How does it operate?
The Institute has individual members all over the world (click here to see an analysis of the Institute’s world-wide membership). Where these are most numerous - Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Southern Africa and the United Kingdom - national sections are constituted as ‘not-for-profit’ organisations. These sections co-ordinate countrywide programmes which are largely centred on the activities of locally based branches or groups. Most recently, the overseas branches in Australia, New Zealand and Southern Africa have become Affiliated National Institutes or Branches and exercise considerable independence (see the Contact Us page).
These branches are run by an elected committee and they arrange their own programme of meetings, visits and social events and are represented on the national committee or council. Also it goes without saying that branch officers are always pleased to see new faces at their meetings, seminars, dinners etc it which a warm welcome is extended to everyone.
The largest membership group remains in the UK, where the Institute was founded in 1917, today it has some 3,000 members throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. For more information about branches in the UK, click here.
Australia, with 1,300 members, constitutes the largest group in the Pacific region and close ties are maintained with their neighbours in New Zealand and Malaysia, which both have around 350 members. To the north, 150 members are based in Hong Kong, operating both in the territory and the adjacent area of the People’s Republic of China. The Institute’s activities in southern Africa are centred on South Africa which provides support for members in other countries of the region.
Liaison at international level takes place through a newly-formed Presidents’ Committee meeting annually in conjunction with one of the national conferences.
In the UK
Committee structure…
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