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Whether you work from home, mobile or a salon location, ABT Part of Howden completely understands your business and treatment portfolio. With a specialist understanding of the sector, staff that have previously worked in the industry and a dedicated team of professionals with over 50 years of beauty market experience, we work tirelessly to protect your business.

ABT are specialists – we understand your business, treatment ranges, product queries, clients and frustrations that can arise. Established in 2007, ABT Insurance has been successfully offering insurance solutions for individual therapists, hairdressers, salon owners and students working in the beauty, hair and complementary therapy sectors.

We are a trusted name in this specialist insurance and membership field, with over 18,000 active members. We offer benefits including £6 million Professional Liability Insurance, £6 million Public Liability Insurance, £6 million Product Liability Insurance, £6 million Medical Malpractice/Treatment Risk Insurance as standard.

Not only do we communicate with Government where required on behalf of our members, we also work with a vast majority of industry suppliers to bring you new product information, launches, information and exclusive offers to your inbox regularly.

In addition, ABT Insurance provides comprehensive business support to our industry, operates industry news sites, publishes magazines, runs events, supports training and offers accreditation.

We also pride ourselves on working with market-leading beauty trade publications such as Scratch Magazine alongside our online news desk BeautyandHairdressing.co.uk.

What’s more, our experience in the beauty and hair sectors means we can offer salons, training providers and industry suppliers a broad range of marketing services through our in-house brand and design team.

Let us look after you, so you can look after your clients.

ABT Insurance

From Student to Professional, and from home, mobile or salon location, ABT insure over 18,000 members for up to £6 million Public, Product Liability and Treatment Risk Insurance.
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ABT Accreditation

ABT Accreditation is a simple, low cost and extremely efficient way to step out of the crowd and show your potential students that you are approved, endorsed and eligible to offer, on completion of your courses, ABT membership and insurance packages to them.
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Membership Website

From skincare to cosmetics, nail treatments to anti-ageing therapies, hair to barbering, and advanced beauty procedures to tanning, beautyandhairdressing.co.uk is at the heart of the industry sharing the latest beauty and hair products, treatments and special offers as well as up to date business talks to keep our professional in the know.
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Howden

Howden Broking Group, a leading independent insurance broking group is the 5th largest employee-owned business in the UK, and one of the largest insurance groups in the world. We manage premiums on behalf of millions of clients spanning 100 countries.
Founded in 1994 and headquartered in London, Howden operates in 55 countries across Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand. Howden Broking Group provides comprehensive solutions across personal and commercial insurance, life and pensions, health insurance and mortgages to individuals, small and large businesses, and high net worth private clients. Howden is proud of its’ expert talent across the business and actively work to provide clients with the best service in the market.
Howden represent 1.7m clients, $42bn premium under management spanning 100 Countries and is proud to be an employee-owned business. ABT are proud to be part of the Howden Broking Group.
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Newline

Newline Group is a market-leading specialty insurance group that operates through three underwriting platforms: Newline Syndicate 1218 at Lloyd’s, Newline Insurance Company Limited and Newline Europe Versicherung AG.
Headquartered in London, with offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada and Latin America, Newline Group underwrites international casualty, cargo and specialty lines of business in more than 80 countries around the world.
Newline Insurance Company Limited was formed in 2006 and is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority to write insurance in the United Kingdom and facultative reinsurance in most other jurisdictions worldwide.
ABT believe that the Newline Group and their combination of underwriting excellence, strong balance sheet and reliable claims-paying practices provide unparalleled value.
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National Register of Beauty & Hair Professionals

Powered by Professionals, Trusted by Individuals; the National Register of Beauty & Hair Professionals is a trusted list of over 18,000 Professionals who are qualified and insured via ABT Insurance a specialist membership and insurance provider for Beauty, Hair, Complementary and Nail therapists within the UK. By completing a series of checks, the professionals have been accepted and insured by ABT Insurance to carry out treatments they are qualified in on the public.
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Vouchable

Vouchable provides a simple and effective way of selling gift vouchers to your customers, directly from your website. From set up to fulfillment and tailored design that matches your brand, its the best way to sell your gift vouchers online. Save by becoming an ABT member.
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Scratch Magazine

Scratch is the world’s leading publication for nail professionals. Its printed magazine lands with subscribers on a monthly basis, and it is dedicated to producing content for the professional nail sector that pushes all boundaries.
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Beauty and Hairdressing Magazine

An annual digital subscription to the UK's leading beauty trade organisation magazine available to all members via our website and delivered to members inboxes bi monthly or printed copy distributed through our network at trade events and functions.
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Shows

ABT exhibits and host various shows throughout the year so you can meet the ABT Team in person, listen and take part in seminars and question panels held by industry experts as well as have your personal questions answered in a more one to one environment. We also offer show only discounts and accreditation extras which involves the ABT marketing team, who will be on hand to help you.
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Industry Communication

ABT are here to support the industry we work within every day and are here to do all we can to ensure our members, our industry and that our businesses, big and small within our sector get the recognition and voice they deserve so ABT uses its platform to communicate and lobby government on your behalf.
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Facebook

Make sure you are following us on Facebook, to be the first to know when we have special offers on insurance, events that we will be hosting or attending, or speakers we think you should be listening too on key topics that could provide you the help and support you need in regard to business trends and legalities. Facebook is super helpful when it comes to communication as you can contact us through direct messaging, and we will sort it for you within 48 hours during a working week.
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Instagram

ABT’s Instagram gives you an insight into the everyday with us, be on the ground with us at events and get behind the scenes footage and insights as we attend Educational Roadshows, PR and Product Launch Events, Awards Ceremonies, even Top Secret meetings with clients or our latest designs yet to be released! We also update you with the latest offers and you can contact us with ease by just sending us a DM.
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Short bursts of need to know information is disseminated through our twitter profile, whether that is the latest special offers or updates to ABT Insurance you will be sure to know what is going on when you follow us on Twitter.
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Email

If you haven’t already, we should be a starred, saved and white listed email contact in your inbox. How else will you know the latest special offer with direct links off your insurance, policy wording updates, when you are due for renewal and so much more.
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