NAMM is a City & Guilds Assured Training Provider. To maintain this status, an annual audit and inspection of training provision, required procedures, and documentation are required. NAMM is one of the few City & Guilds Assured training providers permitted to issue its own certification certificates. Additionally, all candidates who successfully complete a NAMM City & Guilds Assured training course are provided with City & Guilds Assured digital credentials.

NAMM trainers and assessors are City & Guilds qualified.

From the early days, NAMM organised specialised seminars for members. In 1986, it became the managing agent for a City & Guilds validated training course devised by its Technical and Training Committee in conjunction with Bath College. This move resulted in the Department of Employment conferring upon it the status of ‘Approved Training Organization.’

NAMM has maintained a close working relationship with City & Guilds, jointly developing bespoke meaningful training and qualifications aimed at raising standards and providing assurances through the validation of essential trade skills and knowledge.

In 2009, NAMM Head Office achieved City & Guilds NPTC Centre status. All NAMM assessors are NPTC qualified, and NAMM also has several City & Guilds qualified tutors. NPTC assessors must be reverified every two years and undergo continuous internal IQA observations to ensure the application and content of training and assessing achieve the required standard.

In 2018, NAMM gained further recognition of excellence through attaining City & Guilds Assured Training Provider status. This has raised the quality assurance bar yet again regarding the standard of training provided by NAMM. NAMM is currently the only training provider in the UK that can offer memorial industry-based City & Guilds Assured training combined with City & Guilds NPTC final Assessment and Certification. This combination provides the utmost assurance to those seeking confirmation of the standard of training and certification provided by NAMM.

NAMM City & Guilds Assured Training and Certification are available for the following:

S.I.A.M. (Safety Inspection and Assessment of Memorials)

• Ensures compliance with Ministry of Justice guidance and BS8415-2018
• Assured by City & Guilds
• For individuals responsible for safety inspection relating to burial grounds and their infrastructure

C.I.B.G. (Compliance in Burial Grounds)

• Assured by City & Guilds
• For Burial Ground operators and individuals responsible for burial ground management and bereavement activities

F.A.S.M. (Fix and Secure Memorials)

• Assured by City & Guilds
• For individuals responsible for erecting memorials in burial grounds
• Ensures compliance with BS8415-2018

P.E.S.M.-HT (Produce and Embellish Standard Memorials Hand Tooled)

• Assured by City & Guilds
• For experienced skilled individuals using hand tooling methods to produce, embellish, and inscribe memorials

P.E.S.M.-MT (Produce and Embellish Standard Memorials Machine Tooled)

• Assured by City & Guilds
• For experienced skilled individuals using machine tooling methods to produce, embellish, and inscribe memorials

NAMM Diploma

Achieving NAMM City & Guilds Assured Certification in the required memorial masonry core skills, such as the memorial fixing unit and at least one of the PESM (Produce and Embellish Standard Memorials) courses, will enable the awarding of the NAMM Diploma. This affirms the holder as a craft memorial mason in line with the National Occupational Standards definition for that occupation.

NAMM is determined to support the craft and preserve and promote the skills that define the memorial mason. These skill-based training units will be assessed on-site, enabling the pace of learning and the final assessment to be geared to individual candidates’ ability, circumstances, and requirements.

NAMM’s training programs are recognised by City & Guilds/ILM, the global experts in learning excellence and quality.

The Assured Service from City & Guilds provides external recognition for NAMM’s in-house specialised training programs.

To maintain this recognition, Assured Service expert learning and development consultants continually assess processes, systems, and procedures against City & Guilds’ exacting quality Assured Benchmark standards. This ensures that NAMM candidates have the confidence and reassurance that NAMM’s training meets best practice standards, allowing them to stand out from the crowd.

Benefits of the Assured Service:

• External validation of NAMM’s training programs from a trusted global brand, providing a mark of learning quality and credibility.
• Sets NAMM apart from the competition by demonstrating their commitment to quality training. (Assured status is only awarded to programs that meet City & Guilds Benchmark standards.)
• Supported by Digitalme, Assured provides NAMM’s learners with a co-branded digital credential, enabling them to track engagement and showcase their quality skills development externally via the web.
• Attract and retain talent, motivate employees, and upskill your workforce.

Assured Criteria:

• Application: Submitting or agreeing to all forms used, example applications for membership; others include agreement to conduct policies, procedures & statements.
• Course: Completing relevant coursework in a formal classroom environment or self-study education.
• Assessment: Passing a formal assessment or exam.
• Education: Experience: Representing diverse or significant educational experiences or events, such as graduating from a program.
• Credential: Earning a recognized professional or industrial credential (not academic).

All learners who successfully complete NAMM’s Assured Training Programme/s are issued a NAMM City & Guilds Assured Certificate and Digital Credential, which outlines course content-description/metadata embedded into their personal online digital credential and emailed directly to the participant.

Digital Credentials: The earners of Assured credentials can quickly and easily share their achievement by embedding it in online-professional profiles such as LinkedIn or in their CV, allowing people to instantly validate their credential to give confidence in what they can do:

For employers or others who view the credential, it’s a trusted format that can be instantly validated in one click, revealing the information contained within it.

• Share to LinkedIn certifications.
• Share with peers, friends and family on social media.
• Embed on CVs, online profiles, email signatures, blogs, or websites.

NAMM City & Guilds Assured Training ensures trusted, structured, multi-layered, controlled procedures that meet best practice requirements at all levels and stand out from the crowd.

Think Training, Think City & Guilds assured, Think NAMM.

For information on training, including booking and cost, please contact enquiries@namm.org.uk.