UK Fire Door Training Joins Aston Villa Foundation Community Partnership to Support Local Communities
UK Fire Door Training has joined the Aston Villa Foundation Community Partnership as an official Foundation Community Partner, delivered by Eleven Sports Media in collaboration with the Aston Villa Foundation. For us, this is a values-led decision. The Aston Villa...
New White Paper: State of Fire Door Competence 2026
We've just published our most comprehensive research into the fire door sector to date, and the findings demand attention. Based on a national survey of 126 fire door practitioners conducted this month, the results reveal a sector that has learned the language of...
Can You Inspect Fire Doors After Completing a Fire Door Inspection Course?
The short answer is: yes. If you complete our Fire Door Inspection Course, which is a FireQual Recognised Programme, you can inspect fire doors in the UK. That is exactly what this type of course is designed to support. As the largest provider of fire door inspection...
The Competence Pyramid: What Competence Actually Looks Like in Fire Safety
Since the introduction of the Building Safety Act, competence is no longer a loose professional expectation. It is a requirement that must be defined, evidenced and sustained. Yet across construction and fire safety, competence is still spoken about in generalities...
The ‘Third-Party Accreditation’ Ambiguity: Clarifying Terminology for the Golden Thread
The intention of the Building Safety Act was to end ambiguity. The Golden Thread of Information is central to that. It is meant to be a defensible, audited chain of evidence demonstrating that those undertaking safety-critical tasks are competent, qualified and...
What is a FireQual Recognised Programme?
FireQual Recognised Programmes are structured courses that have been independently reviewed by FireQual and judged to be appropriate training within the fire safety industry. At UK Fire Door Training, we took the decision to have our courses recognised because we...
The state of fire safety competence in 2025: skills, knowledge, and the industry’s competency gap
Following the devastating Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people back in 2017, building safety has come under growing scrutiny. And rightly so. Findings from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry showed that the tragedy was the result of systemic failures. Many of the deaths...
Fire Stopping Installation training: the complete guide to our FireQual-recognised programmes
The concept of fire stopping is nothing new. But the term has only really come into the mainstream in the last 10-15 years. In this blog post, we’ll look at what fire stopping is, why it matters, and what you can expect when you enrol onto our Fire Stopping...
Why UK Fire Door Training Leads the Industry: Differentiated Learning at Its Best
UK Fire Door Training isn’t just ahead of the curve, we have consistently set the bar of what high quality, cutting edge practical fire door training looks like and feels like. The fire door training landscape in the UK right now is full of generic, one size fits all...
Why Is UK Fire Door Training the Largest Fire Door Training Provider in the UK?
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...

















