The fire door training industry has grown rapidly in recent years and UK Fire Door Training has emerged as the country’s largest fire door training provider. There are now dozens of companies providing some sort of fire door training. Whilst there is some difference in quality across providers, many of these companies are delivering useful content. But when it comes to scale, infrastructure, and reach, UK Fire Door Training stands apart.
UK Fire Door Training has become the largest fire door training provider. This is based on key metrics such as number of learners, practical courses delivered, and the ability to deliver training across all regions of the UK.
This is all based on transparent figures and verified activity both online and in practical training.
This article sets out the facts, how UK Fire Door Training reached this position, what we do differently that sets us apart from other providers, and why organisations across the UK from housing associations to principal contractors to sole traders – choose UK Fire Door Training.
Course Volumes and Practical Delivery
Since UK Fire Door Training was launched in 2021, we have trained over 10,000 individuals across the UK. On average, UK Fire Door Training teaches 3,000 learners per year who complete training through our world-class LMS or in our in-person sessions. Around 1,200 learners each year are practical learners.
These figures were recently confirmed in an article by the Express & Star, which described UK Fire Door Training as “the UK’s largest provider of practical fire door training” and noted that the business delivers “more than 80 practical sessions each month”, with demand growing year on year.
The vast majority of these learners complete one of three key programmes:
- Fire Door Inspection Course
Designed to help learners identify compliant and non-compliant fire doors in real settings, covering gaps, hardware, intumescent seals, and signage. - Fire Door Installation Course
Focused on correct frame installation, ironmongery placement, fixing methods, tolerances, and adjustment. Essential for contractors and installers. - Fire Door Maintenance Course
Focused on repairing fire doors and bringing them back up to a suitable level of performance.
Many learners are now also choosing to complete our Combination Course, which is a bundle of all three of the above courses for a discounted rate.
The focus on practical delivery is deliberate. Proving that you are a competent person is more than just completing theoretical work. You need to ensure that you have sufficient skills, knowledge, experience, and behaviours (SKEB). Hands-on understanding under expert tutors mirroring real-world environments is a much better way of learning. There are many providers in the fire door training sector that are focused on CPD, sending USBs in the post with a lot of theory work but not enough hands-on training.
UK Fire Door Training has now emerged as the largest provider of both practical and online learning. But in the last 24 months, there has been a shift toward becoming the largest provider of practical training.
Verified Public Trust: Over 650 Reviews
Training providers in the fire door training industry are making claims about quality. However, only UK Fire Door Training can back this up with raw numbers.
As of June 2025, UK Fire Door Training has received over 650 independently verified reviews on Trustpilot. UK Fire Door Training holds an average rating of 4.9 out of 5. The average rating for a training provider in the UK on Trustpilot is 3.0.
UK Fire Door Training actively encourages learners to write reviews because we are keen to show transparency and integrity toward our customers.
The reviews are not generic testimonials. They are written by genuine customers such as carpenters, joiners, facilities managers, and site staff across the country. Common themes that consistently pop up are:
- Instructors being experts and supportive throughout learning
- Simplicity of booking and certification
- Highly relevant, useful, and engaging course content
- Usefulness of practical training workshops
Smaller, regional fire door training providers may have 10–20 reviews at most. But no company has the volume of verified feedback that UK Fire Door Training has. This reflects the true scale of our operations and the high level of customer service we provide. Other companies in the industry are claiming to be the largest fire door training provider, but they are unable to back that up with raw facts and figures.
National Delivery: A Genuine UK-Wide Provider
A common misconception in the fire door training industry is that most providers offer national delivery. In reality, most training centres are regional operators, only delivering training from a singular base and serving their immediate area.
UK Fire Door Training is the only provider with the capacity and infrastructure to offer consistent training delivery across all of the UK.
The Mobile Training Rig
A core part of that delivery capability is our mobile fire door training rig. This custom-built, innovative aluminium training tool is designed to replicate real-world scenarios including:
- Misaligned frames
- Faulty ironmongery
- Improper gaps and tolerances
- Damaged or missing seals
The rig is transportable and can be deployed anywhere in the UK—from London to Glasgow, from Swansea to Norwich. We have delivered practical training in:
- Construction sites
- Community centres
- Private training venues
- Client premises in remote rural settings
This level of reach is unmatched in the UK fire door training sector. Other providers may offer occasional off-site visits, but none operate a full-time, mobile, practical training system as part of their standard model.
Centralised LMS, Booking and Certification Systems
Supporting the national delivery model is our digital infrastructure, which allows learners to:
- Book courses online
- Access pre-course materials
- Complete knowledge checks
- Download digital certificates
This LMS (Learning Management System) is used not just for online courses, but also as a back-end for all practical training. Every learner—whether practical or digital—is tracked, supported, and certified through the same system.
That allows us to deliver training at scale without losing visibility or quality.
Industry Leadership Through Consistency
UK Fire Door Training’s growth has not come through advertising or using PR firms. It has come through consistency.
Every practical session is delivered by qualified trainers who have real industry experience. They are all fully qualified carpenters and joiners. They have worked on site fitting, installing, maintaining, and inspecting fire doors. They bring this experience directly into the classroom.
Our course content is updated regularly in line with:
- Regulation 10 of the Fire Safety (England) Regulations
- Guidance from the Fire Sector Federation
- Updates to laws and regulations such as the Building Safety Act
We work closely with industry experts to ensure that the course content is constantly up to date and fit for purpose. Other providers let their content become outdated and do not provide learners with new training materials.
Why Size Matters in Fire Door Training
Some will ask, does the size of the company really matter?
Yes, it does. For three key reasons:
- Access and flexibility. Clients need to be able to book training that fits their location, schedule, and staff availability.
- Consistency across sites. Principal contractors and housing associations operating across the UK can ensure that the same standard of training is taking place in every region.
- Stability and scalability. We have the financial and operational resilience to respond quickly to legal and regulatory changes. Also, only UK Fire Door Training can truly respond to surges in demand or large-scale projects.
What UK Fire Door Training does well is combine this truly national scale with world-class customer service, as backed up by our Trustpilot reviews. We never compromise on the quality of our courses and our customers always come first.
What’s Next For UK Fire Door Training?
We don’t treat size as an endpoint. We’re continuing to build.
In the next 12 months, UK Fire Door Training is investing in:
- Complete rebuild of the LMS to allow learners to prove that they are competent by mapping them against industry recognised skills matrices
- Expansion into masterclass training
- Regulated qualifications through FireQual, CPD and other awarding bodies
- Additional course offerings for housing compliance teams and main contractors
Our aim is not just to remain the largest, but to stay relevant, rigorous, and responsive to the changing nature of the industry.
Concluding Thoughts
UK Fire Door Training has become the UK’s largest fire door training provider through a combination of high-quality practical delivery, world-class infrastructure, first-class customer service, and scale.
With over 10,000 people now trained, 3,000 learners per year, 1,200 of those completing practical training sessions annually, and more Trustpilot reviews than any competitor, the numbers speak for themselves.
UK Fire Door Training is the only truly national fire door training provider with the ability to bring fire door training to any part of the UK.
The goal at UK Fire Door Training has always been to deliver excellent training at a reasonable price, make people competent, and provide that training to anyone that needs it, wherever they are.
That is what being the largest actually means.
Book yourself on to one of our courses today:
👉 https://ukfiredoortraining.com/browse-our-courses/
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