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When the Racehorse Owners’ Association (ROA) launched its new website, one of its objectives was to better engage with the audience whose average age is in the ‘late 50s’. At the start of the project the ROA had just 1,000 member email addresses – it now has 4,000 on the database. And unique visits to the site average over 3,200 per month, with the average visit lasting three minutes. More

Represnting your sector and members interests is important and MemCom found it interesting to review what professional associations have been consulted on recently. Here is a selection from the last 12 months: More

Health Policy and Technology (HPT), a new journal from the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine (FPM), has been launched in March 2012 as a cross-disciplinary journal.  More

Memcom learns of bodies uniting in a common cause. They have asked Thames Water to provide concessions to allow landscape businesses to continue to use hosepipes in the delivery of their business, and to allow for newly laid turf and plants to be watered in for 28 days More

With law firms specialising in providing support in this area MemCom wonders how much of a concern this should be for membership bodies? More

Through their on-line news service Economia’ the ICAEW had their finger on the pulse and even ran a webinar at 4pm on budget day to discuss key issues.They said - The positive tone of the Budget is good news for business. Osborne reiterated that he sees the contribution of the private sector as fundamental to the recovery of the UK economy.  More

For the second year running, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has been judged as one of the best companies to work for in the UK.and was the only trade union and professional association to feature on the annual Sunday Times Best Companies list. Overall, the RCN was awarded 21st place out of the top 100 not for profit companies to work for across the UK.  More

The Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) announces the appointment of its new Chief Executive, Charles Elvin. Charles joins ILM on Monday 6 February 2012, from the Open University where he was the Director of the Business to Business Division. More

Since the launch of the new web site we are reaching 2000 visits per month with the first week of March attracting 500 unique visitors. The site is increasingly being used by membership marketers as a source of information. In our niche market we are seeing exciting growth and interaction  More

With over 3,500 responses from over 91 countries the CIM’s member survey throws up some interesting results      More