About Sponsorship
Following extensive discussions with companies, who in recent years
have provided significant financial support to the British Fertility
Society, we have now agreed to re-organise the Corporate Patronage
arrangements.
General Principles
- The BFS is a Limited Company.
- The BFS Ltd is registered for VAT.
- The BFS Educational Charity
Ltd is a separate company which aids the educational activities
of the Society.
- The BFS provides a multi-disciplinary forum for
its membership.
- In order to encourage membership from all groups
that work in the field of reproductive medicine, it is aimed
to maintain low membership fees and low registration costs
for meetings.
- The BFS produces a quarterly journal, Human Fertility.
- There
are two main meetings of the BFS annually, the Summer College
and Winter College. The content of these meetings are developed
by the BFS Meetings Sub-Committee, which reports to the BFS Executive.
The meetings typically comprise presentations of new data, discussion
of ethics, interactive workshops, Person’s Responsible training,
and BFS Accreditation courses. .The meetings are often held jointly
with sister societies (ACE, BAS, SRF and possibly others in the
future).
The British Fertility is extremely grateful to its Principal Sponsors
and Corporate Members for supporting the Society. The companies
should note that educational grants to the BFS Educational Charity
Ltd would have significant tax benefits to those providing the
grants.
Companies that do not wish to be Principal Sponsors or Corporate
Members will be charged standard rates at all meetings. Any company
representatives who wish to attend both the exhibition and the
scientific meetings will be charged at that standard rate, but
company representatives who wish only to attend the exhibition
will be charged on a daily basis at 50% of the standard daily delegate
rate. Companies who are neither Principal Sponsors nor Corporate
Members may also wish to sponsor specific prizes and awards and
these can be negotiated separately.
Levels of Sponsorship
For each financial year beginning March 1 (which is the start of
the BFS financial year) there are two levels of sponsorship available:
Further information on these, and other opportunities, can be
discussed with the Secretariat.