The 2020 Women Installers Together conference will take place on 1 July in a new venue – The Great Hall at London Met University.

Already confirmed speakers for the event are: Hattie Hasan MBE, founder of the event, and Bonita Norris, the youngest woman to ever climb Everest.

WIT 2020 is run by Stopcocks Women Plumbers with event partners Polypipe Trade. Monument Tools are sponsoring the venue and food for all delegates, and Graham Plumbers’ Merchant, Vaillant, and Fernox will also be supporting the event.

Hattie Hasan said: “We’re really delighted the event is growing every year. With the average age of plumbers 57.5, the workforce is going to reduce drastically in a few years. Women are very keen to come into it. This needs to be encouraged by all sectors of the industry by showing them how welcome they are. We sincerely believe that the changes that will attract more women will also attract more men into heating and plumbing; that’s good for everyone.”

The event was launched to celebrate the women working on the tools within the plumbing and heating industry and continues to champion them and their advocates.

Last year all delegates enthusiastically participated in roundtable discussions which revealed some of the main factors discouraging girls and women from joining the industry, both within it and externally.

“Some stories were really quite disturbing,” said Mica May, Stopcocks Development Director and organiser of the event. “The determination of the women plumbers and engineers and what many of them have overcome is genuinely inspirational and most of them just brush it off. It’s brilliant to run a day we can all meet and have a great time”.

To register your interest in the event, please click here.