Am already working as a plumber though want to get corgi registered. Are these courses you see about the best way to do it? If so what sort of price is reasonable?
The courses you see are the only way to become registered, & about £3.000 if it’s your first time, plus your loss of earnings for 2 weeks. Try to find a training center that will do a block course with all the elements you need, you’ll find it cheaper that way. Also if you find one that is a college there will be no VAT making it 17.5% cheaper still. I have recently taken ccn1,cen1,ckr1,htr1,uhw,partL assesment only at TVU for £890 no VAT. Plus my annual membership fee of £168+VAT, Bargain. Hope this helps:) 
ps: all that is if you have to pay yourself, If you work for a company they will foot the bill, but be aware, if you do work for a company & they register you, you cannot carry out gas work for yourself ( that needs seperate registration) under corgi rules.
& Yes you will need 4 passport photo’s, but a portfolio, it’s corgi not FHM.
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Never heard of corgi registered…………
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The courses you see are the only way to become registered, & about £3.000 if it’s your first time, plus your loss of earnings for 2 weeks. Try to find a training center that will do a block course with all the elements you need, you’ll find it cheaper that way. Also if you find one that is a college there will be no VAT making it 17.5% cheaper still. I have recently taken ccn1,cen1,ckr1,htr1,uhw,partL assesment only at TVU for £890 no VAT. Plus my annual membership fee of £168+VAT, Bargain. Hope this helps:)
ps: all that is if you have to pay yourself, If you work for a company they will foot the bill, but be aware, if you do work for a company & they register you, you cannot carry out gas work for yourself ( that needs seperate registration) under corgi rules.
& Yes you will need 4 passport photo’s, but a portfolio, it’s corgi not FHM.
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Some more info about CORGI training and registration. If you can find a company that will sponsor you to become CORGI registered, they may ask you to sign an agreement that you will work for them for a minimum time – say one or two years. Its only fair if you are asking them to pay the bill, but make sure you understand the whole package deal.
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Its one thing to pass the assessments another to getting Corgi Registered. Believe you have to have a portfolio of supervised work, but not sure what that means in practice.
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Paul L is right, you can take the training, but without a portfolio of work (experience) from a corgi registered company, you won’t get corgi registered in your own right, corgi will contact any company you offer as referee to make sure you make the grade, most companies will not give you experience even if you offer to work for nothing (which would be months rather than weeks), because they don’t want to create thier own competition, and given modern views, most would get corgi reg, and then set up on thier own, no loyalty to the training companies these days, so you can’t blame them, so this means that the companies are cagey about taking people on just to give them experience.
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I am corgi registered, and the company I work for get requests like this all the time, they usually refuse.
Try british gas,they are very open to training up people to become engineers.The other comments are right about the portfolio though.
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