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Gas Safety Week Top Tips
It’s Gas Safety Week, watch Stopcocks Women Plumbers short video of nine easy to follow tips to help you keep your home and family safe.
Gas leaks can cause explosions and less dramatically but just as dangerous, poorly functioning gas appliances can lead to carbon monoxide poisoning. This can cause nasty headaches, sickness and even death.
Please act on these simple to follow tips.
WIT 2018, The 2nd Women Installers Together Conference
WIT 2018, the 2nd Women Installers Together Conference took place on 4th July. We’re still flushed with success (see what we did there?)
Here’s some of the feedback from women who attended.
Winner of the Installer MERIT award
Little did Hattie know, but she was going to receive an Installer MERIT award and luring her to the church was just part of the plan…
What’s the Fuss about the WIT Conference?
Last September an extraordinary thing, the WIT Conference, happened. It really shouldn’t have been that special to have 80 women plumbers in a room at one time but it was. Mica May from Stopcocks Women Plumbers explains what makes the Women Installers Together Conference this July 4th so unusual.
Why Do New Businesses Fail?
Why do so many new businesses fail? The vast majority of us would prefer the freedom and flexibility of working for ourselves, so what stops us and what stops so many of us who try it succeeding? It isn’t skill, in most cases we’re good at doing what we set our new...
DIY and Your Own Business – The Reality
Why do it all on your own? Most new businesses fail in the first few years because the people making them who had wanted to spend their time doing the thing they’re great at, have to not do that thing. They have to spend their time learning a whole new set of skills that they may not enjoy or be good at – while their home, food, quite probably their relationship and children depend on them getting it right.
It doesn’t have to be this way with all that unnecessary pressure.
Let us be your W.I.F.E.
Are you a skilled woman plumber or gas engineer who wants to work for yourself? Perhaps what you need is a W.I.F.E. Consider the Stopcocks Women Plumbers proposal. Many women who train in skilled trades want to work for themselves, but once they get a job they realise...
Feedback from Women Installers Together Conference
We know that not all the women plumbers and gas engineers in UK managed to attend the first ever WIT Conference on 13th September, but the feedback from people who did has been so very positive we're definitely going to do it again next summer! Here are some...
How Stopcocks Mentoring Works
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]One of the attractions of buying a Stopcocks Women Plumbers franchise is the Stopcocks Mentoring Scheme. We know that plumbing is so complicated and the situations plumbers encounter are so varied, even very experienced plumbers can...
Case Study of a Stopcocks Franchisee
We are often asked for a Case Study of a woman plumber or a case study of a typical Stopcocks franchisee. Our experience shows that there is no typical Stopcocks franchisee, so there isn't a typical case study; here though, very briefly is Julie's story. Julie...