Training

Training group membership offers unbeatable value and flexibility plus it allows you to budget effectively with fixed monthly payments.  Better still, there are three great membership options to choose from.

Membership

If you are dedicated to providing training for all members of your team, including support staff, membership is the perfect solution to your practice.   For an annual subscription based upon the size of your practice* you are entitled to:

• Send any number of participants on any courses forming part of the local CPD programme
• Send any member of staff, including support staff, on any courses on the local Professional Development programme
• Attend any CPD course in other local programmes at the season ticket price
• Access CPD course notes online
• Unlimited access to a programme of 12 CPD courses online
• A PDF of the quarterly edition of Vision, including the Audit and Tax Technical Update
• 25% discount for every place booked on our specialist courses and conferences
• 25% discount on our management training and specialist tax programmes
• 25% discount on live and recorded webinars
• 25% discount on our online professional development courses
• 10% discounts on our other products and services from file reviews to technical manuals to marketing products*.

*Except totalSOLUTION Products.

Fees

£150 per firm plus £370 per partner and senior member of professional staff, and £260 for junior members of staff.  You can pay by fixed monthly payments and you can join at any time – the fee will be pro rated to reflect the courses you have missed.

MembershipPLUS

MembershipPLUS allows you to attend Mercia courses anywhere in the country; this includes our specialist courses and one day conferences.
 MembershipPLUS members will receive:

• All the benefits of Membership.
  PLUS
• Unlimited places on other local CPD and PDC programmes at no extra cost
• Unlimited places on our specialist courses and one day conference (£50 per delegate charged on full day courses where lunch provided)
• Free access to recorded webinars
• An annual visit to discuss your training needs if required.

Fees

The fee for 2011 is £350 per firm plus £555 per partner and senior member of professional staff, and £260 for junior members of staff.  You can pay by fixed monthly payments and you can join at any time – the fee will be pro rated to reflect the courses you have missed.

CPD Membership

If you would prefer your membership only to cover CPD courses then this may be the perfect solution for you. As a CPD member you would be entitled to:

• Send as many partners and senior staff as you wish on any courses forming part of the local CPD programme
• Attend any CPD course in other local programmes at the season ticket price
• Access to CPD course notes online
• Unlimited access to a programme of 12 CPD courses online
• A PDF of the quarterly edition of Vision, including the Audit and Tax Technical Update
• 25% discount vouchers for places on our specialist courses and conferences (the number of vouchers equal to number of partners and senior staff).

Fees

The fee for 2011 is £150 per firm plus £370 per partner and senior member of professional staff. You can pay by fixed monthly payments and you can join at any time – the fee will be pro rated to reflect the courses you have missed.

If you need any further information on our membership options please contact Sarah Moore or call her on 0116 258 1200.

* Professional staff includes all staff involved in chargeable work and not just those who will be attending courses. Any staff working 20 hours or less per week should be included as a half. Senior staff are those qualified by examination or experience. Junior staff and trainees includes all trainees plus other inexperienced members of staff who would not normally attend CPD courses.