Garden Rooms 365 has announced a seasonal promotion offering free air conditioning with selected garden room installations booked during the Christmas and New Year period. The initiative supports the company’s commitment to delivering garden rooms that remain comfortable and functional throughout the year, responding to growing interest in multi-purpose outdoor spaces.

As homeowners increasingly use garden rooms as permanent extensions of the home, their role has expanded well beyond occasional or seasonal use. These spaces now serve as home offices, gyms, studios, and living areas, making temperature regulation an essential design consideration. The inclusion of air conditioning is intended to address this requirement at the installation stage, rather than as a later upgrade.

The offer applies to qualifying projects confirmed within the promotional timeframe and includes the installation of air conditioning systems matched to each garden room’s specifications. Garden Rooms 365 has stated that system selection is based on room size and intended use, ensuring effective temperature control throughout the year.

“Homeowners are thinking more carefully about how they will use their space over the long term,” Mark Steven said. “This offer is designed to help customers plan for comfort and usability from the outset.”

The promotion reflects wider trends in home improvement, where functionality, energy efficiency, and long-term performance are increasingly prioritised by homeowners. Modern garden rooms are now expected to deliver the same levels of comfort and efficiency as internal living spaces.

Alongside its construction and design offering, Garden Rooms 365 has continued to enhance its digital strategy to support customer engagement and business growth. This has been achieved with support from One Base Media, which has helped strengthen the company’s online performance through strategic digital marketing initiatives.

The free air conditioning promotion is available for a limited period on selected garden room installations and is subject to availability. Full details on eligibility and booking timelines are available at https://gardenrooms365.co.uk/contact-us.

Independent workplace investigations are evolving to reflect the changing priorities of modern organisations, and ibex gale is leading this transformation across the UK. With employee wellbeing, psychological safety and organisational culture taking centre stage, ibex gale supports employers in conducting investigations that balance procedural integrity with fairness, respect and trauma-informed practice.

A workplace investigation provides a formal framework for addressing serious workplace concerns, including misconduct, bullying, discrimination and whistleblowing. While these processes have traditionally focused on compliance, ibex gale is demonstrating a different approach. Its team of specialist investigators applies trauma-aware interviewing techniques, structured approaches to minimise bias and strong interviewee support, enabling sensitive cases to be handled with both accuracy and compassion.

“Our goal is to uncover the truth while minimising harm and delivering fair, impartial and evidence-based investigations,” said Shelley Morgan, Joint Head of Investigations at ibex gale.

Through their specialised services in grievance and disciplinary investigation support, sexual harassment investigations, and whistleblowing and protected disclosure cases, ibex gale has become a trusted partner for organisations seeking both clarity and care in their internal processes. Their approach actively reduces re-traumatisation, ensures confidentiality, and allows employees to feel heard and respected, not interrogated.

This focus on trauma-informed HR investigations is more than best practice, it’s fast becoming a strategic necessity. Employers who take a purely procedural approach risk not only flawed outcomes, but reputational damage, legal liability and internal distrust. Recent cases across healthcare, education and the charity sector have highlighted the consequences of poorly managed investigations, with significant fallout for both staff and leadership.

ibex gale supports clients ranging from SMEs to FTSE-listed firms, often stepping in when internal teams are too close to the issue or lack the specialist expertise required. Their work spans investigations, employee relations, culture, change and governance and assurance.

Crucially, they offer a fresh, people-first methodology for handling bullying, harassment and discrimination investigations, helping businesses maintain fairness while managing risk. 

As public scrutiny grows around how organisations handle complaints, there is increasing pressure for employers to move beyond ‘tick-box’ HR responses and adopt more thoughtful, values-led practices. In this environment, ibex gale’s trauma-informed investigation approach offers more than legal defensibility; it builds trust.

Whether an investigation involves senior leadership, safeguarding concerns, or long-running internal disputes, the team at ibex gale brings clarity, independence and care to every step of the process.

About ibex gale

ibex gale is a specialist consultancy of HR professionals and former employment lawyers, with expertise in workplace investigations, employee relations, workplace culture, change management, and governance. Committed to trauma-informed practices and psychological safety, ibex gale partners with organisations to deliver investigations that combine professional rigour with compassion.

A new national campaign has launched today with the aim of driving meaningful reform across the UK’s private security sector. Through its new public website, www.csir.uk, the Campaign for Security Industry Reform (CSIR) is seeking to raise awareness, support professionalisation, and encourage government action to strengthen regulation where public safety is at stake.

“Public safety is the reason the security industry is regulated at all. Security officers are now expected to deal with serious violence, terrorism risks, safeguarding, medical emergencies and complex technology. Public safety must be matched by proper regulation of businesses, specialist roles and professional standards.”

The Security Industry Authority was created to protect the public under the Private Security Industry Act 2001, and this responsibility remains central to its role. Licensed security officers operate daily across critical environments such as healthcare facilities, transport networks, retail centres, workplaces and public venues. The standard of protection they provide is shaped directly by the regulatory framework governing the industry.

The timing of the campaign aligns with the SIA’s scheduled five-year review of licence-linked qualifications. This wide-ranging review will examine training in areas including core operational skills, public safety competencies, counter-terrorism awareness, searching methods, spiking prevention, first aid, English language requirements, and the quality and reliability of assessment systems. Engagement with stakeholders is set to continue into early 2026, with new standards expected to be implemented in 2027.¹

CSIR has welcomed the review as an important opportunity to improve standards, but has emphasised that training reform alone will not address deeper regulatory imbalances. According to the most recent SIA figures, more than half a million licensed individuals are held to stringent personal requirements, while the businesses that deploy them remain largely unregulated at company level.

The campaign highlights several long-standing gaps that have a direct impact on public safety, including:

•    The absence of a business licensing regime
• The continued use of the “in-house” exemption
• The lack of a regulatory process for specialist roles such as dog handlers and security consultants
• Weak oversight of poor-quality training providers
• New public safety risks linked to technology, AI, body-worn cameras and data handling use by non-compliant firms and operatives
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CSIR also links industry reform to wider national safety concerns, including the findings of the Manchester Arena Inquiry and the forthcoming Terrorism (Protection of Premises) legislation, commonly known as Martyn’s Law. These developments reflect the growing responsibility placed on private security staff in public-facing roles.

The CSIR.uk website is designed as an open, copyright-free public resource and a platform to raise awareness of other initiatives current in progress to raise security industry standards. It provides short, accessible explainers on key reform issues, links to credible sources, and campaign material that can be freely shared. The site will also host downloadable letters for members of the public and security workers to send to their MPs.

The Campaign for Security Industry Reform will continue to publish regular updates, briefings and public information.

For more information, visit: www.csir.uk