A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
Established in 2004 by our Managing Director, and former Chair of the Ladder Association Gail Hounslea, we provide a wide range of working at height solutions for both business and personal use. We are a small but experienced team at the forefront of working at height safely, supplying only certified and approved products on the market, you will never find an un-certified imported product on our website. We are the preferred suppliers to a range of leading UK and European manufacturers including Youngman, Zarges, Werner, Little Giant, Klime-ezee as well as many others. If you have difficulty finding a suitable and safe product when working at height, don't hesitate to contact our team, we will work with you to design and manufacture a bespoke solution for any application.
We hope you find what you're looking for. If there is a product or brand that you can't find and you would like to see us stock it then please get in touch and let us know.
All of our products are 100% genuine. We source our stock from just a handful of trusted and established official distributors, or directly from the manufacturer. All of our stock can be traced back to origin through our supply chain and we never work with anyone where authenticity cannot be easily verified.
OUR MISSION IS TO:
- Supply our customers with safe and suitable products as well as maintaining excellent customer service.
- Create an open and inclusive environment for all our staff
- Give back to the local and wider community with volunteering opportunities and sponsorship.
OUR VALUES:
- Specialists: Our Team are specialists in bespoke access and working at height solutions. We always endeavour to offer the best solution possible whatever the customer requires.
- Inclusive: Our Team respect and appreciate each other. We are passionate about working with and supporting the wider community.
- Progressive: Our Team are encouraged to develop themselves personally and professionally. We strive to continuously improve our product offering and customer experience.
LADDER SAFETY - LADDER ASSOCIATION & THE TEST & RESEARCH CENTRE
Here at Ladderstore we are passionate about safety when working at height. We want everyone who works at height to go home safely at the end of the day. We have been staunch members of the Ladder Association for a long number of years. The Ladder association is the industry body that is home to all the vital guidance and training needed to help ensure that working at height is undertaken as safely as possible. Each member of our team has been on the Ladder Association Inspection and User training to keep up to date with safety and changing ladder practices. Our Managing Director Gail Hounslea is the former and first female chairman of the Ladder Association too. You can find some quick words from her below.
"About 10 years ago I became a member of the Ladder Association Council and was proud to become their first female Chairperson in March 2020. The Ladder Association Council is a group of manufacturers, suppliers and training companies that come together to make sure that end users are as using equipment that is as safe as possible and manufactured to a standard."
The Ladder Association & PASMA joined forces to fund a Test & Research Centre that has the capability to test working at height equipment and reduce the instances of falls from height. I am also proud to be a Trustee of the Test & Research Centre. Recently the Test & Research Centre has worked with Trading Standards to remove over 800 dangerous ladders from the supply chain making the working at height world a safer place.
Senior Leadership Team
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| Gareth Monger | Jacky Hopps | David Potter |
Careers
Our values are embedded in everything we do and our workforce promote inclusivity, progression and strive to be the specialists in our industry and our individual roles. Interested in a career with us? We aren't always hiring however if you're interested in working with us email your CV and covering letter to careers@ladderstore.com.
Benefits of working with us includes:
- Real Living Wage Employer: We are accredited as a real Living Wage employer, ensuring all employees are paid fairly and can live well. This commitment to social responsibility reflects our company's dedication to valuing and supporting its workforce, which also helps in reducing staff turnover and fostering a loyal, motivated team
- Disability Confident Employer: We are also a disability confident employer, we believe a disability should not get in the way of achieving career goals and progressing both on a personal and professional level.
- Community & Industry Engagement: We are active in our industry organisations including the Ladder Association and Pasma ensuring we are at the forefront of our customers safety. We support the No Falls Foundation and local charities Back Up North West & BLGC.
- Personal Development: We offer a wide range of personal development opportunities including apprenticeships and higher level training courses which are often funded by the company. Progression is one of our core values, we believe all those that work for Ladderstore continue to progress and enhance their skill sets.
- Flexible Working: We promote flexible working within our business, if this is either remote working or flexible working hours, we appreciate sometimes life can get in the way and try to be as flexible as possible to ensure an effective and beneficial work life balance.
- Wellbeing: Alongside a wellbeing strategy, we also provide access to resources for both physical and mental health. We have 4 mental health first aiders alongside external support and a healthcare plan.
This is just a snapshot of some of the benefits for working with our team!
Euro Diversity & Inclusion Statement
Ladderstore believes in the value of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion of the development of all staff members and working with our suppliers and customers, having regard to their abilities and aspirations.
Within Ladderstore, it is the clear intention that every reasonable step shall be taken, to ensure that any stakeholders are not discriminated against on the grounds of any protected characteristics – age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
We also make sure there is clear right to expect reasonable protection from aggression, bullying, violence or harassment by any other member of staff, irrespective of their seniority, or by clients.
As a provider of services to the public, Ladderstore carries out our services with regards to the general duty to advance equality and opportunity. We have due regard to eliminating discrimination, harassment, victimisation, and any other conduct prohibited by the Equality Act 2010 and fostering good relations between persons who share a relevant protected characteristic, and persons who do not share it, which involves having due regard to the need to tackle prejudice and promote understanding.
Ladderstore wholeheartedly supports the principles of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and aims to ensure that staff, clients, business partners and contractors are not unfairly discriminated against, and is committed to equality in respect of protected characteristics, or any other specific factors which could result in unjustifiable discrimination. Ethically and morally, anti-discriminatory practices should be embraced, and we have a Corporate and social responsibility to uphold them. We also have a legal responsibility not to discriminate, to prevent staff members from any forms of discrimination, harassment or victimisation and provide a safe environment.
The Directors are responsible for providing advice and support on the practical implementation of the Equality and Diversity Policy, and Ladderstore is committed to ensuring that there are no barriers to our services which affects any member of the community and ensures that equality and diversity is part of everything that we do.
All our staff are responsible for contributing to a positive working environment, by treating everyone with dignity and respect, to ensure that behaviour does not cause offence and not to discriminate against anybody with protected characteristics, which are Age, Disability, Gender Reassignment, Marriage and Civil Partnership, Pregnancy and Maternity, Race, Religion or Belief, Sex, Sexual Orientation.