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The Kitchen, Bathroom & Bedroom Specialists Association (Kbsa) has announced that Renée Mascari, CEO of the KBB NTG will be Head Judge for this year’s KBSA Designer Awards. Renée is a highly experienced kitchen designer, and runs her own design company, which also offer training courses in kitchen design. Ren has been on the judging panel since the Awards were relaunched in 2012. Also on the panel for the 1st time is David Gillett, Course Leader for the inaugural FDA course at Buckinghamshire New University where the students are half way through their 1st year. The KBSA have partnered with the University to sponsor a new award – a Kitchen Concept Award exclusively for students on this inaugural course. Other Awards include ...

KBB NTG has teamed up with Blum's The Kitchen Think to conduct a survey aimed at gauging the opinion of people working in the KBB industry regarding their opinion towards training and what their needs would be going forward. Established in 2012, The Kitchen Think aims to provide useful & engaging information to the various audiences that interact with the Kitchen Industry and hosting this survey is a further demonstration of its aims to provide a forum for interaction and knowledge for the industry as a whole. The survey simply asks 6 quick questions and responses are on an anonymous and confidential basis, requiring no email addresses or other personal details.  The on-line survey can be accessed via The Kitchen Think ...

The Furniture, Furnishings and Interiors Industry Education & Training Summit was held on the 5th February 2015 at The Furniture Makers Hall in London. The summit focused on the numerous education and training initiatives being undertaken by the various organisations in the furniture industry including The Furniture Makers, Trade Associations and Proskills and looked at ways of working better together to benefit the whole industry. As part of the summit each organisation gave an overview of their current needs as well as training and education initiatives being ...

Renée was delighted to be invited to speak at the recent BMF Branch Managers 2-Day Forum. The Light side of the Builders Merchants business is ever increasing and so is the demand for merchants to be selling kitchens and bathrooms. With this in mind, the subject of Renée’s presentation was Showroom Design for Kitchens and Bathrooms.  Other presentations throughout the day included Wet Rooms and Waterproofing Bathrooms Insulation Opportunities, Ian Pattison, Abacus Direct and Twyford Bathrooms Bricks for Builders Merchants Bathroom Energy for All , Wayne Harris. The guest speaker at the forum was Penny Mallory, World Champion Rally Driver and Motivational ...

We would like to thank everyone for their support of the KBB NTG during the year.  Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. Our offices will be closed from 1pm on Friday 19th December 2014 and will re-open at 9am on Monday 5th January ...

The iKBBI & The KBB National Training Group explore a potential collaboration on the expansion of a kitchen installation apprenticeship scheme. Renee Mascari (CEO of the KBB NTG) has worked tirelessly to co-create a kitchen installation apprenticeship with Nottinghamshire based training provider WEBS. The current scheme offers students an NVQ Level 2 qualification in installation, with a whole host of additional benefits. iKBBI founder Damian Walters said: 'We admire Renee and her efforts towards such an important and understated scheme and will do as much as we can, not only to promote the current scheme in the north, but importantly to explore national roll out opportunities'. Damian went on to say: 'Attracting, training and supporting the next generation of installers is vital to ...

The Furniture Makers’ Company not only upholds excellence, education and charitable work for past, present and future furniture makers but they are the leading voice and champion for the entire furnishings industry, from fabric to carpets, lighting to wall coverings and beyond. The video delivers a clear message about their mission.  To view the video click ...

Liam Fairley, Clive Gamlin, Dana Grossman, Roy Lyon and Peter Jones were recently presented with certificates upon competition of Magnet’s in-house Knowledge training framework that is endorsed by the KBB ...

There are many challenges for businesses in the construction industry including increased competition, shifting markets, technological and organisational change. Successful organisations have strong strategic managements, anticipate change by training or buying-in skills, enlarge their range of products and services, become more customer focused and adapt to changing markets and processes. Employing an Apprentice can help your business and CITB is here to make recruitment as easy as possible, ensuring you employ the right apprentice for your business. CITB provides the best practical support to make everything as simple as possible for employers and apprentices. We can help with costs, advice and assistance by assigning one of our advisers to make your experience a successful one. Finding the right apprentice is simple. Step 1 There ...

We are delighted to announce that the Kitchen, Bedroom, Bathroom National Training Group (KBBNTG) have recently launched a brand new website. The new website has a fresh and contemporary look and has been designed to work on mobile devices, making it easier to use when visitors are out and about. The site is full of useful and interesting information regarding our council members, available qualifications, training courses, membership and links to other industry associations, magazines, events and exhibitions plus lots, lots more. Renee Mascari CEO says “We are thrilled with the new website. It offers visitors an abundance of industry specific information that is easy to find and is a great resource for those working in the sector.” She continues “We ...

NTG CEO Renée Mascari was honoured to be invited to deliver the inaugural after dinner speech at the launch of Buckinghamshire New University’s Foundation Degree in Kitchen Design at Missenden Abbey Conference Centre in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, on Friday 19 September. This degree course has been a long time in the making and credit must go to the efforts of the academic development team at Bucks New University and industry experts who helped to develop the course modules, and along with the NTG, industry supporters that have contributed both time and bursaries to ensure that this much-needed course gets up and running. The course started with the first of three residential weekends at Missenden Abbey on Friday 19 September. Developed in ...

A number of major industry suppliers are taking advantage of an opportunity to train their staff and, at the same time, make contributions to their chosen charities. In a new initiative to be rolled out throughout 2015, Graham Hayden Training will run one day Sales and Customer Care courses for members of staff and, instead of paying a course fee, the companies will make a donation to charity. These award winning courses have been attended by over 1800 KBB delegates over the last eight years and full details of the content can be found on the website www.grahamhaydentraining.com To date, the companies that have signed up to this initiative are; Whirlpool UK, Blum, ArtiCAD and Burda International UK. Commenting on the idea, Graham ...