We will be running our first AGM on Friday the 5th of February 2010 at Brooklands
Museum, Weybridge, Surrey (the home of British aviation and motor racing www.brooklandsmuseum.com).
We invite members to accept our hospitality and make an enjoyable weekend break
of the event by staying at the nearby Shepperton
Holiday Inn where we will hold the AGM dinner and dance on the Friday night.
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It's been a busy time for the UK Fire Association
in our first year.
Getting the organisation up and running included:
- Forming a limited company
- Setting up a bank account
- Finding people to run it
- Finding companies who wanted to join it
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Well the first two things were easy enough. A limited company to protect our members
was available off the shelf and the bank (though unwilling at first) agreed to
give us a 'fee free' account providing that we ran the association for little
or no financial gain. Finding people to run it
.. well there's always a few mugs
like us around, working for nothing, listening to endless problems from folk,
etc. etc.
not much different from running any other business really, I'm sure
that you have all been there at some time or other. The last point i.e. 'Finding
companies who wanted to join us' was the one we feared most. If no-one joined
then we would have looked a bit silly. If only a few people had shown any interest
then we probably couldn't have afforded to run it. Let's face it no-one like's
to look like a complete fool and that's what we faced if it all went wrong. We
calculated that we really needed to get around thirty to thirty five member companies
in our first year to make this feasible, were there enough people of principle
who were brave (or foolhardy) enough to put their trust in a completely new organisation
that embraced honest, low running costs and a simple straightforward 'non big
brother' attitude to its members
It seems that there were.
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THE EXTINGUISHER SERVICING CODE OF PRACTICE
Author: Alan Palmer
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 Welcome to the newly formed UK Fire Association. It is an exciting time to be
in the fire protection industry and I am enjoying being involved with my colleagues
running the UK Fire Association. My thanks go to Perry Leaver who put so much
time last year into establishing this organisation.
From the feedback we are receiving, the fire industry has long been waiting an association like this! We are going to build this association using every ones knowledge and experience. I alone have over 30 years experience within the fire industry so imagine what we can achieve if we all pool our expertise and experience together. We want to assemble a regionally represented Steering Group so that varying factors affecting business in the different parts of the UK can be taken into consideration.
Ultimately we want to help members who want up to date technical support and industry news that affects them. The support will be available to help members wanting to digress into new markets that compliment the one(s) they are already in e.g. helping a fire alarms company move into extinguishers or residential fire sprinkler systems or dry risers or fire risk assessments, etc.
Join us now, then attend a meeting, read the emails and be proud to have the UK
Fire Association logo on the bottom of your paperwork, I am. I will be pleased
to receive your news, views and ideas at chairman@uk-fa.org.
Membership costs just £200 per annum, the joining fee of £75 is being
temporarily waived. BAFE Scheme SP101 accredited companies and members of FIA,
IFEDA and BFC will be accepted through the fast track joining process without
needing to go through auditing (however we do reserve the right to audit any prospective
member). Companies that have recently resigned membership of one of these trade
associations may still qualify for fast track membership contact the Secretary
for information.
Alan Price
Chairman
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The Inaugural General Meeting was held on Thursday 9th July 2009.
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