27th September 2012, 09:07 AM
Jack Wrote:from my experience of chartered societies.
should definitely be free.
In your previous experience of chartered organisations exactly what percentage of them were free to join?
I'm not at all sure about chartered status for the IfA as I fear it will further drive a wedge between those at the top (chartered manager-level) and those at the bottom (everyone else). Look at the figures of membership - why are there proportionally so many more MIfAs than any other level? Is it to do with the constant instability of PIfA and AIfA level member's jobs and therefore their fluctuating ability to remain members? I see from the recent magazine that membership numbers (i.e. those given out to members) are now some way over 6000. Yet the list members by level given earlier in this thread only listed about 3-4000. Where have all the rest gone? I fear that there is a silent majority of members who join (perhaps because an employer offers to pay) but only remain a member as long as they are employed, i.e. not very long. They are the ones who have virtually no voice in the organisation but need to be listened to the most. Just a thought.