LARIA has three types of membership:

ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP

This is open to anyone working in research and intelligence for a local authority, or in an allied field. It is free of charge. It entitles individuals to receive three issues of LariaNews per year, plus details of LARIA events and publications. Associate Members may not vote or stand for office. Even though Associate Membership is free it is still necessary to register by completing and returning the membership application form.

FULL MEMBERSHIP

This is also open to anyone working in research and intelligence for a local authority, or in an allied field. It costs £5 per calendar year. Full Members may vote at the AGM or other general meetings and stand for office. They, too, receive three issues of LariaNews per year, plus details of LARIA events and publications. Full Members are not entitled to discounts on LARIA events and publications unless they are also working for organisations that are Corporate Members (see below).

CORPORATE MEMBERSHIP

This is available for local authorities and other allied organisations. It costs £60 per calendar year (£40 for remainder of calendar year for applications received after 1st July) . Corporate Members receive up to three copies of the three issues of LariaNews each year. They are also entitled to discounts on the price of attending any LARIA event for any staff currently in their employment, to discounts on the prices of LARIA publications and to display at no cost job adverts on the LARIA web site. Corporate Members do not have voting rights (except individuals who are also Full Members). Corporate Members must name a principal contact, together with up to two other named contacts who will all receive LariaNews.

For a list of all Corporate Members of LARIA - please click here

All Members (Full, Associate or Corporate) are welcome to participate in the activities of LARIA via its various activity groups, but only Full Members may vote or become Officers of the Association. Individuals in organisations that are Corporate Members can also become Full Members upon payment of the appropriate subscription.

RESEARCH CONTACTS LIST

One of the aims of LARIA is to encourage networking amongst local government researchers, and one way of helping to achieve that is by the publication of a list of research contacts in local authorities and in other organisations where local government research is undertaken. LARIA has therefore decided to make available to its members, extracts from its membership list.

The Research Contacts List (available in Excel format) contains the name, job title, department, organisation, telephone number and research interests of LARIA members (where approval of publication has been given). The listing is intended to help LARIA members make contact with other researchers with similar interests. It is not intended as a mailing list for commercial purposes (no postal or email addresses are contained on the file, only telephone numbers). It is available only to LARIA members, whether they be Full Members, Associate Members or named under Corporate Membership. It will be updated regularly. The Research Contacts List can be obtained free of charge from Doris Besford, the LARIA Administrator on request admin@laria.gov.uk

APPLICATION FORM

If you would like to become a LARIA Member, you can apply for membership by downloading the application form in Word (.doc) format here.

You can print out the application form, complete it and return it by post. Or you can return it electronically by completing the document in your web browser, saving it to your desktop using your name, or Company name, as the filename, and sending it as an e-mail attachment to the LARIA Administrator.

n.b. You must have MS Office to apply for membership online. If you require an application form to be sent to you, please contact the LARIA Administrator

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