New route to TrustMark for reputable tradesmen

TrustMark has approved FENSA and Exor Management Services as scheme operators to help sign up firms to the award-winning, Government-backed initiative.

TrustMark has approved FENSA and Exor Management Services as scheme operators to help sign up firms to the award-winning, Government-backed initiative which helps householders find trustworthy tradespeople to make improvement and repairs inside and outside the home.

TrustMark now has 24 registered scheme operators and close to 14,000 approved firms, but FENSA has the potential to be the largest approval body within the scheme with scope to add another 9,300 firms to the register of reputable tradesmen over coming months.

Set up by the Glass and Glazing Federation (GGF) and other industry bodies in 2002, FENSA is the original Competent Persons scheme which enables companies that install replacement windows and doors to self certify compliance under Approved Documents L and N of the Building Regulations.

The FENSA standard is widely recognised as the industry standard for self certification schemes.

An independent report commissioned by the department for Communities and Local Government found FENSA to be the most successful of all competent schemes to date in the UK, across all industries.

Graham Hinett, Chief Executive of FENSA said: "Becoming an approved scheme operator for TrustMark is strategically important for FENSA, offering our registered businesses the real opportunity to generate more business from homeowners who care about quality.

FENSA firms can provide householders with peace of mind because they demonstrate professionalism and integrity.

"Being TrustMark approved will help deliver a competitive advantage for the 9,300 FENSA registered businesses that are eligible to apply".

TrustMark has also approved Exor Management Services as a new scheme operator.

Exor is an independent accreditation service provider to the public sector, with over 120 local authorities and other public bodies using their products and services.

Exor can now provide access to TrustMark to any firm, big or small, from any of the 17 trades currently covered by the scheme.

More than 200 of its current suppliers will be brought into the scheme over the next few months.

Ian McKinnon, Managing Director of Exor Management Services said: "We are delighted to be approved as a scheme operator with TrustMark as we see our business as part of the solution to reduce rogue traders.

Our robust approach to accreditation and assessment of our contractors is just one example.

With our reach into the public sector we are eager to promote the take up of the TrustMark standard even further than before.".

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