Trade Memberships

Bagnalls was the first national painting contractor to fully adopt the Reset Certification Scheme across its business. We know that our customers rely on us to provide competent site teams and the Reset scheme ensures that customers can verify each individual and view original certificates any time of the day or night. Reset allows us to meet the requirements of the CDM Regulations and other Health & Safety legislation by demonstrating the competence, skills and experience of our operative to deliver works safely.

Bagnalls is a proud member of The 5% Club, an industry-led campaign that aims to support the careers of young people across the country. The club was initially launched in 2013 and has received widespread support from a wide range of companies, intent on investing in the future talent of the UK.

Our commitment to The 5% Club means that we have achieved a Gold Award for our positive approach to the recruitment of apprentices, sponsored students and graduates on formal programmes. A minimum of 5% of our total workforce must meet The 5% Club requirements and we are already exceeding this figure with more than 9.6% of our workforce meeting the stated criteria.

Following an external “Employer Audit” by The 5% Club, we are pleased to announce that Bagnalls has met the criteria to be awarded a Gold Award for 2021/22. The Gold award clearly demonstrates our proven commitment to investing in our workforce through a broad range of “earn & learn” programmes.

Bagnalls has been a long-standing and active member of the PDA. Generations of senior managers in the company have contributed to committees and working parties in the PDA, dealing with industry drivers including, apprenticeships, training, safety and environment.

The high level of service offered to our customers has been consistently recognised in the annual trophy and apprentice awards of the PDA.

We are still very proud of being the inaugural winners in 2005 of the PDA “Special Award for Excellence” for our dedication to training, innovation and customer focus.

Bagnalls is an active member of the CRA supporting the CRA’s commitment to promoting and developing the practice of concrete repairs, advancing education and technical training.

Bagnalls is a member of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Bagnalls uses its membership to further pursue safe working practices in the workplace.Bagnalls has now been awarded a number of successive Gold RoSPA awards, for our ongoing commitment to occupational health and safety.

Bagnalls is a member of the Institute of Corrosion to ensure we remain abreast of all the key issues affecting corrosion management practice and the advancement of cost effective corrosion control measures.

We employ people with ICORR painting inspection training and ICATS – ‘Industrial Coating Applicator Training Scheme’. These highly trained industrial painters have been certified against the high standards required by organisations such as the Highways Agency, National Grid and Network Rail.

Bagnalls is a registered member of the highly acclaimed National Apprenticeship scheme and as such we are proud to be able to display the Apprenticeship Employer’s badge. Our Group’s Painting Academy was established in 2004 and has been vital in supplementing the site and college based training given to our apprentices. Our ongoing commitment to apprenticeships has resulted in a large number of our directly employed operatives being apprentice trained and qualified.

Bagnalls is proud to be a fifth generation, family run business. The company’s values align very closely with those of Family Business United and so we became members in 2014, to support the contribution family businesses make to the UK economy. FBU celebrate the investment that company’s make in people development, succession planning and delivering high levels of customer service.

Bagnalls were delighted when Troy Sanderson, was the winning candidate of the “FBU Apprentice of the Year awards”, in 2015, surpassed only by Adam Knowles, becoming the ”FBU Apprentice of the Year, 2018”. Testament to the company’s commitment to people, especially apprentices. Bagnalls were also recognised in 2016 when we were crowned “Yorkshire Regional Family Business of the Year, 2016” and also “FBU UK Supreme Champions, 2016”.