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Featured Tradeswomen – Cathy Cockin
Hi, I’m Cathy and I’m the founder of Little Miss Electrical LTD. I found my way into electrics when me and my partner who is a plasterer bought our first house which needed renovating and modernising. We stripped it back to the bare walls so there were just two big...
Featured Tradeswoman – Lauren Newman
I have always been interested in electrics, it amazed me how an invisible force was able to make everything around me move, light up and function. My first experience with electrics was having to replace a socket front without my dad noticing. I had tripped over my...
Featured Tradeswomen – Vikki Cook
I got into plumbing and heating around 2016 after years of running around with my dad on building sites in my spare time. Generally just being the person who does all the physical lifting and moving. I absolutely loved the feeling and the atmosphere of being on site....
Mental Health Awareness Month
How can better diversity and inclusion help the construction and maintenance industries improve the mental health of everyone in them?
Our industry hangs in the balance.
What would a balanced industry even look like? In trades right now the proportion of women is around 6% where we’re well represented, such as in painting and decorating and around 1% in plumbing, with gas engineers and electricians far less - gas engineers around 500...
Featured Tradeswomen – Woman at Work
Julia - I started my own painting and decorating business in 2013, when my youngest child started school. I painted most rooms in our own house, and my husband, semi-jokingly said I should go and do it for someone else or else I would just do ours all over again!So I...
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