Partners of the Plumber Awards
The Plumber Awards partners are: CT1, Kingsbridge Insurance, Polypipe Building Products, Powered Now, Refresh, CIPHE and media partner Installer. Each one of our partners play an integral role, and help us to continue providing credible awards to hard-working plumbers in the UK by providing sponsorship money to ensure the awards remain free-of-charge to enter, yet there’s a robust judging process behind the scenes to ensure we really do find the best-of-the-best. Thank you to all our sponsors and partners.
Click on the links below to learn more about their individual products and service.
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CT1 is the UK’s number one sealant and adhesive. Made in Britain, it is a high-performance, non-toxic product that doesn’t contain any solvents. It bonds to a wide range of materials including metals, glass, mirrors, wood and concrete, and works well in wet or dry conditions, is odourless, and has excellent resistance to chemicals and UV. CT1 is the only product on the market with TRIBRID ® Technology, making it 360% stronger than a traditional Hybrid Polymer.
Whether it’s sealing up a bathtub or fixing an annoying leak, CT1 has been a key component of a tradesperson’s toolkit for the past two decades. Often copied but never equalled, there’s only one CT1.
You can find out more about the product range here: https://www.ct1.com/
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Kingsbridge is one of the UK’s leading providers of specialist business insurance to contractors, freelancers, sole traders and the UK’s self-employed workforce.
Kingsbridge’s Trades insurance combines all the key basics like Public Liability and Employer’s Liability – as well as optional covers like Hired in and Owned Plant, Contracts Works, and Professional Indemnity – into one easy, affordable package for ultimate peace of mind.
Kingsbridge believes in doing right by each customer and being by their side every step of their business journey. Its UK-based team of in-house brokers, claims managers, and customer agents are accessible, approachable and responsive, ready to help tradespeople with their industry-leading expertise, experience and insight.
Find out more here: www.kingsbridge.co.uk/plumber-awards
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Polypipe Building Products is the UK’s leading manufacturer of plastic piping systems for the residential market. We design, develop and manufacture over 20,000 product lines which are stocked in plumbers and builders’ merchants nationally. Our products include a comprehensive range of above ground drainage products, including traps, pan connectors and waste pipe and fittings. We also offer a wide variety of rainwater systems for below ground drainage, four different plastic plumbing fittings ranges and compatible polybutylene pipes, as well as underfloor heating solutions.
All of which means that with Polypipe Building Products, every job is covered.You can find out more about Polypipe Building Products at https://www.polypipe.com/our-solutions.
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The UK’s best job management software for the trade, Powered Now, is providing vital support to The Plumber Awards during its inaugural year. Representative of its ethos, which is to support plumbers to allow them to do what they do best – provide top class service that genuinely improve the quality of customer’s lives – Powered Now will play a central role in the awards from the very start.
Powered Now is an app that has been a game changer for thousands of plumbers, sole traders and business owners, who host a lot of information in one place; from receipts, customer invoices and purchase invoices through to an overall picture of the bank with just one click, the software integrates with Xero. In addition, Powered Now’s features include a workflow management function, a record of compliance certificates that are easy to find and upload, quoting software and client-facing areas too. It’s an all-in-one support for plumbers, with an accessible UK-based award-winning customer support team available to speak to over the phone. It will become a plumber’s best friend when the new Making Tax Digital legislation comes into force in April 2026, making the process as quick and easy each quarter as possible.
You can find out more at www.powerednow.com/refresh
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The Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE) was founded in 1906 and is the professional body for the UK plumbing and heating industry. It’s 7,500-strong membership is made up of practitioners, consultants, specifiers, designers, public health engineers, lecturers, trainers and trainees, including over 150 manufacturers and distributors.
The CIPHE is a member of the Construction Industry Council – www.cic.org.uk – and a licensed member of the Engineering Council (UK) – www.engc.org.uk
You can find out more about the CIPHE at www.ciphe.org.uk. Stay up to date with CIPHE by following them on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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Over three packed days more than 30,000 industry professionals and over 800 exhibitors will come together at InstallerSHOW, which takes place at Birmingham NEC from 23-26th June 2026. It’s known as a real community event for plumbers and the trades – one of the only times in the year that so many will get together.
Make sure you attend on the middle day too as that’s when the winners of The Plumber Awards 2026 will be announced – right in the middle of the exhibition on InstallerPLAZA! Next year the show will also host The World Plumbing Conference, an unmissable gathering of global plumbing leaders, innovators and industry experts. To follow all the news from the show, visit the dedicated website www.installershow.com
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Refresh is an award-winning PR and communications agency that works with organisations to reach and influence their key audiences in the places where it matters the most.
For over 15 years, it has specialised in PR to the trades and has a direct line in to thousands of plumbers, heating installers and other tradespeople. Its relationships within this community means it is consistently trusted to deliver campaigns with real impact and measurable results.
Refresh’s services include strategic planning, creative campaigns, content creation, social media, influencer management, events and media relations.
Find out more at refreshpr.co.uk.