By Kerrie Fuller Associate Director of Engagement MemberWise Network There is a concern that membership is a dying concept in the 21st century. The younger generation are proving a stubborn audience to engage and we are all becoming ‘on demand’ consumers; able to purchase products and services that meet our needs as and when we [...]
By Kerrie Fuller Associate Director of Engagement MemberWise Network As part of our series of articles on key segments of the Membership Sector, in this article we focus on Students’ Unions (SU). There are over 600 students’ unions in the UK, the first being created in 1884 at Edinburgh University. Their role is to lobby, [...]
By Kerrie Fuller Associate Director of Engagement MemberWise Network As part of our series of articles on key segments of the Membership Sector, in this article we focus on Private Members' Clubs. Private Members’ Clubs are unique in that the concept of a ‘private club’ is an old one (the oldest dates from 1693) and [...]
By Kerrie Fuller Associate Director of Engagement MemberWise Network Sport England recognise 155 National Sports Bodies in the UK – set up to be the governing body for every sport that you can think of, however small. Sport England is the public body that invests funding into these sports bodies and works with them to [...]
By Kerrie Fuller Associate Director of Engagement MemberWise Network A delegation from the New South Wales Business Chamber were over in the UK collecting best practice from the membership sector and in return, gave us an insight into their membership strategy. In this article we share the top 5 lessons we can learn from this [...]
By Kerrie Fuller Associate Director of Engagement MemberWise Network Membership of political parties has been in steady decline since its peak in the early 1950s. As a (overdue) response to this, in 2018, three academics were funded to research key trends and issues with political party membership. Here are the top 5 lessons we can [...]
Following the launch of The UK Membership Sector: Introducing Our Scale & the 100 Largest Membership Bodies blog article we are pleased to announce the launch of a sub list of the 10 Largest UK Professional Bodies. Two thirds of MemberWise Network’s 5,000+ members work within professional bodies, so we thought it would be [...]
