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 | Sep 22, 2018 | Media, Speaking, WIT Conference
Stopcocks Women Plumbers founder has decided to produce a line of T shirts emblazoned with the hashtag # WomenArePlumbersGetOverIt. It’s the exact opposite to our usual approach, so what’s prompted it? On Monday, founder Hattie was featured in a radio...
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...
by Hattie Hasan | Sep 17, 2017 | Business, Media, Speaking
A report in The Times, 16th September stated female and elderly customers ‘routinely overcharged’ by up to 53%. Stopcocks Women Plumbers founder Hattie Hasan was asked to respond in an interview with Yasmeen Khan on Talk Radio. The research, carried...
by Hattie Hasan | Sep 17, 2017 | Media, WIT Conference
The first coverage of the Women Installers Together Conference 2017 was published by Builders Merchants News on Thursday. The magazine heralded the unique event a success. Hosted by Stopcocks Women Plumbers and supported by partners Polypipe Trade and Heating and...