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 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 24, 2018 | Franchise, Join us, Training, Want to become a plumber?, 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...
by Hattie Hasan | Nov 3, 2017 | Franchise, Our Plumbers, Training, Want to become a plumber?
[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...
by Hattie Hasan | Sep 29, 2016 | Business, For Customers, Hattie, Media, Training
Quality Plumbing Week 2016 starts on October 3rd Transforming the reputation of an industry – is one week enough? For the last few years attempts are being made to address the lamentable reputation of plumbers among British Householders; APAC run their yearly...
by Hattie Hasan | Jan 31, 2016 | Training, Trip to Kenya, Water
Who are Water Women; Rainwater Harvesting? Why are we doing this? How have we achieved it and what are the future plans? Water Women has grown from an idea in 2011 into real results in the form of a system that can gather and store 40000 litres of harvested rainwater...
