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.
6-453: The Magistrates' Association is the membership organisation for magistrates in England and Wales . By virtue of its education and training functions it is a charitable organisation and is funded by its members to promote the magistracy. The idea of forming an association of magistrates came from a Derby magistrate, Alderman Wilkins, in 1920. The inaugural meeting of the association
12-589: A royal charter in October 1962. The association was established to: Since 1969, it has helped to develop various sentencing guidelines. It also organises conferences and publishes a magazine, Magistrate . Members also participate in local branch activities. The governing body is the Board of Trustees. A Council advises the Board. Various standing committees are populated by association members and focus on specific areas of magistrates' activities. The current chair
18-471: 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
24-564: Is Mark Beattie JP. The association publishes a magazine, Magistrate (formerly The Magistrate ), several times each year. It has also issued a number of reports which are available from its website. A book The Magistracy at the Crossroads was published by Waterside Press in 2012. 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
30-573: 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
36-777: Was held at Central Hall, Westminster , on 28 October 1921. Lord Haldane was elected the association's first president. Thereafter the Lord Chancellor of the day was president, but when the role of the Lord Chancellor changed with the passing of the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 the Lord Chief Justice took on the role. By 1945, membership had grown to 5,288 members, and it had 16,354 at its fiftieth Anniversary in 1970. Today, it represents over 80% of active magistrates. It received
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