CONTINUAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD)
Crown Paints has launched ‘Colour in Design’, a suite of Continual Professional Development (CPD) courses which aim to advance knowledge and skills around how colour can be used. There are 8 courses overall covering a range of topics including Colour Application, and Light & Lighting. The CPDs are suitable for a professional wanting to improve their skills, and as with all of the Crown courses, they’re all delivered in a bite-sized and engaging format.
https://www.crownpaintsprofessional.com/knowledge-hub/training-skills/cpd
PERSONAL GUARANTEE INSURANCE
Following the launch of the Help to Build scheme, self-builders who have secured a personal guarantee backed loan for their self-build project, whether through the scheme or funded independently, can now protect their personal assets from risk. Purbeck Personal Guarantee Insurance (PGI) now offers Property PGI for self-builders. Property Personal Guarantee Insurance is available for Development Loans and Bridging Loans as well as Commercial Property Mortgages.
APP
Currently serving over 18,000 tradespeople in eight countries, the Fergus mission is to provide trade businesses with access to software tools to organise their business without burying them in admin. The Fergus app also ensures healthy finances and that you get paid quickly; all aspects of a job that need to be done to get paid are in the workflow and, as the only system tracking labour and materials back to the job in real time, Fergus ensures each job is profitable.
ONLINE PLATFORM
Propert industry veterans have developed Rezigo, a secure, UX-forward online platform which simplifies the process of finding, booking, managing and paying available, local tradespeople to a few clicks. Tradespeople can use the platform to easily quote for local jobs that suit them, and manage the project, invoice and get paid securely. Customers can upload photos to give a good idea of the project, preventing time wasted on quoting for unsuitable jobs.
FREE MENTORING SERVICE
A free mentoring service has launched to support businesses with implementing digital processes and techniques by offering technical advice and guidance. Digital Construction Skills (DCS) is funded by CITB to help construction companies develop the skills they need to drive digital transformation in their business. With a strong focus on SME business owners, DCS aims to demystify digital tools and help businesses choose the best ones to align with their goals.
TRAINING
There has been a surge in tradespeople looking to upskill in heat pumps follows government plans to subsidise replacement of gas boilers. Logic4training, the UK’s leading building services training provider, experienced a huge 6,700% year-on-year increase in online enquiries for heat pump training courses on the day that the government made the Heat and Building Strategy announcement. There was also a 433% week-on-week increase in traffic to their Heat Pump Training Courses web page.
https://www.logic4training.co.uk/
