Bollington Announced as New Preferred Insurance Provider of the Age England Association

Bollington Insurance Brokers Limited is delighted to announce their recent appointment as the new preferred insurance provider for the Age England Association.

The Age England Association is a membership body for all the organisations working in partnership with Age UK. Age UK was formed following a merger between Age Concern England and Help the Aged. Representing a membership base of over 300 independent charities with a combined turnover of around £170 million, the Age England Association members offer a wide range of vital services for older people including information and advice, day services, handy person services and befriending schemes to name a few.

Following the above changes, earlier this year the Age England Association took the decision to review their preferred insurance provider and carried out a full tender process. With a dedicated care and charity team already in place; 10 years experience in the care, charity and not for profit sectors; strong relationships with insurers to create an exclusive scheme for members and a nationwide network of highly experienced charity account managers, Bollington won the contract.

John Briers, Chair of the Age England Association said ‘We are delighted about our recent appointment of Bollington Insurance Brokers as our preferred insurance provider. This followed a robust tendering process where we considered several different providers and we believe that the Bollington offering could provide a significant benefit for Age England Association members. Because they already insure a number of our members and have a strong understanding of the sector, Bollington were the natural choice."

The exclusive scheme underwritten by a panel of insurers has the benefit of the widest covers available to the sector, in-house delegated authority for quick quotation turnaround and a number of exclusive features including access to a bespoke online health and safety service.

Paul Moors, Chairman for Bollington commented; ‘Our recent tender win to be the preferred insurance provider to the Age England Association gives me tremendous satisfaction that our hard work and dedication to the care and charity sector has been recognised. We offer insurances to charity and not for profit sectors through our specialist Care Division so this is a great fit for our organisation. We are looking forward to working together.’

Bollington celebrate exam success by launching Professional Trainee Scheme

London, 14th December 2011

Bollington Insurance Brokers has announced the launch of its new Graduate and School Leaver Training Scheme aimed at ambitious individuals interested in embarking an insurnace career.

This follows the success of three long standing employees who have recently achieved the ACII accreditation through the Bollington Adademy.

In recognition of their achievement Kelly Nadin, Simon Ryan and Joanna Taylor were presented with awards ar the Bollington Annual Communications Day by former England and British Lions Rugby player Dean Richards (see photo).

The Bollington Academy was launched a few years ago as a training and development framework to cover technical insurance and management development ensuring that internal talent could match the requirements of the fast growing business.

Having successfully trained over 100 employees through the CII programme over the last three years, Bollington has expanded their current Bollington Academy to offer a full Training Scheme offering technical insurance training and hands on experience within the business.

Bollington Chairman, Paul Moors commented 'Both Bog Gratton, our Underwriting Director, and myself benefited from the former Sun Alliance Professional Trainee scheme when we commenced our careers.  We now want to attract young people from school and from university into the industry through our "Grow your Own" initiative which we have implemented.  The best of our young people go on to complete their ACII and become the new generation of managers and experts in our business'.

The Training scheme will be promoted at schools, colleges and universities.

AA Insurance has expanded its commercial insurance offering through an exclusive arrangement with Bollington, one of the UK's leading independent business insurance brokers. The deal means that the AA is launching new products to add to its commercial range, including insurance for recovery operators, the taxi trade, motor traders and repairers and self drive hire companies.

Andrew Strong, the AA's chief executive, points out that these motor industry products align well with the AA's motoring pedigree.

"The AA is a household name for roadside assistance as well as motor insurance, including van and commercial vehicle cover. Adding specific motor trade insurance is a natural extension to the range and, in addition, forms a perfect fit with the AA's fleet business breakdown cover."

As part of the deal, Bollington is offering AA fleet cover to its own commercial customers. Paul Moors, chairman of the Bollington Group says: "We have worked extremely hard to win this imaginative and creative relationship with the AA. We have over 40 years' experience in the commercial broking sector and I believe that this is one of the most significant new ventures in the commercial market.

"Our broking experience, coupled with the AA's marketing ability, is a perfect arrangement. It offers huge potential including development of new services created through AA's financial services such as business credit card or fuel cards."

Mr Strong says that in the past, the AA has concentrated on distribution of commercial insurance through customers who buy other insurance products and, while that has been growing steadily, it represents a small part of the total business market.

Adds Mr Strong: "There's a greater need today for advice and tailoring products to suit individual requirements. Now we have that opportunity through our new relationship with Bollington - not just in the motor sector but amongst small businesses of every sort."

Apart from the motor trade, the AA offers cover for pubs, restaurants, hotels and guest houses; small businesses such as traders, contractors, landlords, consultants and shop keepers; and van and small commercial vehicle fleet cover. Risks include buildings and contents, liability, employers' and professional indemnity, tools and goods in transit.

"This is a very comprehensive range and I'm confident that we will be able to meet almost every small business insurance requirement. I firmly believe that we are now poised to mirror our personal lines success in the commercial sector."

London, 26th September 2011: Niche and affinity commercial insurance broker Bollington has appointed Andy Barnes to the role of Head of Risk Management to expand its bespoke risk management services to new and existing clients.

Andy will head up the team of dedicated Risk Managers at Bollington and brings over 20 years risk management experience to the role.

Before joining Bollington, Andy was Managing Director of Henderson Risk Management, where he ran a successful and well established risk management business for four years. He has also been responsible for a large team of risk consultants as the Head of Risk Management for Richard Bolton Insurance Group, Technical Risk Services.

Prior to that Andy was a risk manager to the food industry; working 17 years for J Sainsbury's latterly as regional risk manager for the North.

Chris Patterson, Director at Bollington Insurance Brokers Ltd commented: "Despite the continued economic gloom there are vibrant growing businesses around that need specialist help to contain and manage risk. Larger established businesses also require specialist risk services and Bollington is actively looking to grow its risk management business to meet the demands of new and existing clients. We are extremely pleased to have Andy on board to lead the expansion and take Bollington to the next level."