Solutions, advice and practical support,  including:

• Employment documentation audit and drafting
  Advice line & on-site support
  Tribunal assistance
  On-line employment documentation
  Employment updates

• PLUS Telephone advice including from solicitors on:

• Commercial legal
• VAT
• Tax
• PAYE

• Insurance incl. employers' liability - see here for a free health check
• Discounts on floorspace at Interiors UK Show
• Design Protection (ACID)
• Energy brokerage – gas/electricity & water
• Telephones – line rental/calls/mobile phone agreements
• Trade credit insurance
• Discounts on furniture & furnishings testing through the SATRA Technology Centre
• Industry-wide pension scheme (from July 2012) 

• Your own BFM web page (with text & product pictures) & a link to your Company's web site/sales enquiries
• Aimed at Trade or Consumers
• PLUS regular UK and international sales leads

• Advice
• Overseas market reports
• Buyers and agents lists
• Trade consulate network of contacts
• Missions and Trade shows
• Exclusively British – where BFM acts as a broker for overseas sales

Much of which is exclusive to BFM:

• BFM trackers of Economic, Trade Commodity Price, Production & Consumer data
• Import and Export statistics
• State of Trade Trend Survey
• Financial Ratios & and Costs Survey
• Wages Survey
• Furniture National Labour Agreement BFM/GMB trade union

As a member you are able to use the BFM logo on your web site, letterheads, etc...The logo is a sign that you are a British Furniture Manufacturer and a member of a recognised Trade Association which has been in existence for over 60 years. The logo should help with tender applications and in the way the public views your company.

Price reports – over 150 items covered in the following areas

• Abrasives
• Board
• Container rates
• Energy
• Fibres
• Foam chemicals
• Leather
• Logs
• Metals/wire
• Packaging
• Timber& wood
• Waste

ABI Accredited Health & Safety Scheme

Opportunity to join a scheme unique to the Furniture sector:

• Accredited by the Association of British Insurers (ABI)
• ABI has issued the details of the scheme to all its members
• Tens of thousands of pounds are saved for members every year on their employers' liability insurance premium

Annual furniture fabric show with leading Belgium Mills held in March each year

 

       All participating companies pay £2,500 annually as a contribution towards the advertising campaign.

       To find out more please visit   www.greatbritishfurniture.co.uk

The BFM lobbies and advances the interests of the furniture industry directly with government and through the European Furniture Association and the All Party Parliamentary Furniture Industry Working Group of the House of Commons.