NWTTA is an influential organisation with a membership covering all aspects of the timber trade as well as associated sectors. NWTTA is affiliated to the Timber Development UK [TTF founded 1892] and works with defined standards of trading in wood products on which customers can rely and to which members are held accountable.
All members of TDUK are committed to trading only in legally sourced timber as a minimum requirement. It is a condition of TDUK membership that all member companies conduct annual audited due diligence surveys on all their supply sources to ensure this is the case. This is done using either the TDUK’s own survey framework, the Responsible Purchasing Policy, or the members’ own externally audited approved due diligence system. In the over-riding majority of cases members’ supplies are from legal and sustainable sources and meet either FSC or PEFC chain of custody requirements.