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
13 Feb 2020
Last week British Marine held a number of talks and seminars sessions at the British Marine Spring Expo and those speakers that took part have generously agreed to share their presentations for all members to access.
13 Feb 2020
Member news
The Magenta Project a collective of passionate sailors committed to creating equal access and opportunities for women announces it has joined forces with British Marine member, Sunsail, to launch an innovative sailing initiative.
13 Feb 2020
General News
Following the success of the British Marine Spring Expo, British Marine is delighted to announce the launch of the British Marine Autumn Expo which will take place on Tuesday 10 November in Birmingham.
13 Feb 2020
General News
Biofouling and invasion of non-native species has been a priority for the environmental authorities as there has been an increase in the number and type of species arriving and spreading across the UK.
13 Feb 2020
General News
British Marine would like to make members aware that the deadline for customs training grants has been extended until 31 January 2021, Government funding of £7.5 million remains from the original budget and must be consumed.
13 Feb 2020
General News
The Government has recently launched two consultations. The first looks at Future Tariff Schedules and the second looks at the potential creation of up to 10 Freeports across the UK.
13 Feb 2020
General News
Throughout 2020, Maritime UK will be taking part in skills events throughout the country to promote careers in the marine industry. As British Marine is a member of Maritime UK, British Marine members have the opportunity to be a part of the Maritime UK stand that will be at each event.
13 Feb 2020
Member news
British Marine member, Island Global Yachting (IGY Marinas), is excited to announce the continued expansion of its global marina destination network with the addition of St. Katharine Docks Marina (SKD Marina), London, England.
13 Feb 2020
The British Marine Spring Expo 2020 drew to a close last week (5 February) having invigorated the UK industry with an ambitious vision of the future and delivered the valuable platform for learning, networking and business to kick start it into reality.
11 Feb 2020
New figures released today by British Marine (the trade association for the leisure, superyacht and small commercial marine industry) reveal how the marine sector’s export growth has outperformed the national average since the previous year. The sector’s export growth has outpaced the national average, hitting the £1.5bn mark in 2018/19.