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Please click here to download the UKGSA Membership Application Form
When complete please return to: UK Gasket & Sealing Association, 44 Moatbrook Avenue, Codsall, South Staffordshire WV8 1DH
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We have added even more benefits to being a UKGSA Member!
We have teamed up with Joined Up Thinking and launched our very own ‘Buying Group’ to make available cost savings to all UKGSA members. They have a database of hundreds of suppliers and thousands of products and services and constantly benchmark deals to make sure our members will always receive the very best value for money.
They can help with just about everything you purchase, from fuel cards, stationery, utilities, insurance, pest control and coffee machines – and everything in between!
Most (if not all!) of the deals sourced for you are exclusively available to our association members, and are not available to single stand-alone businesses. Also, they will be very soon adding more new products and services just for our members, so please keep checking back!
As a member of UKGSA you can list free of charge on the portal your company should you so wish. If so, just drop us an email.
What’s more, they have agreed that you can use their ‘Invoice Watch’ service free of charge as many times as you like. All you have to do is send them a copy invoice for a recent product or service you have purchased, and they will check to make sure you received the best value for money.
At the very least, the research they carry out for you will show if you currently buy at the right price, and if you should consider changing suppliers!
They are also happy to help source any products or services for us that may not already be listed - just drop them a note at any time.
Full details can be found on our new secure portal at ukgsportal.co.uk. It is password protected, but just click the link in the homepage to order yours now.
Their services are 100% free of charge to our members and 100% secure, and you only have to take their recommendations should you wish to do so. Think of the UKGSPortal as your very own company buyer!
The following grades of membership are offered:
Membership shall be corporate rather than personal. All employees of a company in membership will have access to and may benefit from services provided by the Association.
The Executive Committee will exercise full control over application and admission procedures. Their decision on all matters concerning applications and admissions will be final and they will not be bound to give any reason for any of their decisions on such matters.
Grade of Membership | Annual Cost (plus VAT) |
Member | ₤485.00 |
Associate | ₤585.00 |
Affiliate | ₤585.00 |
The cost of membership includes one free half page Advertisement in the Cutting Edge |
As amended/approved at the AGM 3/10/07
We are an Association of gasket cutters/converters and as such, we meet three times a year to exchange views and information with our colleagues, competitors and suppliers. If you are in the trade and not at these meetings you are not informed and not up to date with the latest news.
The meetings themselves comprise of a golf day, an AGM with a Ladies day at the races and a technical visit to suppliers or a large manufacturing concern. Many a good working relationship has been created at the “19th hole” or over the winner of the 3:30 at Nottingham Race Course. All meetings are open to any of your staff not just managers/owners of companies. Site visits are a great way to let your staff see how other companies cope and deal with production and design.
There is a quarterly magazine; “Cutting Edge” which includes articles on company developments and interesting staff profiles and much more.
What is the cost?
The UKGSA is a member of the British Standards Institution, so that you don’t have to be. There’s a saving of over £200 per annum and you can have copies of any British Standard at half price. As a new member you will also be entitled to a free ½ page Advertisement in an issue of your choice of the Cutting Edge Newsletter.
For a member, even without the saving from British Standards, the cost equates to 161 pints of Boddingtons (Manchester’s beer, brewed in Luton) – and for a 260 working day year that equates to 5/8th of a pint per day. (That’s just a little more than a litre if you are a lager drinker)
For Affiliated and Associated members we shall use the petrol rate of exchange = 97 gallons of petrol per annum, that’s 0.37 of a gallon a day; about 16 miles worth!
Quite obviously it is an expenditure that can be set off against profits.
So it’s not expensive to belong!
The UKGSA this year is investing heavily in a new web site and will develop it so that its members will be in a prominent position on the main search engines.
(Such promotion in turn improves the position of your own web site)
The site will have a “members only” area for surplus materials and bargain offers with a discussion of information forum. You have to be a member to see this.
The really nice thing about the UKGSA is that it is not a clique club, it is an association of like minded people who can forge relationships and trust with competitors and suppliers.