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Built by hand. By the North East.

A family-built firm. Every trade on the books. One number, one team, one accountable contractor from quote to handover.

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The ATKINSONS team talking through a job with a customer
Our story

We started small. We grew the right way.

One van. One phone. One promise: turn up when we said we would, do the job properly, and don't leave until the customer was happy. That's the whole pitch.

Within a few years we'd grown across the whole North East. Not by acquiring anyone. Not by undercutting anyone. By keeping the trades in-house, keeping the standards up, and keeping the phones manned.

Now we're the biggest and busiest all-trades firm in the region. Same family. Same values. More vans.

  • 9+ trades employed in-house
  • 20+ branded vans on North East roads
  • Two sites: Durham HQ and Sunderland
  • Emergency line out of hours
What we believe

Four things. Non-negotiable.

Most of what we do is just doing the job properly. But there are rules we won't break, regardless of the price tag.

01

No subbies. Ever.

The trades on your job work for ATKINSONS. No middlemen, no margin-stacking, no "the guy will be there Tuesday".

02

One Contracts Manager

Same person from mobilisation to handover. Named, accountable, reachable. Daily site visits.

03

Emergency line out of hours

Out of hours, weekends and bank holidays: same number. Someone picks up. Someone helps. Burst pipes don't wait for office hours.

04

Built once. Built right.

Cut a corner once and you'll have to come back. We'd rather do the job properly the first time and move on.

ATKINSONS tradesman in branded workwear
A note from the founder

Built for people we know.

"I started ATKINSONS because finding a builder you could actually trust in the North East was harder than it should have been. Too many firms over-promise, under-deliver, then disappear halfway through the job.

We hire local. We train local. We sponsor local. The people on your job grew up round here. They take it personally when the work isn't right because their name's on the van."

Dale Atkinson — Founder & Managing Director

    Got a job?

    Tell us. We'll come and look.

    Whatever the brief, the route in is the same: ring us, we'll visit, we'll come back with a fixed price in plain English. Free site visits across the whole North East.

    Mon to Fri 8am–5pm · Sat 9am–1pm 0191 369 2405

    Or email enquiries@atkinsonsgroup.co.uk

    No call-out charge for quotes. Fixed prices, in writing.