It costs £50 to join ARDL as a member and the membership period runs from January to December each year. You can join at any point during the membership period but your membership will need to be renewed the following January. If you are interested in ARDL membership please click here.
Membership gives many benefits including:
- Free attendance at seminars
- Access to the archive of materials from previous seminars
- The ARDL quarterly bulletin
- Opportunity to apply for tickets for the ARDL dinner and annual conference
- Junior members also have access to ARDL’s mentoring scheme and other Junior ARDL events
Seminars are usually held in London, Manchester and Edinburgh and there are several in each location every year.
Please follow this link for details of forthcoming seminars.
ARDL holds an AGM each year at the end of April when committee members are elected. Advance notice is given to all members of this meeting and only those members who attend in person are able to vote.
Candidates need five ARDL members to support their nomination, at least two of who should work in an organisation outside of the organisation that the candidate works in.
Five committee members are elected each year and serve a two year term. Up to five committee members can be co-opted at any one time.
ARDL membership is required to book a place on a seminar. When bookings open for a seminar, members will be sent an email that directs them to the members only area of the website to book a place.
You need to be a member of ARDL to apply to buy tickets for the annual dinner, which is held in the summer of each year. If you are a member you will be sent an email with details of how to apply. Please see the following link for details of the ARDL dinner.
By logging in to your ARDL account. Existing memberships will need to be renewed in January. If your membership has not been renewed by the end of January you should receive a prompt to ‘become a member’ when signing in. We will also send email reminders to all members. If you do not receive this please email ardl@blakemorgan.co.uk
Complete the application form on our ‘sign-up’ page: https://www.ardl.org.uk/sign-up/. You can either pay by card or PayPal or choose ‘cheque’ which should then be sent to ARDL c/o Blake Morgan, Tollgate, chandler’s Ford, Hants. SO53 3LG.
If you wish to pay by BACs please choose ‘cheque’ and email ‘ardl@blakemorgan.co.uk’
If you require an invoice please choose cheque as your payment type and then email ardl@blakemorgan.co.uk to request an invoice.
Yes – if you choose PayPal as the payment option you will be given the option to pay by card.
If you would like to renew several memberships at once, please send a list of the members you wish to renew to ardl@blakemorgan.co.uk. If anyone on the list is a new member who does not currently have an ARDL account, please ensure they are signed up via the ‘sign-up’ page first. Please choose ‘cheque’ as the payment option and their membership fee will be included in the invoice.
Currently our virtual seminars are not recorded. We do however publish the slides used to the resources area of our website.
If you are unable to add a ticket to your basket this usually means the event is fully booked.
Please send the wording of the opportunity and a copy of your logo to ardl@blakemorgan.co.uk Please include a link for more information and where to apply. There is no cost for this service.