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Here’s the latest news from the chimney sweeping world:

Working Procedures – coronavirus guidance

11 October, 2020

Sweeps working procedures The guidance here was issued to Guild members at the start of the crisis in March and again in early May as sweeps...

Sweep Stuff magazine – May 2020

05 October, 2020

All the latest news from the sweeping world’s no. 1 magazine – Sweep Stuff May 2020

A new chapter – The Federation of British Chimney Sweeps

03 June, 2020

Over the last year or so the main UK chimney sweep trade associations have engaged in discussions on industry governance, formal qualification and training. As you’d expect, the Guild were involved from the very start, working hard with colleagues...

Online Refresher Course

Another first – 19th June 2020 This course is open to any sweep and is for experienced sweeps only. We have re-structured the 5 year Refresher course to enable candidates to attend online. It’s a one day live interactive...

Dinner, raffles and more prizes

02 June, 2020

Lawson Wight reflects on a great finale to a great weekend. What do chimney sweeps do when they are not working? Well once a year many of them get together, spend a lot of money on tools, food and...