ITAS was set up in the early part of 2004 by Martin Hughes when he retired from the construction industry. Over the years Martin had realised most trade associations are just clubs that anyone can join who is willing to part with the membership fee. So to help genuine trade professionals prove their ability to provide an excellent standard of work, and to provide the public with a safe way to find tradesmen he founded the Independent Trade Accreditation Scheme.

Although we are one of the UK's newest trade organisation's, we are also one of the most stringent when it comes to our members. As part of our service all ITAS approved tradesmen are covered by the "ITAS guarantee" which offers the public protection from cowboy tradesmen, and our tradesmen protection from cowboy customers (people who intentionally set out to rip off tradesmen).

So what originally began as a good idea has blossomed into this upstanding, reputable and customer service driven trade association which now has over 6,700 members and is regularly protecting general public from rogue traders, whilst still offering our members a full protection system from rogue customers.