PPLA Benefits

Not belonging to the PPLA means you miss out on these essential ingredients to running a successful Business in a highly competitive and very specialised industry:

– Meeting with your peers to discuss the latest developments.

– The 'PPLA Directory of Members' – a source of information and contacts.

– Special reports and the 'PPLA newsheet 'Lablink'.

– Barclays Merchant Services lowest rates for credit card transactions.

– The annual 'Trade Day' with guest speakers, trade seminars, business forums, regional 'Labchats' and training forums. Visits home and abroad with Supplier Members – to see whats new and emerging to keep your business abreast of an ever-changing marketplace.

– A valuable £15 certificate redeemable toward market research reports, management and training materials, in-store displays, business forms, and more.

– Business advice from the IRPC Business Advice Specialists – Tax, VAT, PAYE, Payroll, Employment, Health & Safety and Commercial Legal matters.

– Insurance cover under the 'Professional Indemnity' scheme administered by Camerasure/Alliance helping you to sleep a little easier at night knowing you are safe from claims of negligence and loss. 'Laboratory Insurance' (Fixtures and fittings) covering all aspects of your business. Many PPLA members have saved literally hundreds of pounds and improved their cover; it costs nothing for a quotation that could save you £'s.

– Recruitment and Training assistance/advice – the PPLA has been involved in the formation of the Photographic National Training Organisation (Photo NTO) and with the development of training standards within further education.

– The PPLA Business and Social Calendar is well recognised within the industry, combining business with pleasure, home and abroad, with families and friends.

– Special member rates await you at the PMAI Annual Convention and Trade Show held in America in the early part of the year, with over 700 exhibitors and 400 training sessions. Orlando, Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada are just some of the venues used.