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ASSOCIATION NEWS takeNOTICE


POWERED NOW BUSINESS MANAGEMENT APP BUILT FOR DECORATORS


SINCE 2013 POWERED Now have been offering trades a competitive edge, providing the management tool that enables them to spend less time on admin and more time on their business, winning more work and getting paid faster.


• Provide your customer with instant quotes • Generate and send invoices from your phone and tablet in seconds • Manage your diary and team members • Comply with regulation such as CIS and MTD • Never lose paperwork with everything securely backed to the cloud


Whether you are working on iPhone or Android, PC or Mac, paperwork is now easy with everything


in one place. Powered Now is simple to use and trusted by thousands of trade businesses to save them time and


money, and are working to offer PDA Members a special deal on their software. In the meantime, download a 14-day free trial and head to www.powerednow.com/paint


CHECK YOUR SPAM/JUNK FOLDER FOR EMAILS!


We have been experiencing major outages with our email system. This has caused problems with both incoming and outgoing emails to and from the PDA. Please do check your junk/spam folders as our email may have gone into either of them. We have been working to resolve this problem with our IT/email distribution company as quickly as possible. Please do get in contact with us by telephone if you are missing


any information you were expecting to receive from us. Thank you for your understanding and we apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.


HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?


With 2020 now in full swing the PDA team is busy planning the year ahead. Our aim is to help our Members make the most of their


Membership and one of the potential key areas of focus for us to do that is training courses. We want to hear your thoughts about training, including


how you find it best to learn, what topics you feel you would like training in, how much you would be willing to pay and how far you would travel. The PDA team would be really grateful if you could


complete this short online survey – your feedback is important to us!


www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/training_survey20 WINTER WINNERS


We’re pleased to announce the first recipients of our exclusive PDA


Member giveaways! First up was the chance to receive


10 litres of Macpherson Eclipse paint, the five lucky winners were:


• John Clark of WJ Clark & Son • Dan Kelly of D Kelly Decorating • Paul Montague of PJM Decorators • Lee Bunyard from Eclipse Decorating Services and


• Mark Parsons of Mark Parsons Decorating


Construction activity indicators


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Markit/CIPS Construction PMI Index t


Housing starts, England t


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• The first estimate of GDP for Q3 2019 showed that the economy grew by 0.3% in real terms, following a 0.2% contraction in the quarter prior.


• Q3 2019 construction output data edged up by 0.6% on a quarterly basis after declining by 1.2% in the three months to June last year.


• The Markit/CIPS construction PMI edged down further to 44.4 in December, from 45.3 in the previous month.


• In the third quarter of last year, total R&M activity dropped for the second consecutive quarter, by 0.8%


Our January prize draw was for a Go!Paint Roll and Go Bucket, the winners picked at random from all who entered were: • Lee O Sullivan from LAPD Painting & Decorating


• Andrew O'Neill of Fine Lines Decorating • James Lark of Lark Property Services • Les Barber from LSB Decorative Painting • Douglas Gillie of Douglas Gillie Painting & Decorating


We’ve got two fresh new offers again in this issue, check out page 14 for details


on how to put your name ‘in the hat’! @thePDA facebook.com/thePDA


The latest news and updates about the PDA and wider issues across our industry. If you have something to contrubite email info@paintingdecoratingassociation.co.uk


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