Cleanzine: your weekly cleaning and hygiene industry newsletter 18th April 2024 Issue no. 1110
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Manchester Cleaning Show to focus on future of cleaning and wider FM issues
The full programme for the second Manchester Cleaning Show, the northern edition of The Cleaning Show which now alternates annually with Excel in London, has been announced.
The two-day event - being hosted at Event City in Manchester on April 11th and 12th 2018 -will be focused on the future of UK cleaning. The FM sector will also be well represented, with The British Institute of Facilities Management, exhibiting.
Already set to be bigger than the first Manchester event in terms of floorspace, visitor registration figures also suggest that the show will be busier than it was in 2016 with more than 1,000 people having already booked an entry ticket which are available free of charge.
The Manchester Cleaning Show will commence with an opening address from Stan Atkins, chair of the British Cleaning Council. Stan will be outlining the key issues which he believes are some of the most pressing for both the cleaning and wider FM industries. These include raising professional standards, improving skills provision, the need for more robust and fair procurement practices and the impending recruitment crisis facing the industry. Stan will also highlight the recent in-depth research report which was undertaken by the BCC to get a clearer picture of the size, scale and complexity of the UK cleaning market.
This will be followed by a kick-off session called Preparing for the Future, which will be led by the authors of the BCC's report, Firedog Research. Firedog analysts will be presenting the headline findings from the research, and sharing some key insights and conclusions about what the data means for the cleaning sector.
This overarching snapshot of where the cleaning sector is, and where it is potentially heading, will then be followed by a series of themed sessions from a diverse range of speakers and organisations...
Health & Safety will be very high on the agenda, with a presentation from the Federation of Window Cleaners about the risks of working at height, together with a series of workshops facilitated by the HSE.
Staffing, recruitment and employee wellbeing are set to be other key topics, with presentations from The British Association of Cleaning in Higher Education, The British Institute of Cleaning Science and CERATA all set to be linked to the different issues around these topics.
The potential impact of Brexit on employment will also be discussed by Bespoke Cleaning Solutions, while the consequences of the UK leaving Europe from a more commercial perspective will be explored by contract cleaning firm Cleanology.
Doing better business and increasing productivity, are other areas set to be discussed through the show's speaker programme.
SmartTask will be examining the issue of improved efficiency, while experts from the worlds of sales, marketing and PR will be demonstrating how digital channels and integrated communications can boost customer engagement and drive new business.
In the exhibition area, leading brands and manufacturers will be demonstrating their newest products.
Nilfisk, Karcher and Killis will all be promoting the latest advances in their services and equipment, as will firms such as Floorbrite, Bunzl, SmartTask, Host, Duplex, Greyland and Prochem Europe. Dennis Rawlins, Sebo, Vaclensa, Telelog, Templa and UhUb will also be exhibiting, alongside niche suppliers including Osprey Deepclean, RPC, Arrow County Supplies, Biovation, GermXit, Morclean and Cromwell Polythene.
In addition, Jangro has confirmed that it will be bringing its popular double decker bus to Manchester, which was debuted at The Cleaning Show in London last year.
Suppliers to niche sectors such as healthcare, retail and leisure, transport, public buildings and window cleaning will also be well represented.
Trade and membership associations will also be in attendance including the British Institute of Cleaning Science, British Pest Control Association, Domestic Cleaning Alliance, Association of Healthcare Cleaning Professionals, British Toilet Association, Cleaning & Hygiene Suppliers Association, Waste Management Industry Training and Advisory Board (UK) and Association of Building Cleaning Service Providers.
The ABCD will also using the event to announce its public sector Cleaning Team of the Year Award, sponsored Denis Rawlins, which was won last year by Rochdale Council.
Another major trade association, The Federation of Window Cleaners, will once again be hosting the annual Window Cleaning Challenge, where the fastest entrants get the chance to win £250.
15th February 2018