AUDE Membership: UK Institutions

UK Membership

Excellence in estates and facilities

Join The Association of University Directors of Estates (AUDE) AUDE membership will help your institution deliver excellence and innovation in estates and facilities management. Benefit from subsidised training, attendance at the annual conference, access to tools, resources, reports, events, innovation and conversation. Ensure you are fully informed and connected.

Once your institution is a member, everyone can register and benefit.

Join today – complete and return the enclosed application form or download a copy from aude.ac.uk/membership.

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Membership package Annual subscription fees are based on a tiered priced structure dependent on turnover. Once your institution has joined, any member of staff can register for free and enjoy the benefits below.

Eligible organisations

UK Higher Education Institutions with degree awarding powers

Benefits

• Primary attendance at the AUDE annual conference • Reduced cost training and development opportunities across a huge variety of topics • Participation in regional meetings and activities • Opportunities to sit on the AUDE Executive Committee • Access to a private, online discussion forum • Voting powers at the AUDE AGM • Access to our online resources, reports, news and blog • Posting and reading topics on our online discussion board • Fortnightly digest emails with key updates

AUDE is the representative body for higher education estates and facilities staff in the United Kingdom. Its 700 members from across 166 UK institutions benefit from strategic support, innovative thinking and networking opportunities.

AUDE’s activities include:

• Formulating and influencing national policy Who can join?

Once your institution has joined AUDE, the following individuals can register and benefit: • Directors of Estates and Facilities Management • Deputy Directors of Estates and Facilities Management

• providing opportunities for discussion, consultation, the exchange of knowledge and good practice

• Head of departments

• helping members share expertise and take action to address common concerns

• Any member of staff from your institution.

• Managers, officers, support staff and technical roles

• promoting and enhancing professional competence • representing member interests • building partnerships with related organisations regionally, nationally and internationally.

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What our members say “AUDE is a very collaborative environment and one which is very refreshing and very different to other sectors.”

Keith Lilley, Director of Estates, Facilities Management and I.T., University of Sheffield and AUDE Chair

“If AUDE didn’t exist I would feel obliged to go out and invent it.”

Sue Holmes, Director of Estates and Facilities Management, Oxford Brookes University.

“It would be a backwards, step for universities without AUDE.” Umesh Desai, Director of Estates and Commercial Services, De Montfort University and AUDE Secretary

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