Brightelm – Association Event Specialists

Event services for associations and membership organisations.  We can fill in any gaps of your existing team, or support you to improve your members experience and project management effectiveness.

Brightelm is an agile team, known for being innovative & passionate about sustainability, providing the following services for clients globally:

• Virtual  and In Person Event Management
• Project management – including finance
• Sponsorship – consultancy, design and acquisition
• Event marketing
• Exhibition management
• Programme management – scheduling, abstracts, & speaker management
• Delegate services – registration, housing, accommodation and technology
• Logistics – venues, catering, staffing
• Event production

We are experts in our field. Does your event need us?
Email and say hello@brightelm.co.uk to discuss it.

Guild is the platform for professional groups, networks and communities.

Guild is used by membership organisations and associations like the CIPD, The Marketing Society, PRCA, CIPR, PPA, NEU and many more to engage their members and harness the power of their professional communities.

Easy to use, like a consumer messaging app, but purpose-built for professionals to connect, communicate and collaborate in a trusted environment.

With no ads, GDPR compliance, admin, analytics, integrations and dedicated customer support, Guild is the choice of organisations wanting to engage their members, prospects, customers and stakeholders.

Guild allows you to:

• Improve member engagement to drive retention
• Engage all year round with always on digital communication, connection and collaboration
• Continue the conversations and networking beyond events
• Add value to sponsors and supporters
• Integrate Guild with your other tech platforms as required

Guild’s unique feature set includes:

• Mobile app AND web version
• Zapier / API for automations & integrations
• Admin, Moderator, Host user roles
• Unlimited group sizes
• Pin and feature conversations
• Make introductions between members
• Polls, Event listings
• Edit/delete your messages
• Email a message to yourself
• Mark threads as unread etc. etc.

Join the Trade Association Forum’s Guild community to see how it works as a member and contact us if you would like a demo for your association/membership organisation.

mnovate are experts in Microsoft Dynamics 365, delivering end to end CRM solutions for clients with different needs and challenges.

We love what we do and we love making our clients happy. Our experience of delivering Microsoft Dynamics based CRM solutions to member-focused and not-for-profit organisations spans over 12 years. We saw there were lots of partners and technologies out there who could be doing a much better job for their clients, and so we decided to build our own practice that keeps clients firmly at the centre of our world.

We help associations retain and grow their membership, focus and personalise communications, become more efficient, empower staff, greater insights and improve decision making. Modules include membership management, event management, groups and committees management, CPD and education management, finance management and marketing and communications. The complete membership CRM solution.

Dynamic Membership Management

Silverbear is proud to be the UK’s only certified Microsoft Dynamics 365 partner working exclusively with membership and non-profit organisations in the UK and Ireland.

Our trusted digital platform, built on Microsoft Dynamics 365, the Dataverse, and Azure, delivers world-class engagement to over seventy organisations serving 4.2 million members.  We securely manage over £440 million of subscriptions, donations, and payments every year to support the foundation of our clients’ memberships.

Specialist advisers to Trade Associations and Membership Bodies

Our nonprofit specialist team has over 20 years experience working with trade associations and membership bodies. We are regularly recognised for our work in the sector and have been awarded numerous accolades such as the award for:

• Large Innovation Firm of the Year at the British Accountancy Awards for our product KS Cohere. One of the unique products designed by our Digital Transformation team
• Responsible Workplace of the Year at the West London Business Awards
• Top firm for overall service in the latest Charity Finance Audit Survey, out of the leading top 10 charity specialist firms in England – an accolade we have now attained for the last seven years in a row.

The specialist team work with over 150 trade associations and membership bodies, including charitable organisations and professional bodies.

We regularly keep our clients up to date through our specialist hubs and through our newsletter Association Matters, specialist insights, and webinars.

Our wide range of services are designed to help our clients improve the efficiency of their organisation and take advantage of new opportunities.

These include:

• Audit
• Nonprofit Advisory
• Tax and VAT
• Nonprofit governance
• Corporate finance
• HR consultancy services
• Data privacy and cyber security
• Digital transformation
• Strategic growth services
• Business outsourcing
• Payroll

Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn and keep up to date with the latest news and events on our website.

To find out how we can help your organisation, please contact:

Janice Riches

Head of Trade Associations and Membership Bodies

Moore Kingston Smith

jriches@mks.co.uk

T: 020 4582 1000

Since 2003 we have been successfully recruiting for UK and EU trade associations. We are communications and advocacy headhunters appointing the people responsible for an association’s reputation and influence: its leadership, communications, public affairs and policy experts for permanent and interim roles.

No other recruitment supplier to the association sector has assembled as large a team of dedicated headhunters (including one with the only PhD in the world on the accountability of business associations), conducted more in-depth research into the association market, or successfully recruited for as many representative organisations as Ellwood Atfield.

Our promise is to connect the right people, smoothly and efficiently. Our purpose is to create important and lasting relationships.

Climate Action for Associations (CAFA), is a not-for-profit organisation that has been established specifically to convene and support trade and professional associations in their sustainable transition. CAFA provides continually evolving guidance, solutions and tools to help associations take proactive climate action both internally and to support members on their net zero journey.

We believe that by collectively embracing the power of trade and professional associations, industries, systems, professions and supply chains, we can achieve more faster. By joining and pledging to the CAFA Collective, we will provide the support associations need to take real action and will set them on a path to deliver additional, long-term value to its members, employees, key stakeholder and wider communities.

CAFA was founded by b2b, the membership experts who have worked in the membership and third sector globally for more than 20 years and more recently worked with international climate change NGOs and with leading sustainability experts.

oomi is a fully integrated engagement management system for the membership and not for profit sector combining CRM, website, collaboration, engagement & social media.

Our solutions have been developed on the back of over 30 years experience of operating in the NFP sector. oomi’s customers include professional membership bodies, trade associations and other nfp and charitable organisations.  These include the Nautical Institute, The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, the Healthcare Infection Society and, the British Parking Association, with whom oomi CRM  was shortlisted for the Memcom Best Use of Technology Award in 2021.

oomi has the widest range of modules specifically designed around the requirements of the membership and NFP sector. They deliver powerful functionality and can be tailored and configured to meet your organisation’s exact needs.

Our cloud-based, social CRM also gives you the flexibility to make changes that will adapt the system as your organisation changes – without the associated costs

oomi is the low risk, end to end CRM and website solution. We can build you a new website or integrate with your existing website to deliver a complete  solution for all of your CRM and website needs.

oomi is available anytime, on any device and truly agile for your changing organisational needs

Founded by industry experts in 2005, acceptcards¨ is trusted by many of the UK’s Challenger Banks, Membership Organisations & Trade Associations. Our ethos is simple, to provide all UK businesses with access to the best terms and solutions from the merchant services providers. Being an independent and privately owned business we are not tied to any provider, enabling us to be truly objective in the solutions we recommend and arrange for you. We can advise on all areas of card acceptance (chip & pin, mail/phone order and E-commerce).

We are a team of trusted association management experts with extensive experience in managing all aspects of national trade associations. You can use us for a full back office service or bespoke projects.