St Austell and Heavitree offer licensees free BII services

St Austell will pay the BII membership fee for each of their 148-strong estate of tenanted pubs and pay for the BII’s e-compliance learning package for all outlets.

Meanwhile, Heavitree is providing all of its licensees that sign up to BII membership with free e-compliance training.

Adam Luck, St Austell’s estate director, said: “We are passionate about supporting our licensees, and providing BII membership as well as the e-compliance programme helps ensure our licensees can access fantastic business support and enable them and their staff to be fully compliant in all the legislative areas they need to be.”

Terry Wheatley, trade director at Heavitree, said: “It was an easy decision to make in supporting our tenants, to help ensure they are able to train staff easily and effectively without taking days out of the business.”

The BII’s e-compliance package provides online training in health and safety, fire safety, food safety, human resources legal requirements and responsible retailing to licensees and their staff.

The breweries are following Fuller’s and Admiral Taverns, which have already provided free BII membership to their licensees.

John Melia, BII’s client development director, said: “With licensees facing the never-ending pressures of legislation, compliance, red tape, and trying to run a business, these companies have shown forward-thinking in their support.”