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Strategic Alliances

The FMA works with a number of leading organisations allied to the FM industry and we have developed memorandum of understanding with the following organisations:

• British Association of Removers

• British Council of Shopping Centres

• British Hospitality Association

• British Institute of Facilities Management

• Cleaning and Support Services Association

• The Facilities Management Forum

• The FM Charity Network Forum

• The Facilities Society

• Mobile Data Association

The British Association of Removers

The Commercial Moving Group (CMG) is a dedicated group of companies within the British Association of Removers (BAR) that specialises in all aspects of commercial relocations. All CMG Members have the BS 8522 - Commercial Moving Standard in place.

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Why use a BAR remover?

BAR represents the leading professional removal and storage companies in the UK who each work to an OFT-approved Code of Practice.

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British Institute of Facilities Management
BIFM is the ‘natural home’ of facilities management in the UK. Founded in 1993, the Institute provides information, education, training and networking services for over 12,000 members – both individual professionals and organisations.

The Institute is inclusive, working across related disciplines and forming alliances with like-minded professional bodies. Increasingly international in outlook, the BIFM is a founding member of both EuroFM and Global FM.
www.bifm.org.uk

Chartered Management Institute
In 2007, the Facilities Management Association and the Chartered Management Institute signed a Memorandum of Understanding designed to raise the profile of FM and to give all those working in the sector the opportunity to reap the rewards that Chartered Manager status can bring.

The Chartered Manager designation (CMgr) is awarded by the CMI to men and women who are qualified in management and who can show how they have used their leadership and change management skills to ‘make a significant difference’ in their organisation. The benefits to individuals of Chartered Manager status include: parity of status with other chartered professionals, a recognised and distinctive qualification, and enhanced career prospects.

FMA member companies have the opportunity to nominate suitably experienced managers for assessment under the CMgr programme. The process typically takes 20 hours and is only available via the Institute. The cost is £550 + vat (for Institute members) or £680 + vat (for non-members).

Employers can also work with the Institute to accredit their own management development programmes. An accredited in-house programme enables member company managers to achieve nationally recognised professional qualifications and go on to secure Chartered Manager status.

The benefits to your organisation can include:
- Aligning your management development programme with the Chartered Manager framework enables you to see not just that learning has taken place, but that it has been applied to achieve positive impact in the organisation
- The Chartered Manager programme stimulates a stronger performance culture
- Increasing the number of Chartered professionals in your organisation can help differentiate you in competitive bid situations
- Professional status opportunities can make employment in the FM sector an increasingly attractive proposition for new recruits
- Chartered Manager status can help achieve parity of esteem for your managers in comparison with other professionals.

To find out more about Chartered Managers in FM, contact us.

The Facilities Management Forum

The Facilities Management Forum brings all links of the FM supply chain together to discuss potential business opportunities in a series of scheduled & confidential face to face meetings.

Held in a luxury hotel over 36 hours, the FM Forum provides a platform for new business development by introducing national FM suppliers to corporate FM procurement delegates who are seeking new solutions to their company’s needs.

All procurement delegates are qualified as to their projects, responsibility and reason to attend the Forum before their application is confirmed.

Likened to ‘corporate speed dating’, the end user buyers select to meet with supporting FM suppliers who can offer an answer to their particular requirements and projects. Similarly, the suppliers are asked to define with whom they would wish to engage.

All the meeting requests are collated before the event, so prior to attending all supporters know who and at what time they are meeting their prospective business partners. There is also the opportunity to meet with all attendees between the scheduled meetings, during the group lunch and the organised networking dinner.

The FM Forum provides a distraction free environment to build relationships and focuses solely on a business agenda.

For further information, visit: www.forumevents.co.uk

or contact: Graham Price on 01992 374065 - g.price@forumevents.co.uk

The FM Charity Network Forum
The FM Charity Network Forum www.fmcharitynetworkforum.co.uk is a free-to-join membership association. The Forum, which currently has in excess of 60 members, is open to all Heads of Facilities, Facilities Managers, Office/Administration Managers and any other role involving FM within the charity sector, providing a collective FM focal point and promoting networking and FM professionalism within charities.

The FM Charity Network Forum meets quarterly to provide opportunities to explore cost saving synergies amongst its members, knowledge sharing, support and co-operation and offers prompt and practical solutions to members' problems, queries and issues.

Martin Pickard of FM Guru and The Asset Faculty has been actively involved with the forum in his capacity as its Patron. The FM Charity Network Forum is also supported by Lisanne Schloss, Vice President Property Services, Morgan Stanley, Oliver Jones, CEO and co-founder of The Asset Factor, Matthew Punshon, Operations Director and co-founder of The Asset Factor and Lucy Jeynes, Managing Director of Larch Consulting.

For further information, contact: andy_christophi@shelter.org.uk or yasmin_knowles@shelter.org.uk

The Facilities Society

The Facilities Society promotes interdisciplinary work and study into the creation, upgrading, operation and sustainment of constructed facilities of all kinds. The Society is a not-for-profit body founded for the purpose of supporting UK businesses and the academic community. Its activities are concentrated in two areas: learning and practice, and knowledge and research.

Learning and practice: The Society offers courses and corporate programmes in a number of discipline and subject areas based on the blended learning model. State-of-the-art online content delivery, interactive in-company workshops and assignments are used to apply learning directly in the workplace. FMA members have the benefit of a preferential rate on all courses and programmes.

Knowledge and research: The Society publishes a series of research papers and invites contributions from FMA members in the form of case studies. These can be based on the author’s own work in the form of a complete paper or, depending on the subject matter, as a joint publication with The Society’s research team.

For more information, visit The Facilities Society at www.facilities.ac.uk, email enquiry@facilities.ac.uk, call 01865 522067 or fax 01865 389578.

Mobile Data Association
The Mobile Data Association (MDA) is the not-for-profit industry association dedicated to represent and promote all mobile data centric businesses. THe FMA and MDA have agreed to work together to increase opportunities for and provide better service to their respective members.
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