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Commercial sector to grow by 7% and regional opportunities expected to increase

Understand how your business will be impacted in 2021 and how the National Association of Shopfitters (NAS) can help The Construction Products Association (CPA) has predicted that construction output will rise 14% this year and 4.9% in 2022. The CPA’s latest scenario (Winter 2020/21) is based on a W-shaped recession and revises their previous prediction …

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CIJC Guidance on Holiday Entitlement 2021

The Construction Industry Joint Council (CIJC) has provided a briefing that gives guidance on the programme of Public/Bank holidays and annual holidays, which apply in England, Wales and Scotland until the New Year 2022. The full document can be found here.

EE Smith celebrates four decades of its apprenticeship partnership with Leicester College

Specialist interior fit-out contractor and NAS Member, EE Smith Contracts Ltd, is celebrating four decades of its apprenticeship partnership with Leicester College recruiting 15 youngsters despite Covid-19. John Richardson was among the first apprentices that EE Smith Contracts Ltd sent to the former Southfield College – which became known as Leicester College in 1999 – …

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NAS becomes a non-corporate member of TRADA

The NAS has recently become a non-corporate member of the Timber Research and Development Association (TRADA). TRADA is an international membership organisation dedicated to inspiring and informing best practice design, specification and use of wood in the built environment and related fields. They provide resources and research on a wealth of topics including technical specifications, …

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NAS member, EE Smith, embraces Government’s Cycle to Work scheme

It is pedal power all the way for environmentally-friendly staff at one of the UK’s leading specialist interior fit-out contractors in Leicester and London. Over 20 staff at EE Smith Contracts Ltd, a NAS member, have signed up to the Government’s Cycle to Work scheme since the initiative was introduced at their units on the …

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NAS welcomes two more members and launches New Enterprise membership

The NAS would like to extend a warm welcome to our two newest members, GEM Interior Contracts Ltd and JWA Shopfitting Solutions Ltd. GEM Interior Contracts is a fit-out provider based in Northern Ireland, specialising in retail, workspace and hospitality projects, large and small. Formed in 2016, the team has extensive experience in the fit-out …

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Government announces increased financial support for businesses

The UK Government has announced today (Thursday 22 October 2020) that it will increase the financial support and schemes available over the winter months to help protect businesses and support jobs whilst the Covid-19 pandemic continues. The key takeaways from the announcement by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, were: open businesses which are experiencing …

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