Membership

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Save at least £75 with Full Membership of ShareSoc, giving you ALL^* benefits, for less than 90p per week (£45 p.a.), entitling you to 6 Premium events including Masterclasses in 2022!

Full Members’ complete range of unique and valuable benefits are shown in the table below and examples include:

Comprehensive 16 page + newsletter at least 4 times a year, focused on topics of particular interest to private investors, including unique reports on companies.
Exclusive on-line Forums,
Priority booking at events,
Obtain free support and get involved in our activities.
PLUS special discounts available from partner organisations. See: Member Offers.
Only Full Members have ShareSoc voting rights and elect the directors.

Associate Membership is FREE but your benefits are reduced e.g. a summary newsletter, may be unable to attend / charged more for ShareSoc events etc. All we ask of Associate members is that you have an interest in stock market investment and support our aims.

We strongly encourage you to join as a Full Member as we are a not-for-profit organisation and your membership fees fund the operations of ShareSoc, our campaigning activities and allow us to serve our members more effectively.

^*Except SIGnet exclusive membership benefits, as described below. You can obtain these additional benefits by upgrading to combined ShareSoc/SIGnet full membership for only £15 p.a. in addition to the ShareSoc full membership fee.

SIGnet membership (or a combined ShareSoc Full+ SIGnet membership) offers access to the SIGnet investor group network. Through this network, you have the opportunity to gain experience and expand your knowledge through meeting other investors in friendly self-managed groups. SIGnet members also benefit from an exclusive newsletter and dedicated SIGnet member forums. Go here to learn more about SIGnet. Membership of SIGnet costs just £25p.a. (with a special discounted rate of £15p.a. for ShareSoc Full members). We also offer a NO QUIBBLE GUARANTEE: If you are not satisfied with your SIGnet membership and advise our office within the first four months of joining, your SIGnet subscription will be refunded and your membership of SIGnet will be terminated. No further debits will be made from your card. Please see the SIGnet Rules for full details. SIGnet membership alone includes all the benefits of associate membership of ShareSoc and carries voting rights in ShareSoc.

Click on an option opposite to get the immediate benefits of Membership. To take up combined ShareSoc/SIGnet membership, please join as a full member first and then also click on the SIGnet option to apply for SIGnet membership additionally. We will then upgrade your membership status to combined automatically.

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Member Entitlements

Member Entitlements	Associate Member (Free)	Full Member (£45/year)	SIGnet Member (£25/year)	Combined ShareSoc/SIGnet Member (£60/year)
Masterclass & Exclusive Premium events – free of charge		✓ Save at least £75		✓ Save at least £75
"Informer" newsletters: min. 4 per year	Short Version	Full Version	Short Version	Full Version
Monthly SIGnet newsletter			✓	✓
Access to experienced investment experts	Limited	✓	Limited	✓
Participation in Campaigns on behalf of private investors	✓	✓	✓	✓
Networking with fellow investors	Limited	Limited	✓	✓
Participate in SIGnet investor groups			✓	✓
Access to investor resources on web site including: investor educational pages, links to "useful services for investors", recommended reading list for investors and AIM company evaluation scorecard.	Limited	✓	Limited	✓
Opportunities to participate in working groups and consultations	✓	✓	✓	✓
Free priority access to ShareSoc Company Growth webinars / seminars (subject to availability)		✓		✓
Free priority access to ShareSoc Suppers: single company events. (subject to availability)		✓		✓
Free access to ShareSoc company visits (subject to availability)		✓		✓
Discounts on various investor services e.g:
Stockopedia		✓		✓
ShareScope		✓		✓
Research Tree		✓		✓
Mello Investor Shows		✓		✓
Access to exclusive online resources:
Private investor discussion Forums (excluding dedicated SIGnet forums)		✓		✓
Dedicated SIGnet Private investor discussion Forums			✓	✓
Newsletter archive		✓		✓
SIGnet Newsletter archive			✓	✓
Company AGM report library		✓		✓
Presentations & reports from company seminars		✓		✓
Executive remuneration reports		✓		✓
Book Reviews		✓		✓
Voting rights at ShareSoc General Meetings		✓	✓	✓

Group description:	Group focused on active investing, primarily in small / medium cap UK equities.
Meeting Type/Venue:	Zoom.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	Monthly on Saturdays at 10am.

Group description:	We hold monthly in-person meetings with possible exceptions in August and December. Discussions are generally on the topic of investment strategy and potential companies of interest. Each member is expected to make an investment-related presentation approximately once a year.
Meeting Type/Venue:	We meet in a private room at a pub around 7 miles SW of Oxford. We usually each order a dish from the pub menu that is served during the meeting.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	Meetings are in-person, monthly on the 4th Tuesday of the month at 7pm. Typical meetings last 2 to 2.5 hours.

Group description:	Our group is a broad church that contains investors of varying age and experience. We discuss stocks and investment trusts that we have bought, sold or are interested in and the reasons behind our decisions, and try to make sense of the ever changing investment environment. Our members backgrounds are diverse and include corporate banking, engineering, teaching and the leisure industry. Discussions are robust and challenging but tend to be to be informal, and do not generally involve agendas, presentations or detailed preparation.
Meeting Type/Venue:	Our meetings are held on Zoom, although we are all based around London so try to meet centrally for lunch from time to time.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	We meet every 2 months, generally midweek at 10.30am.

Group description:	Meeting once a month, our group covers a variety of investment styles. We also have an active WhatsApp group and we welcome new members.
Meeting Type/Venue:	Physical meetings at a venue in Preston, Hitchin, SG4.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	Monthly on a Saturday at 10am (usually the last Saturday of the month).

Group description:	Experienced investors who have been members many years and newer members wanting to learn about investing. Members discuss portfolio content and reasons why they have certain assets and investments. Buys and sells discussed along with interesting shares being considered along with current issues in the market of local or international influence.
Meeting Type/Venue:	Physical face to face meetings held in a central pub in Easton in Gordano.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	Usually monthly to 6 weekly, mid week 12 noon to 2pm with lunch.

Group description:	The Options group has been meeting monthly for some 20+ years and new members who are either trading or interested in trading options are always welcome. Our members trade options predominately on both UK and USA shares, indices, currencies and commodities.
Meeting Type/Venue:	Prior to Covid all monthly meetings were at a west London golf club, close to an underground station, where we had a one course lunch prior to our meetings in a private room. Since Covid all meetings have been via video and some new members have joined who are too far from west London to meet face to face. However, it is intended that future meetings will be both in person and via video link.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	Meetings are monthly, on the 4th Wednesday of each month, normally from 12:30 to 2:30 and sometimes run over.

Group description:	A long-established group, however, we welcome new applications. Our meetings start at 10:15am with coffee and scones when members comment on their investment activities since the previous month. Generally, each member reports on a specific Company/IT/Fund e.t.c. This brings us to about 12:30pm when the meeting ends, and we have lunch.
Meeting Type/Venue:	In-person at a Golf Club in Belfast.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	The group usually meets on the second Wednesday of the month, all year round, except in July and August when we have no meetings. Meetings commence at 10:15am and last 2-3 hours (including lunch).

Group description:	Our group covers a wide spectrum of mainly stock market investing and trading from equities – which include shares, ETF’s Investment and Unit Trusts – mainly UK and USA, but also some spread betting and financial options. We normally rotate the meeting chairperson (responsible for creating, with member’s help, suitable agendas) and a meeting presenter (members take it in turns to provide a 15 to 45 minute presentation on a subject of their choice). Various investing topics of interest are regularly discussed such as software, brokers, investing categories and markets and any related topics of interest.
Meeting Type/Venue:	Following Covid, this group hasn’t yet reconvened at their previously regular meeting venue which is in a private room within a west London golf club. In the meantime, meetings are held via videoconferencing. Part of the reason is that some members have moved away and some prefer meeting in person. So our aim is to recruit new members to ensure a continued regular in person meeting.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	Meetings are held on the second Wednesday of each month in the afternoons, following a golf club one course lunch for our in-person meetings.

Group description:	We are a friendly social group welcoming investors with all levels of experience. Our membership varies between those with little or no knowledge of investing to those who live off their investing or their portfolios. We do not invest as a group so there is no money on the table, and we never discuss individual worth; we simply discuss and share investing ideas, we analyse the state of the market, individual stocks, funds, trusts, bonds etc., and we invite contributions from all group members. Guest speakers and company presentations are a regular feature, as is the SIGnet competition and also our own long-term Manchester Portfolio. We invite members to volunteer presentations from time to time on particular topics of their interest / expertise. At each meeting members are asked to share their latest or potential buying and selling activity. Our face-to-face meetings are punctuated by a lunch break, and for those with the time there is socialising and drinks afterwards. Most of all we learn from each other.
Meeting Type/Venue:	The group meets through a combination of Zoom and face-to-face meetings at a central Manchester boardroom style venue.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	Meets bi-monthly, 10am-3pm on Monday mornings, usually mid-month.