Since its inception, British Made for Quality has campaigned vigorously for British engineering, manufacturing (large and small), for the encouragement of enterprise and the development of training, education and apprenticeships – so that our industries can regenerate themselves in an era of intense global competition.
For the last 15 years, BMFQ has made a virtue of its trademark logo – a badge of honour that is displayed by the many companies which have joined our cause. But we have also found that many of the new people joining us are doing so as “ordinary members”. For example, many individuals and organisations have joined us in our quest for British manufacturing, and that is why BMFQ as an organisation has changed.
We have reconstituted ourselves as a wider movement – larger than just simply a membership organisation, with a prestige badge. From now on, BMFQ will operate through the channels of social media – Facebook and Twitter – enabling our message to radiate out, and embrace many more people than would simply be the case if we remained a conventional membership group.
Through Twitter and Facebook we are able to communicate a vast amount of information to our members, and – at the click of a mouse – to unite with other campaigns, such as the vital efforts being made to save steel-production at Wales’s Port Talbot site. BMFQ can now have a daily “conversation” with many different strands of business – from heavy-duty industry and precision engineering, to niche manufacturers, such as Cornish wooden-boat builders or local producers, and Britain’s thriving regional food and drink industry.
Our website continues to provide articles, news updates, opinions and information, and membership of BMFQ is simply a matter of contacting us to discuss how you would like to help. If you are a company perhaps you would like to support our work with a voluntary donation – or if you are an individual or commercial lobbying group, you can sign up in a similar way just by contacting us.
Welcome to a more flexible and open organisation. We look forward to working with you in the movement to maintain Britain’s industrial and manufacturing bedrock – and wealth.
SAVE OUR STEEL!
With the survival of the Port Talbot steelworks hanging in the balance, there are justified demands that “something must be done” to safeguard what remains of Britain’s steel industry. Members of parliament from both sides of the House of Commons have joined forces with trade unionists […]
We must make 2016 the year of British manufacturing
The Government is encouraging British companies to export – and that must be encouraged. But there is another avenue open to us if our manufacturers are to thrive, says BMFQ – and that could be through our own backdoor… The recent TV advertising campaign by HM Government […]
Inventor and lifetime BMFQ member Trevor Baylis dies aged 80.
Trevor Baylis, honorary life member of BMFQ and inventor of the wind-up radio died recently at the age of 80. Born in London he set about designing a radio that required no external power source after gaining inspiration from a TV programme about Aids in Africa. “People […]
SAVE OUR STEEL!
With the survival of the Port Talbot steelworks hanging in the balance, there are justified demands that “something must be done” to safeguard what remains of Britain’s steel industry. Members of parliament from both sides of the House of Commons have joined forces with trade unionists […]
Craftmanship and endeavour – from the heart of Cornwall
“We are all about enjoying your time on sea and land with the most traditional and beautiful material, ‘wood’. Wood is our passion, we have worked with it all our lives but never get tired of the ever changing characteristics it exhibits. If it is tended […]
Manufacturing growth at 30-year high as UK factories capitalise on export boom
Britain’s factories are benefiting from an export boom as the weaker pound and demand from the stronger world economies leave manufacturers with the biggest order books since 1988. Output is surging as a result making manufacturing a strong point in the UK’s relatively sluggish economy, the figures […]
Inventor and lifetime BMFQ member Trevor Baylis dies aged 80.
Trevor Baylis, honorary life member of BMFQ and inventor of the wind-up radio died recently at the age of 80. Born in London he set about designing a radio that required no external power source after gaining inspiration from a TV programme about Aids in Africa. “People […]
UK manufacturing – expanding or declining; the truth!
After years of understating the size and importance of the UK manufacturing sector with reports that we should no longer have manufacturing because we are now a “post-industrial economy”, the truth has finally emerged. The true size of manufacturing in the UK is more than double the […]
Heavyweight British company calls for possible EU breakaway
Currently reporting £303 million in earnings, JCB is one of the United Kingdom’s success stories. Its heavyweight machinery (from excavators to tractors) is known the world over, and is truly the leader in its field. Earlier this month, North Midlands-based JCB won a massive £4m contract from […]