Leading tool firm, Draper Tools, launched its 2022 tool advent calendar earlier this year, featuring 24 doors of tools to open in the countdown to Christmas. With Christmas being the season of goodwill, the company pledged to donate £1 from the sale of every calendar to the children’s charity, Cash for Kids. The calendar proved…
Caring power workers are aiming to make Christmas a little better for their local communities struggling during the cost of living crisis by gathering tins, tea bags and treats for food banks. UK Power Networks employees are generously collecting donations for the Trussell Trust food banks and already the tins and packets are flooding in….
Campaigning electrical trade association SELECT has issued an urgent appeal to Deputy First Minister John Swinney, asking him to allocate additional funding for apprenticeships to prevent a shortfall in essential training. Scotland’s voice of the electrical industry is calling on Mr Swinney to use some of the £46 million of extra money announced for colleges…
2022 has been a busy year for the Electrical Safety Roundtable (ESR), and as it comes to an end, we take time to reflect on our achievements and look ahead to what is to come in 2023. Our biggest event of the year was the Parliamentary Reception, which was sponsored by Mark Fletcher MP, and…
National construction charity Band of Builders (BoB) is gearing up for an increase in use of its new mental health text service during the festive period – following new figures that indicate that 5,583 people died by suicide in Britain during the last year. The charity launched the service in October as part of its…
JTL, one of the leading apprenticeship providers in the building services engineering sector in England and Wales, is reminding those in the trade industry of the advantages of taking on an apprentice with a new campaign exploring employers’ experience of apprenticeships. The ‘Employers like YOU hire apprentices’ campaign encourages employers to take on apprentices by sharing…
Hull-based Head-on Electrical has taken a positive stride towards switching its entire van fleet to clean, green battery power. The successful contractor runs a fleet of 12 vans, each racked to carry tools, cabling and other components used by its electricians to take on assignments for a wide range of commercial and domestic clients across…
THE WIRE, NICEIC’s hit technical webinar programme, has smashed all previous records, more than doubling its reach in 2022. Delivering 22 episodes between January to December, the season racked up an impressive 80,000 views through its live broadcasts and on-demand service. Furthermore, audiences for the live broadcasts were up a whopping 50% vs the previous…
Power workers from the UK’s biggest electricity distributor are helping to fast-track EV charging in petrol stations, to support the Government’s Ten-Point Plan for Net Zero. UK Power Networks has worked with the UK’s largest independent forecourt operator Motor Fuel Group (MFG) to speed up the provision of public chargepoints while improving air quality. The…
A new report from Cornwall Insight and Complete Strategy – ‘Bad debt and energy suppliers: A systemic risk’ – has shown domestic energy suppliers could be exposed to approximately £1.9bn of debt1, of which a significant portion could be unrecoverable. The amount of unrecoverable debt, known as bad debt, facing suppliers is increasing with the…