EMN Affiliate or Service Member Application

EMN prides itself as a trusted and impartial network established to support the engineering and manufacturing community in North East England. Underpinning this is our 80/20 pledge – maintaining an 80/20% split of engineering & manufacturing business members to service providers. This pledge helps us to provide a high quality, engineering & manufacturing focus for our primary target group whilst also integrating the valuable tried, tested and trusted services that our Service Members offer.

The table below sets out our existing Service and Affiliate members. This is updated monthly. We ask all our members to sign up to our core values and note the benefits of membership and what we ask of our members. Please read these before entering application.

 

EMN Values

  • EMN  is an engineering and manufacturing community that it’s members are proud to be a part of;
  • Our focus is to provide tangible benefits for our members;
  • We are trusted to provide impartial peer to peer advice and support and are approachable, friendly, helpful and accessible;
  • 80 % of our members will be from the Engineering & Manufacturing Sector and we endeavour to retain this split at our events with an 80% representation;
  • Our focus will always be our Engineering & Manufacturing members needs and this drives 100% of our activity
  • We are a targeted Network/Community, not an open cluster.

 

We have two types of Service Members

  • Affiliate Members
  • Service Provider Members

AFFILIATE MEMBER Benefits             £1200 plus VAT PA plus Event Sponsorship

  • Six EMN Newsletters per annum direct to EMN Members
  • Dedicated article on the EMN affiliate website page
  • Introduction to your services in new & renewal letters to members
  • First Call on EMN event Service Provider event tickets
  • Reposting of Affiliate social media posts by EMN (& EMCON where relevant)
  • First call on EMCON Service Provider exhibition stands
  • First call on sponsorship opportunities for EMN Events
  • First call on invitations to present at EMN events where applicable
  • Supported introductions to EMN members where applicable
  • Leaflet in EMN Membership Pack

 

What EMN would like from its Affiliates

  • Sign up to the EMN Values (see below);
  • Support us at EMN events through attendance, inviting interested companies and sponsorship;
  • Introduce 3 or more new Engineering & Manufacturing clients to EMN and help us meet our membership target of 250 engineering & manufacturing members by mid 2024
  • Regularly attend affiliate meetings
  • Adhere to the EMN sales protocol that enables advertising through agreed Network channels;
  • Provide EMN members with an exclusive member only benefit.
  • Hold affiliate position for two years prior to reapplication.

 

SERVICE PROVIDER MEMBER Benefits       £450 plus VAT PA

  • Three EMN e Newsletters per year – delivered direct to Engineering & Manufacturing Members
  • Introductory social media post on sign up & renewal of EMN membership
  • First call on EMN event Service Provider tickets
  • Second call on EMCON Service Provider stands and discount
  • Second call on sponsorship and presentational opportunities at EMN Events
  • Tag EMN in on Linked in Posts and we will reshare

 

What we would like from our Service Provider Members

  • Sign up to the EMN Values (see below);
  • Support us at EMN events through attendance, inviting interested companies and sponsorship;
  • Introduce 3 or more Engineering & Manufacturing clients to EMN and encourage membership
  • Adhere to the EMN network sales protocol that enables advertising through agreed Network channels;
  • Repost and circulate EMN social media posts

Table Updated: 2/12/2024