Limited stock.