by Hattie Hasan | Dec 30, 2012 | Training, Want to become a plumber?
One of the more radical innovations of the Stopcocks scheme for creating fully qualified, skilled female plumbers is for all Stopcocks Plumbers to be self-employed from the beginning. Many years ago when Stopcocks was Stopcocks Woman Plumber Hattie tried having an...
by Hattie Hasan | Dec 5, 2012 | Business, Training, Want to become a plumber?
Plumbing can be the perfect new career for women. Many seemingly successful women are finding that high status jobs aren’t always the bed of roses they’ve been lead to believe in by our driven culture. We’ve been surprised at the calibre of the women...
by Hattie Hasan | Nov 23, 2012 | Training, Want to become a plumber?
This is Lilian Baumbach, the first woman who trained to Master Plumber level in 1951 in USA. There is no record of the first woman to train as a plumber in UK although we know that a woman plumber helped Jewish refugees escape from Nazi Germany during WW11, so women...
by Hattie Hasan | Nov 3, 2012 | Training, Want to become a plumber?
Without work based learning training in plumbing is as useful as learning to drive in a car park and never going out on the road. It doesn’t matter that your workshop training was brilliant, if you don’t have the opportunity to hone your skills in real...
by Hattie Hasan | Oct 22, 2012 | Training, Want to become a plumber?
A woman in Scotland contacted us. She’d just signed up with a large private training institution to train as a plumber here in England. I know there’s a difference in the qualifications in England from in Scotland, so I checked. I found that a plumber who...
by Hattie Hasan | Oct 19, 2012 | Business, Training, Want to become a plumber?
Trainees contact us an a daily basis asking about becoming an apprentice plumber with us. I’m sorry to have to burst your bubble. In spite of what the government tell us, apprenticeships in plumbing (more so than many other trades) are about as rare as a black...
