by Mica May | May 11, 2021 | Industry, Industry diversity, Media, News
Mental Health Awarness Month Why do the plumbing and heating industries, in common with the rest of construction and maintenance have such a poor mental health record and how would greater diversity and inclusion help? Why do the plumbing and heating...
by Mica May | May 10, 2021 | Industry diversity, Media, News, Training
Our Industry Hangs In The Balance What can be done to achieve balance in an overwhelmingly unbalanced industry? There’s no way in any universe that what we have in skilled trades now could be described as “in balance”. The proportion of women is...
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 | Nov 30, 2018 | Business, For Customers, Industry diversity
This article from Boiler Guide about the low numbers of female heating engineers is so interesting and well researched we’re happy to point directly to it. Here are a few excerpts: 2 key accreditation bodies for the industry have estimated that: Of...
by Hattie Hasan | Jun 18, 2018 | Business, Hattie, Hattie's Book, Industry diversity, Media
On the 12th of August a reporter and photographer from Installer Magazine came up from the West Country to Calderdale to interview and film Hattie, our founder, as she worked with Stopcocks Heating Engineer Jade Adams on two old and awkward boilers in an historic...
