2 July 2025 6pm – 10pm Community The Electric Barge

Overview

Join the IWFM Rising FMs Network for our exciting summer electric barge social! Enjoy a scenic round trip from Paddington to Camden, perfect for individuals new to the workplace and facilities management industry. This event is designed to make you feel welcome and offers a fantastic opportunity to network with your peers. 

Please arrive by 6pm, as the barge will depart promptly at 6.30pm for a 3.5 hour journey.

The Rising FMs Committee members will be at Union Bar Paddington from 4.30pm so you are welcome to join us there before heading over to the barge.

Ticket prices:

  • £20 + VAT

The ticket cost includes refreshments. There is also a bar on-board.

We will be collecting cash donations on board for a raffle to raise money for the Deborah Rowland Scholarship though the IWFM Foundation and the IWFM Chair’s charity Mind.

Sponsors

Assurity Consulting

Assurity Consulting is the UK’s leading independent accredited consultancy specialising in workplace health, safety, and environmental solutions. We were inaugural members of the IWFM (then the BIFM) and have supported the institution since it began in 1993. Our customers reap the benefit of our more than 38 years’ experience of delivering our services across a range of different sectors – helping them manage their compliance responsibilities as effectively as possible. 

Our technical expertise and award-winning customer service have led customers from the UK and internationally to choose us as their trusted partner to help them manage their workplace compliance. As an independent consultancy, with no remedial products or services to promote, our impartial advice makes sure that compliance management budgets are used to best effect. Our in-depth technical expertise is a quality that really sets us apart. Our team includes certified specialists in disciplines including occupational safety and health (NEBOSH, OSHCR), access audits (NRAC), asbestos (P402), plus experts in areas such as asbestos, environment, fire, food safety, health and safety, Legionella, noise and indoor environment quality (air, water, comfort), making us the preferred compliance management partner of so many organisations.

Our customers can rest assured that we are audited to British and International Standards for our processes and procedures. We hold ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 for the provision of auditing and consultancy services for the built environment. We are also certificated to ISO 45001 for occupational health and safety management best practice. We also have specific Primary Authority relationships with two leading local authorities.

To give our customers the added security they need, our company is accredited by UKAS to ISO 17025 for the sampling and analysis of air and water samples in our own laboratory. We are also accredited as an inspection body by UKAS to ISO 17020 for our Legionella risk assessments to BS 8580 standard. We are recognised by BAFE, for being fully compliant with the requirements of SP205, a life safety fire risk assessment scheme, that provides independent evidence of our competency to deliver fire risk assessments.

Our consultants – all direct employees – guide our customers through our findings and provide all the help, advice and information they need, giving reassurance that they are in control of their compliance.

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