In February 2014, West Cheshire College received the Investors in People Silver Standard award. In June 2014 it was reported in the "Chester Chronicle" the college had fallen on hard financial times and thus was looking to cut more than 100 jobs and close its Chester campus to save more than £3 million. In January 2015, the college announced that its Handbridge campus would indeed be closing. Reporting the closure, the "Chester Chronicle" said, "The college says that their financial position is due to a high level of borrowing taken out to finance the college re-build and its declining trading position, and the excessive long term borrowing which the college now faces is 'a result of the size, location and financing of the new builds in 2011'".