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Annual Subscriptions 2014

Edmund Nickless writes: At its meeting on 16 April Council agreed to recommend to the Fellowship for approval at the AGM the subscription rates for 2014 shown (below).  These professional fees can be offset against tax, and a table showing the effective cost after tax relief will be posted on this website shortly.

The annual increase in CPI at the end of February 2013 was 2.8%.  It is proposed to increase fees below inflation by an average of 1.8% overall.  Council believes that it is better to make small annual adjustments, given that the subscription income lags behind inflation, rather than risk the possibility of significant future subscription increases to meet the costs of providing Fellowship services.

Recognising that they are the future of the Society and we must attract and retain them, Council further proposes that there should be no increase to the Junior Candidate Fellow and Candidate Fellow fees.

Chartership validation and annual registration fees no longer cover the full cost of providing those services and Council proposes to raise the validation fee incrementally over a three year period to £85 (2014), £95 (2015) and £100 (2016) and the annual registration fee to £35 (2014), £42 (2015) and £48 (2016).