A membership organization is any organization that allows people or entities to subscribe, and often requires them to pay a membership fee or " subscription ". Membership organizations typically have a particular purpose, which involves connecting people together around a particular activity, geographical location, industry, activity, interest, mission, or profession. This might simply be to encourage or facilitate interaction and collaboration, but it also often involves promoting and enhancing the purpose itself.
4-774: The British-Soviet Friendship Society was a British membership organisation for the promotion of political and cultural links between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union . The society was active from 1946 to 1991, and was a successor to the groups Friends of the Soviet Union , established in 1930, the Russia Today Society (1934), and the Anglo-Soviet Friendship Committee (1940). From 1956 to 1990, it published
8-471: A main parent organization that is made up of chapters, clubs, or regions. Types of membership organization include professional associations , trade associations , voluntary associations , political parties , clubs , and a wide range of others. Membership organizations may rely on membership software to provide services to their members through the Internet. This organization-related article
12-842: A monthly or bimonthly journal British-Soviet Friendship , retitled BSFS Journal in 1990. In 1952 the society visited the Soviet Union. The society's papers are held at the Marx Memorial Library , while the University of Hull 's archives hold papers relating to the society's 1952 trip to the Soviet Union. This article about an organisation in the United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Membership organisation Membership organizations are often not for profit , but there are also many commercially-run membership organizations, and some larger not for profit membership organizations (like
16-510: The National Trust in the United Kingdom ) which have commercial subsidiaries. They vary in size from very small voluntary associations , which may not be formally established, to very large nationally or internationally renowned organizations, like the aforementioned National Trust, which had 3.7 million members in 2010, each paying about £50 per year. Some of these membership organizations are referred to as multi-chapters if they have
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