Associate Membership – Training Provider
Associate members are an important part of the FIS community. They provide the services that accredited members need to ensure their businesses achieve optimum performance
FIS is the trade association for the Finishes and Interiors Sector, representing a growing community of contractors, manufacturers and specialists across ceilings, steel framing systems, partitions, plastering, drylining and interior fit-out.
As a Training Provider Member, you are central to the success of this community.
Your role in delivering industry-relevant training and qualifications is critical in helping FIS members build competence, meet regulatory requirements, and demonstrate capability in an increasingly demanding and compliance-driven environment.
Membership gives you:
Connect
Connect directly with employers actively seeking sector-specific training and qualifications.
Promote
Promote your courses and services to a targeted audience across the finishes and interiors supply chain
Support
Support competence frameworks and help shape industry standards
Influence
Influence the future skills agenda within the sector
Position
Position your organisation as a trusted training partner within the industry
FIS membership isn’t just a badge — it’s your business advantage.
Supporting Skills Across the Sector
FIS works closely with Training Provider Members to:
- Identify and promote relevant training and qualification pathways
- Support members in accessing the training needed to run and grow their businesses
- Promote apprenticeships, upskilling, and lifelong learning
- Develop e-learning, best practice guidance, and training support materials
- Encourage the adoption of formal qualifications as proof of competence
- Highlight and share funding opportunities for training and development
Promote Your Services
As a Training Provider Member, you benefit from extensive industry visibility:
- Featured in the FIS Member Directory, used by contractors searching for training providers
- Opportunities for editorial coverage in SpecFinish magazine (reach of 30,000+)
- Promotion through FIS communications, events, and campaigns
- Opportunities to sponsor and engage with sector events
- Be Part of a Connected Industry Community
FIS brings together the sector to collaborate and share best practice:
- Events, webinars, and regional forums
- Specialist working groups across key disciplines
- Access to skills-focused discussions and initiatives
- Opportunities to engage with contractors, clients, and industry leaders
- Demonstrate Quality and Credibility
FIS Membership helps you showcase your commitment to:
- High quality training and competence development
- Supporting industry standards and best practice
- Staying informed on regulation, skills policy, and sector change
- Expert Support & Industry Insight
As a member, you gain access to:
- A dedicated advisory service and technical expertise
- Guidance on training standards, competence frameworks, and industry requirements
- An extensive knowledge hub and best practice resources
- Supporting Your Growth
FIS also helps Training Providers:
- Identify funding opportunities and grants
- Access discounted services and partner offers
- Connect with businesses actively looking to invest in training
If you are delivering training and qualifications within the finishes and interiors sector, FIS provides the platform to connect, influence, and grow.
Membership criteria
Associate Members – Training Providers must:
- Provide training services relevant to companies operating in the finishes and interiors sector.
- Be financially stable.
- Be Ofsted, Ofqual and CCEA, SQA or QIW registered or approved by an Awarding Organisation OR
- Be vetted by FIS every 12 months.
- Be able to comply with the FIS Code of Code (where applicable).
Code of Conduct
On being accepted into the Association, all members agree to subscribe to and abide by the terms of the FIS Code of Conduct (where applicable to your company), which establishes a minimum standard of conduct for members in order to raise and maintain industry standards.
The FIS code of conduct requires members to:
- Conduct business in a manner that will reflect credit on the Association, the industry and themselves.
- Adopt and commit to the principles and practices laid down by FIS.
- Act with integrity towards others and exercise high standards of business practice and workmanship.
- Be committed to training its workforce.
- Ensure that they are conversant with and adhere to the relevant current British, European and International Standards and other relevant technical standards, regulations and practices.
- Ensure (in so far as they are able) that their products or systems are tested and/or comply with the recognised standards specified by the client or statutory authorities.
- Not knowingly mislead others by fact or implication as to the performance of their products or systems.
- Hold required levels of statutory and appropriate insurance.
- Operate an effective health and safety policy and have a current health and safety policy statement.
- Keep records of all RIDDOR reportable accidents and provide annual accident statistics to FIS.
- Have and implement an appropriate environmental policy statement.
- Display wherever practical the FIS Accredited Member Logo or FIS Associate Member Logo (as applicable) on its premises, website, business stationery and brochures and make this Code of Practice available for inspection.
Subscription rates
| Turnover over £100,000 | £68 per month |
| Turnover under £100,000 | £34 per month |
| Colleges/not for profit | £34 per month |
Subscriptions are annual (1 January to 31 December) and subject to VAT. They can be paid annually or by monthly direct debit.
We joined FIS to work in collaboration– to better understand the needs of the FIS market so that we can continue to develop market leading software that meets market demand. Shared values regarding improving the industry. To expand our profile within the FIS market, through the media opportunities offered by the FIS.
Trident Insurance Brokers is pleased to have been an Associate Member of FIS for many years. During this time we have been contacted by members who have found our details though the FIS website and who have entrusted us to advise on and arrange their insurances.
Having been a contractor member of both AIS and FPDC for many years I was delighted to become an Associate of both associations and then FIS when I started my fast-track ISO consultancy business for specialist contractors. This has allowed me to stay in touch with developments in the industry of relevance to the sector and also to contribute to and take part in FIS initiatives where appropriate. Given FIS’s increasing prominence this has proved invaluable.
Or contact us on 0121 707 0077 and a member of our team will be happy to provide additional information and answer any questions that you may have