Government and industry relationships: The BMRA is your voice when lobbying the government (nationally and in Europe) and working with stakeholders such as Defra, The Environment Agency and British Transport Police to highlight the issues you need addressed and work to improve the industry in the long term.
In-house advice: Advice on technical, regulatory, legislative and environmental issues, the Scrap Metals Dealers Act 2013, Air Weapons and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015, wasye classification, and much more.
Employment and Business support from Croner: BMRA members have access to this range of Croner’s expert advice as part of your membership.
Insurance: The BMRA has insurance brokers Peter Hoare & Co. and Howden in membership, who offer bespoke insurance services to members that reflect the needs of the industry.
Save up to 30% on insurance* available through Peter Hoare Insurance Brokers Limited. It has exclusive rates/premiums only available to BMRA members.
*On average members pay up to 30% less than if approaching the same insurers without BMRA membership. The bespoke recycling policy wording also incorporates a number of additional covers/extras often not provided by other insurers.
Training: In 2019 the BMRA launched electric car dismantling awareness training with CarTakeBack.
Additional training offerings range from: Fundamentals of Metallurgy, Fires training and Continuing Competence.
Training is held either at BMRA HQ, off-site or through service members.
Updated Health & Safety Manual and accompanying site safety posters: The BMRA has relaunched its sector-specific Health and Safety Manual. The Manual, which has been an invaluable resource for members, will be accompanied by a new set of posters focusing on the key Health and Safety issues found on metal recycling sites.
BMRA’s health and safety offering has been developed to help its members ensure their sites are a safe space in which to operate. Working with experts in the field, BMRA has updated the Manual to ensure it takes account of changes in legislation and wider health and safety practices.
It is available at www.recyclemetals.org/healthandsafety.
Energy: BMRA has partnered with Enexus, who offer members the ability to save time, money, and meet business objectives with a smart, simple, sustainable approach to energy management. Unencumbered by the restrictive process and systems of large-scale energy brokers, Enexus provide a simple, agile approach to enhancing and optimising your energy.
They appoint a genuine energy expert with over 10 years’ industry experience as your account manager. Their role is to become your energy partner, and gain an in-depth understanding of your unique operations in order to develop procurement and energy saving strategies that meet and exceed your unique business goals.
As well as supporting you with the day-to-day queries and supplier management, our experts routinely assess your usage, consumption, and waste, looking for new opportunities to ultimately help you spend less on business energy.
As part of its member benefit offering, all BMRA members can get a free energy audit from Enexus which includes:
- Desktop survey of energy efficiency
- Contract structure review
- Price review
- Availability capacity review (most businesses pay too much for availability and by streamlining this, can save almost immediately)
- Green/Net Zero options
Business water supply: BMRA’s energy partner, Enexus, can also assist you with your business water supply. Recent deregulation within the industry means that business in the UK now have the flexibility to choose between water suppliers in the same way they can for gas and electricity. Depending on your usage, switching water supplier could reduce your bills by up to 18% – in some cases even more. Enexus manages the whole tendering process from start to finish, to find you a business water supplier that delivers the right expertise and capacity for your requirements, along with the very best tariffs and savings. They will cover water audits, water bill analysis, water use surveys and multisite water supplys.
Legal advice and representation: Mariel Irvine Solicitors has agreed to provide legal advice and representation to BMRA members at a reduced rate. The firm, which as a long-standing relationship with the BMRA, offers expertise in a range of areas, including:
- Environmental, licensing, regulatory and enforcement issues
- Liability and insurance issues
- Employment law
- Dispute resolution
- VAT
HMCA was established over 45 years ago and has grown to be one of the most successful membership benefit providers in the UK. HMCA membership is also one of the most exclusive as our plans are only available to the members of trade, professional and membership groups and subscribers of select publications.
*Exclusive offer available to members of British Metals Recycling Association and other selected membership groups
Discounts on IT, access to tech advice and other benefits from Dell: Dell UK has partnered with BMRA to offer members a range of discounts on selected IT and other benefits.
These include:
• 10-20% discount off laptops, desktops and accessories
• Access to our highly trained Small Business Technology Advisors to help with free advice to grow your business
Industry recruitment: BMRA partners with Siamo Recruitment. Siamo will offer BMRA members a reduced fee on ALL recruitment. For permanent recruitment it will offer a 10% fee and for temporary staff a specific rate can be agreed.
Water overcharges: It is estimated that as much as £10m p.a. has been levied incorrectly to recycling companies for surface drainage. Cadantis Forensics has uncovered a culture of huge systematic overcharging in the UK Water Industry and are proactively working to correct and reverse the trend.
Cadantis Forensics run a full forensic investigation and enter appeals for its clients backed up by a full inhouse legal and policy team. They will aim to bring its clients out of charge following a series of sewer surveys (conducted at its own cost) plus refunds at a minimum of six years back retrospectively.
Contract & Legal Services: BMRA partners BEB are passionate about protecting businesses with robust contracts – typically terms & conditions, sub-contractor agreements, shareholder agreements, GDPR policies, supplier agreements, and much more. Having a bespoke contract is the best way to fully protect your business. This offers; Protection, Legality and Promotion.
BEB also offer an affordable contract review service where it will summarise the critical points you need to know and give you a list of the clauses they would recommend you renegotiate.
It offers BMRA members a 10% discount today.
Barclaycard payment terminals: Metals recyclers can apply for a scrap metal PDQ terminals available via Barclaycard. This enables companies to perform a ‘payment’ to valid Visa debit cards. Members can contact the BMRA about how to apply.
Save up to 40% on Sage products: BMRA members can now access discounted rates on all subscription-based Sage 50 products. Visit https://www.ifrc.co.uk/bmra for more information.
Discounted PPE: BMRA members have access to discounted PPE from PK Safety.
Get involved: The BMRA has a number of committees including the Legal and Policy Group and Membership and Communications Committee, that ordinary members are able to sit on as vacancies become available.
Exclusive membership events: Each year the BMRA hold exclusive member events. These include the AGM and Golf day, typically held in June, and the Annual Dinner, preceeded by a free networking event, in November. There are other events across the year including tours, for example race days and a trip to the London Metal Exchange.
- Annual Dinner: Free networking event prior to the dinner. In 2023 it is being held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London in November.
- Annual Dinner: Various items to sponsor such as wine, menu cards etc and donate to the raffle and auction. Members are required to purchase a ticket for the dinner. Support is promoted via the BMRA website and social media channels. See last years event.
- AGM and Summer Dinner including golf competition: There are sponsorship opportunities including goody bags, photographer and trophies. Why not submit a team? The day is a great opportunity to network with customers and potential customers. This year it took place on Monday 4 July at the Dalmahoy Hotel & Country Club near Edinburgh in 2022. Read up about the event. Location in 2023 to be confirmed.
Dedicated page on the BMRA website: Your own page on recyclemetals.org, accessible from the Recyclers' Directory and allowing you to provide up-to-date information about your company and the metals you take. You are welcome to use this as a website listed in directories such as yell.com.
Exclusive members only area of the website: An area only for members giving you to access to important documentation and past bulletins.
Promote yourself to fellow members: Members can use BMRA communication channels to share their news with fellow members. Current channels include:
- The website, which has a dedicated news area.
- Scrapbook: Published every two months, there is the opportunity to purchase a full-page exclusive A4 advert. Scrapbook is distributed to every member site and key industry stakeholders and MPs. It is also available as a PDF on the members’ area of the website. 2022 space fully booked, enquire about 2023 at a reduced rate if booked in 2022.
- FRAGments, a monthly email newsletter sent to members.
- Social media - Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Access to Service Members: Many of whom provide specialist services for the scrap metal and metals recycling industry.
Advertise your equipment, jobs and wanted items: Members are able to advertise equipment sales and job adverts, as well as wanted adverts via BMRA's digital channels. The individual, text-based listings will be hosted on dedicated pages on the recyclemetals.org website and will be promoted via bulletins and social media.
Please note we are unable to accommodate wanted or sale adverts for metal due to competition compliance.
Help the future of Metals Recycling: The first sector-specific apprenticeship was launched, the Metal Recycling General Operative. It is a level 2 apprenticeship as well as the level 5 Metal Recycling Technical Manager. They are open to employees of any age and is a 12-18-month assessment covering a number of industry areas that reflect the complexities faced by those working in metals recycling. Those in your company who are under 35 can join the Young British Metals Recyclers (YBMR). It gives members a helpful resource by providing learning and development along with bespoke training that can enhance their own reputation within the company that they work, develop their customer relationships and improve their career progression.