Monthly Archives: December 2025
HAPPY NEW YEAR
To ALL our Members and Business Colleagues,
2025 was a landmark year for the Association and resulted in our invitation into Westminster, to provide a “state of the nation” report to the Secretary of State for the MHCLG, on the overall provision or percieved lack of provision of publicly accessible toilets across the UK.
Initially working with Alex Norris MP who was the Secretary of State in the first half of the year; we made signficant progress in getting government to recognise the appaling lack of good clean decent public tolets still available for the residents and many thousands of overseas visitors to find and use.
Outlining the massive economic influence that these facilities provide to local shops, markets and stores and the significant equality, health, safety well-being and sanitary benefits that are directly derived from decent levels of well maintained and proper toilet provision.
On 25th September we were delighted to welcome the introduction of the governments new “Pride in Place” policy and the announcement of a £5billion fund over the next 10 years to improve local neighbourhoods and streets – and even more welcome was the inclusion of pulic toilet provision within this document (See Section 99)
I am also delighted to report that we have been contacted and welcomed the support of a number of MP’s and members of the Lords.
Lord Craig MacKinlay has recently become our first Patron and we are working on plans to host a meeting in Westminster early in the new year to engage with all our political colleagues hopefully set some future goals.
Our mission is being set to work closely with the new Secretary of State, the Rt Hon Steven Reed MP and his parliamentary team to support the role out of this fantastic initiative; and to continue to push for a “Duty” to be placed on all Local Authorities and coucils to devise a toilet “Strategy” for each area and to see that plan implemented and endorsed by government.
I look forward to working with our Management Advisory Committee and all our memebers and colleagues throughout 2026. We wish you all Peace Love and Joy in all your endeavours both at home and in business.
Raymond Martin
Managing Director for the BTA
