Following a significant investment of over £400,000 StagecraftUK has become the UK’s biggest stockist of industry-leading OV Truss – meaning that its clients can take advantage of the truss’s quicker set-up and break-down times as well as its significant improvement in strength and weight loadings, over more traditional products. The OV Truss has become an…

November Total Training Update Now that the industry is ramping up towards the Christmas season, naturally enough training activity diminishes slightly – leaving more time for attending committee meetings, when not planning 2018 and working on projects with the rest of the TSG team. The three day course is already booking into March 2018 and…

Total Training Update September saw Total Training working in Edinburgh delivering another 3 day course at the Festival Theatre. This was the completion of a contract that started in June. At the same time, we were delivering another 3 day course in London at the Cockpit Theatre for City of Westminster College. This is a…

Total Training July 2017 Update July kicked off with a return visit to the New London Theatre to deliver both work at height training and refresher rescue training for Really Useful Theatres Group technicians from the New London and Her Majesty’s. Session included using an installed system and a more generic method that caters for…

Nigel Tranter Promoted to Technical Director Total Solutions Group is happy to announce the appointment of Nigel Tranter in the role of Technical Director. He has been a key member of the design team for an extended period of time and it seemed only natural for him to make the transition from Project Manager into…

Following another busy summer season UK Rigging decided it was time to add to its ground support system options, adding quantity, capacity and flexibility, utilising their already extensive stock of Slick GS and Total SMD Truss. With a selection of mast types available including stand-alone video wall structures and standard ground support X-Bases UK Rigging…

A Busy Summer for Total Training We’ve delivered three of our every popular 3 day rigging courses at the Birmingham site, been to Perth to deliver the Federation of Scottish Theatres Winter School (don’t ask) and Warwick Arts Centre to deliver the ABTT’s annual Summer School’s rigging and work at height courses for the ABTT…

Held on the first day of the PLASA show, this unique conference attracts over 150 practitioners, managers, engineers, safety professionals and policy makers from around the globe. 30% of its delegates attending from 20 different overseas countries, it has a truly international flavour. Rocky’s keynote presentation looked at his career as a rigger and the influences from…

A multi-million pound music institute offering a world-class education to hundreds of students could be created in Brierley Hill if a feasibility study proves successful. The £31million project, which will be based in and around The Waterfront, is currently undergoing feasibility work to see which elements will fit best in the different buildings. If given…

Sharpening pencils - life below the hook. This will explore the traditional divide created by the position of a ‘lifting machine’.