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HOW TO JOIN THE MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT NETWORK

Independent Specialists
in Management, Governance and Organisational Development
with Voluntary Organisations

MDN membership is open to individuals based in the UK who meet all the following criteria:

Independent: they are independent of the organisations to which they provide consultancy or training.
Self-employed: their work is done primarily on a freelance or self-employed basis. This also includes members of workers' co-operatives, partners in a partnership, and individuals who have set up their own limited company to carry out their business.
Specialising in and prioritising work with charities and other voluntary organisations: they work exclusively or primarily with voluntary organisations/NGOs (rather than the public sector, or small businesses, social enterprises or other bodies which have a proft motive even if the profit is to be used for good causes).
Focus on organisational, governance and management development in voluntary organisations: the focus of their work is on management, governance and organisational development issues such as governance, planning, quality, evaluation, roles, organisational structures, working relationships, organisational cultures, or systems and procedures for managing people, work, money or information. Specialisms such as fundraising, marketing and public relations are less likely to be appropriate.
Established: they have met all the above criteria for two years or more.

COST

There are two types of charge:

An annual fee of £20 per member (for the year from 1 October to 30 September), to cover mailings; invitations to all MDN events; copies of handouts from MDN events; administrative costs; inclusion in the list of members, regional index, and management and sector specialism indexes on the MDN website; an individual page on the MDN website; and details of training and consultancy work opportunities that are notified to MDN.
A charge for seminars, workshops and other events. This covers lunch, refreshments and special papers and is typically £35-50 for an all-day event, or £20-25 for a half-day or evening event. In 2010/11 there is a travel subsidy of up to Ł40 for attendance at events in London for members who live outside the M25, and for attendance at events in Bristol and Edinburgh for members who live more than 25 miles from the centre of those cities.

Members who have resigned because they no longer meet the membership criteria continue to be invited to most MDN events. The fee to attend events is slightly higher than for members.

HOW TO JOIN

If you meet the membership criteria, print out the application form and send it to MDN with the annual fee and the supporting information requested on the form. The address is below.

If you are not sure whether you meet the criteria, please contact Bill Seary on 020 8133 7811 to discuss your situation.

If you meet the criteria but are not certain about whether you want to join, you will be welcome to attend one of our seminars or workshops, on payment of the charge for the event. To arrange this please contact Shirley Otto on 0131 228 6267.

If you have not yet been a freelance management consultant or trainer in the voluntary sector for two years, you can let us know when you will meet the two-year requirement, and we will send you a reminder at that time.

DECISION-MAKING AND ADMINISTRATION

The Management Development Network is an unincorporated association, with major decisions provisionally made at members' meetings and confirmed through a referendum of members. Meetings are generally held twice a year, immediately after seminars or other events.

Members based in Scotland and in South West England meet separately as MDN in Scotland and MDN South West, and organise separate programmes of events. These events are open to all MDN members, regardless of where they live.

Members in other areas are encouraged to organise events locally.

MDN is administered on a voluntary basis by three "convenors" who are longstanding MDN members. Current convenors are Sandy Adirondack (publications and administration), Shirley Otto (MDN in Scotland, and London events), and Bill Seary (membership). Lin Whitfield and Lori Streich organised events in the South West.

For further information contact
MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT NETWORK
c/o 39 Gabriel House, 10 Odessa Street, London SE16 7HQ
tel 020 7232 0726
fax 020 7237 8117
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Management Development Network