The jam packed programme developed especially for membership organisations included:

• PARN’s own research into vocational learning
• Case studies surrounding both Ofqual and prior experiential learning accreditation
• A lively debate about whether or not professionals need a degree

Pixl8 will be exhibiting at another exciting PARN event later in the year, find out more about it here.

The day was a great success, with almost 100 representatives attending from a wide range of trade associations.  Tim and myself were fortunate enough to have lots of thought provoking conversations with a number of the delegates around website design, membership database integration and the benefits of mobile templates.

In addition to the networking with all the delegates, the talks were really something to write home about.  John Piennar, BBC Radio 5 Live's Chief Political Correspondent was a fantastic and very comical event chair person.  Lord Heseltine’s speech was also a real treat, speaking of his opinions around how trade associations should merge to form larger more influential organisations. This way he believes they would have more lobbying powers when it comes to representing their members on new government policies for example.

If you’re a trade association and want get involved with the Trade Association Forum, check out their website here for membership details.

If that isn’t already enough, we’ve confirmed our presence at two further membership events in the coming months:

NFP Technology
Thu 29th September, Business Design Centre, London

PARN - Future-proofing your Professional Body
Thu 10th November, Woburn House, London

Please try and make it along, and we'll be more than happy to assist in any website or mobile questions, along with demonstrations of our membership focused products and services.

Also Sue Froggatt, a leading membership sector trainer and consultant will be holding another one of her fantastic seminars around retention and recruitment, please see details below:

100 Great Member Recruitment and Retention Ideas
Thu 29th September, Bloomsbury Hotel, London

Our dedicated events team (Jonny, Gavin and Tim) successfully sorted out a nice venue, the Anchor pub overlooking the Thames along with fancy decorations, canapés, a cake and even our very own pianist!  A whole heap of our fantastic clients were able to make it along with the vast majority of our UK team.

The event was a great success, and we’re happy to report that despite the free bar, everyone remained standing!  We had some great feedback from people, informing us of their appreciation as to the many networking opportunities that the party provided.  It seemed that everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves, and this was truly demonstrated by the fact that many remained chatting until almost closing time.

This party is just the start of many events that Pixl8 plan to host and attend this coming year.  Stay tuned for more events coming soon...