by Hattie Hasan | Jan 28, 2020 | Business, Hattie, Industry diversity, Trip to Kenya
Women plumbers are just 1 in every 100 plumbers in UK, just one of them has been awarded an MBE. That woman plumber, who proudly identifies as Turkish Cypriot, seems to have found a way to get more than the usual seven days out of every week because as well as...
by Hattie Hasan | Jan 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
The first MBE for a woman plumber goes to Hattie Hasan, founder of Stopcocks Women Plumbers for her work to increase the numbers of women in the heating and plumbing industry. Recognised in the New Year’s Honours list for her services to women in the heating and...
by Hattie Hasan | Dec 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Women Installers Together 2019 was the best yet. On July 4th 2019 the biggest group of women plumbers ever in UK met at the Building Centre. Women Installers Together at the end of the WIT 2019 Conference Not only is this the only event aimed at women in trades...
by Hattie Hasan | Sep 29, 2019 | Training, Want to become a plumber?
Stopcocks are contacted almost every week by women who want to be a plumber but are baffled by the conflicting information available. Finding a route into plumbing that works is a common dilemma that we’ve written about a great deal and provide services and strategies...
by Hattie Hasan | May 16, 2019 | Business, Franchise, Hattie, Join us, WIT Conference
Women ARE Plumbers, and women CAN plumb! Let’s move on Please! While the conversation around women plumbing is stuck at the first hurdle (the too often asked ‘can women be plumbers?’ or ‘do women want to be plumbers?’) the real issues of...