Disrupted times offer great opportunity, provided you are prepared and bold enough to drive the agenda. This is why we have embraced an ambitious and exciting vision – a thriving industry delivering amazing on water experiences for everyone. It summarises our realistic ambition for British Marine’s members out to 2025 and beyond.
To drive that vision into reality, British Marine has created its first National Agenda. It is an achievable and measurable plan that has been carefully crafted by our executive team in close collaboration
with elected member representatives.
We promise that:
- The National Agenda is an assertive plan that is being implemented now and against which we will regularly measure, report and update.
- British Marine’s deep skills and resources will be directed towards areas of most impact for members.
- Members will be placed front and centre of all British Marine activities with service that is personalised to needs, easily accessible and always available.
- Quality will pervade everything we do, to provide the best membership experiences and influence the raising of standards across the whole industry.
Summarising, our Mission is to deliver outstanding services, representation and products to promote the sustainable success of our members.
This National Agenda is a clear declaration of British Marine’s determination to play a significant and measurable role in supporting you, our members. I commend it to you as our pole star for a bright
future and look forward to your input and engagement in coming months.
Lesley Robinson
CEO, British Marine
Download our full National Agenda here
30 Jan 2020
General News
The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education have included the boatbuilding apprenticeship standard in the engineering and manufacturing route review – the largest review to date with 59 apprenticeships standards being looked at.
30 Jan 2020
Next week at British Marine Spring Expo, British Marine will be running a Small Commercial Seminar with the Maritime and Coastguard (MCA) to highlight major changes for the sector.
30 Jan 2020
General News
The Canal & River Trust is running elections for several posts on its National Council. British Marine is delighted to see a number of its members standing to represent business boating and would encourage other members to vote to ensure the industry’s interests are well represented on the Council.
30 Jan 2020
General News
Two new standards have just been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, which now means that they can be used to give a presumption of conformity with the Recreational Craft Directive (RCD).
30 Jan 2020
General News
The Sun newspaper is looking for apprenticeship vacancies to promote in their National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) feature next week. These vacancies must be live in February.
30 Jan 2020
General News
Members following the Brexit negotiations will know that the UK is set to leave the European Union (EU) this Friday 31 January 2020. The UK will then enter a transition period in which it will continue to participate as if it were a member state. During this time, our relationship with the EU will remain the same as it is now and continue along the lines of business as usual.
30 Jan 2020
British Marine was sad to hear the of John Pleace who sadly passed away on the 24 January after a short illness.
30 Jan 2020
The last speaker for the hotly anticipated Superyacht UK Technical Seminar can now be revealed as CSS Platinum with a talk on cybersecurity and how this affects the yachts International Safety Management (ISM) code.
30 Jan 2020
General News
A third-generation mariner has been appointed Chair of the Maritime Skills Commission. The appointment was announced by Maritime Minister, Nusrat Ghani, during her visit to the Port of Tilbury last week.
30 Jan 2020
General News
The Industry Specialist Consulting group (ISCG) recently created and published the Industry Best Practise (IBP) guidance, the IBP has been created in collaboration with seven UK water undertakers, along with other stakeholders, to provide guidance to marine water users who operate in regions covered by the water undertakers listed in the IBP guidance.