Your Home Is Where Our Heart Is
For 50 years, we’ve led the way in driving positive change across the UK’s housing sector through advocacy, innovation, and collaboration.
Your Home Is Where Our Heart Is
For 50 years, we’ve led the way in driving positive change across the UK’s housing sector through advocacy, innovation, and collaboration.
Our Members
A growing voice in the UK’s Home Improvement sector. At the NHIC our members are passionate about raising the standard and quality of home improvements across the UK and also supporting home owners and tenants in making the right choice when selecting contractors, trades persons or products for use in their home.
The NHIC Podcast
Getting to know the thought leaders and inspirational people from across the home improvement sector. The podcast from the National Home improvement Council connecting industry, government, and householders on the pathway towards zero carbon homes. Sponsored by NHIC members.
Doorstep Digests
Each of our freely available consumer guides in our growing Doorstep Digest library contains independent expert advice and information that is easy to understand and apply. These free guides are valuable resources for tradespeople and homeowners looking to improve homes confidently.
Our Net Zero Commitment
Our Working Groups
Carbon: Leading the Transition to Sustainability
The Carbon Working Group drives progress toward decarbonisation and energy efficiency in UK homes. By championing innovative solutions, advocating for policy change, and empowering members to adopt sustainable practices, we are helping to create a greener, more energy-efficient future for homeowners across the country.
Consumer: Putting Homeowners at the Heart of Change
The Consumer Working Group is dedicated to improving homeowner trust and confidence in the home improvement sector. Through resources like the Doorstep Digests and initiatives that bridge the gap between tradespeople and consumers, we empower homeowners to make informed decisions and ensure positive outcomes.
Competence: Building Skills, Compliance, and Quality
The Competence Working Group focuses on raising industry standards through enhanced training, certification, and compliance. By promoting best practices and fostering professional development, we ensure that our sector is equipped with the skills and expertise needed to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow.
Mental health and well-being podcast
Free access to our special podcast series, sponsored by NHIC members DGCOS, HICS and HIES, focusing on mental well-being in the home improvement, RMI, and construction sectors.
The NHIC membership delivers action and change across the 5Cs of repair, maintenance, and home improvement:
CARBON
Working to reduce whole life carbon emissions from energy and water usage in the home.
CONSUMER
Ensuring the householder is at the heart of our thinking we support and deliver activities that reinforce informed decision making.
COMPLIANCE
Working to improve home improvement and RMI product compliance in the UK marketplace.
COMPETENCY
Promoting the need for increasing the number of competent persons with an embedded core knowledge of whole house retrofit planning and consumer interaction into vocational and professional pathways.
CONNECTION
Creating connection pathways between members, wider industry, householders, and government.
We are a vibrant membership organisation with a voice to deliver our vision to align the ‘set of three’ (Government, industry, and Householders) to reduce energy demand by improving homes.
NHIC operates as a value-driven, not-for-profit organisation, with any surplus being reinvested into research and education programmes which meet the requirements of industry and society at large regarding home improvement.
Safe, healthy and sustainable homes
An ambassador for collaborative action, we work across our membership, wider industry and government to raise all homes up to modern living standards while inspiring and supporting householders to refurbish, maintain and improve their homes using local professionals with confidence.
It’s more than 40 years since the National Home Improvement Council was launched and there remains much to be done and new challenges to address, not least supporting the economic, green and socially conscious recovery post COVID19.
Representing 100’s of trades and sub trades NHIC membership contributes over £13Bn each year to the UK Economy with members delivering over 1 million hours of CPD training each year to raise standards and deliver quality improvements to the nations homes.
This makes the NHIC the most representative and influential body for Home Improvement and RMI professionals in the UK. The true voice of home improvement.
Years Established
Safe, healthy and sustainable homes
An ambassador for collaborative action, we work across our membership, wider industry and government to raise all homes up to modern living standards while inspiring and supporting householders to refurbish, maintain and improve their homes using local professionals with confidence.
It’s more than 40 years since the National Home Improvement Council was launched and there remains much to be done and new challenges to address, not least supporting the economic, green and socially conscious recovery post COVID19.
Representing 100’s of trades and sub trades NHIC membership contributes over £13Bn each year to the UK Economy with members delivering over 1 million hours of CPD training each year to raise standards and deliver quality improvements to the nations homes.
This makes the NHIC the most representative and influential body for Home Improvement and RMI professionals in the UK. The true voice of home improvement.
Latest News
A Successful NHIC Parliamentary Luncheon at the House of Lords
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Celebrating Excellence: The Stunell Award at the NHIC Parliamentary Luncheon
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Members Testimonials
“Corgi Services, the commercial brand licensing business of the Gas Safety Trust, has been a member of the NHIC since 2018. The reason we joined was to support the improvement of homes in the UK which is critical if we are to achieve the zero carbon targets and challenges that the nation will face in the coming decades. The NHIC is well connected into government and with a broad range of industrial membership, enables us to get access to excellent networking and opportunities to influence the agenda.”
“The home improvement sector will be critical to meeting the challenges our country faces, from reaching net zero, to tackling fuel poverty, to training the next generation in highly skilled jobs. It is critical we work together as a sector with one voice, and that is why the work of the National Home Improvement Council is so important”
“Being part of the NHIC has become core to BMA’s mission as an organisation. It’s an essential way to network with influencers on the broader home improvement sector. It also means we’re part of the collective voice of the whole RMI industry.”
“The NHIC’s promotion of a fabric-first approach to building design aligns with Recticel’s belief that it is essential to creating better-insulated homes which optimise interior comfort and wellbeing. Such sustainability is also key to minimising emissions, and future generations across the globe enjoying a safer, healthier environment. Recticel also applauds NHIC’s initiative to reduce the number of people living in fuel poverty.”
“EnviroVent has been members of NHIC for a number of years now and have found the connections that we have made with fellow members extremely valuable. It has allowed us to gain valuable insights in sharing best practice across the refurbishment industry and understanding how we can raise standards and quality of this broad industry for the benefit of consumers in the long term.”
Contact Us
National Home Improvement Council
Suite 2, Healey House
Dene Road
Andover
Hampshire
SP10 2AA