NAMM is a City & Guilds Assured Training Provider. To maintain this status, an annual audit and inspection of training procedures, and documentation are required. NAMM is one of the few City & Guilds Assured training providers permitted to issue its own 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 must meet City & Guilds Assured criteria to train and assess candidates.

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.’ during that time.

NAMM has since 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. To achieve this status all NAMM assessors had to be NPTC qualified. In 2018 as a result of some restructuring by City & Guilds NAMM were moved from City & Guilds NPTC to the City & Guilds Assured portfolio. The same high standards of training and assessment being maintained with continual internal IQA observations and annual external evaluation procedures ensures the application and content of NAMM City & Guilds Assured training and assessing continually meet the required standard.

NAMM has since gained further recognition of excellence through their City & Guilds Assured Training Provider status raising the quality assurance bar yet again. NAMM is currently the only Trade Association for memorial masons in the UK and provides memorial industry-based City & Guilds Assured training courses and assessments backed up by established expert trade knowledge. NAMM is the UK industries founding organisation establishing the memorial masons National Codes of Working Practice which have also been adopted by British Standards Institute in BS8415.

NAMM City & Guilds Assured courses 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
• City & Guilds Assured
• For individuals responsible for safety inspection relating to burial grounds and their infrastructure

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

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

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

• City & Guilds Assured
• 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)

• City & Guilds Assured
• 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)

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

NAMM Diploma

Achieving NAMM City & Guilds Assured awards in memorial masonry core skills, such as the FASM and at least one of the PESM (Produce and Embellish Standard Memorials) courses, will enable the awarding of the NAMM Diploma. The NAMM Diploma is not a City & Guilds Assured award but is NAMMs own award in recognition of the individual achieving valid recognition in attaining the skills and knowledge commensurate with the trade term ” Memorial Mason” and 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 by City & Guilds Assured, the experts in learning excellence and quality.

The Assured Service from City & Guilds provides external validation for NAMM’s 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.)
• City & Guilds Assured provides awards provides digital credentials enabling the easy display and showcase of their quality skills development via digital media.
• Attract and retain talent, motivate employees, and upskill your workforce.

All learners who successfully complete NAMM’s City & Guilds Assured Training Programme/s are issued a NAMM City & Guilds Assured award 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.