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Chief of Staff Association

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Professional Bodies

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Livery Listings

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W ELCO ME Hello and welcome to the first ever edition of the National Armed Forces & Emergency Services Events (NAFESE) Directory of Associations, Clubs & Societies.

This directory follows on from the success of the NAFESE Community Directory 2024, 2025 and NAFESE’s Forces Education Directory.

The Directory of Associations, Clubs and Societies is brought to you in association with the Chief of Staff Association and more information on this Association can be found in the publication.

The Directory is designed to compliment its sister publications from NAFESE and this magazine (which can be found online and in print) further highlights the importance of being a member of a collective, be they a professional body or the local squash club.

In these days since COVID, the notion of social isolation has been raised and well documented and any opportunity to be part of something social, should not be taken for granted, neither should the opportunity to reach out and gain new members for your club or association be ignored in a similar vein.

With this particular aspect in mind, the chance to join a society, sporting team or social hobby on any scale, in any element of life, could be literally life saving.

NAFESE produce a variety of events for the forces and services communities from armed to emergency to volunteer and for the armed forces in particular the theory that at some point in your transition from military to civilian personnel you will encounter a period of loss of identity, loss of comradeship, needs to be accepted as the norm.

The fact you have gone from a regimental family, squadron, or ship’s company to now fulfilling life as an individual, should not be pushed to one side and swept under the carpet as some kind of affliction.

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The fact that it is perfectly normal to feel this way (and for some it could be a simple five minute reflection in between a now busy civilian identity to others with a more longful look back on a former life) should be openly discussed. However, the opportunity to join a plethora of clubs, associations, societies, teams, branches, professional bodies, liveries, institutes, memberships, groups and the like, that are available today can only but help with the sense of lack of camaraderie or social occasions, that were once in a supply of plenty in the military.

Hopefully this publication can go one step in helping to promote this and in the same token, point out the masses of collectives out there, which can only be a positive thing in so many different ways.

Thanks for reading this first edition and we look forward to developing the Directory with you over the years to come.

Kind regards, Mal Robinson Project Editor, NAFESE Directory of Associations, Clubs & Societies.

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Smoothing the transition When you’re looking to leave the military, you don’t know quite what you are in a civilian setting,’ says Jo Bland, now working as a change and transformation consultant after 15 years in the Royal Air Force and Ministry of Defence. ‘When you’re sitting in front of Indeed. com trying to think of relevant key words and specialisms, it takes a while to understand how breadth of experience, being a Jack-of-alltrades, can translate into good opportunities’.

Chiefs of staff are often described as ‘the ultimate generalists’, typically highly flexible, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to build trust quickly. These are skills that are well developed in the military, and are invaluable in leadership, advisory and operational roles in both the commercial and not-for-profit sectors.

‘It’s understanding how projects and project mechanisms work, and all the soft skills you need to bring your stakeholders with you’, says James Goodwin, currently chief of staff to the CEO of rapidly scaling green tyre company ENSO. ‘I think that’s something that military people can do really well. They just don’t recognise it.’

‘Anyone who’s done Staff College has done some sort of logistics planning, some sort of strategy; they understand the basics of HR. So you’ve got a generalist, but also someone that is used to learning and adapting, because you’re often in a role for only a couple of years.

You have to have the capacity to absorb all of the different strands of the organisation, and not be an expert in any one thing but be able to pull from the experts when you need it,’ agrees Tom Coker, who has translated his decades of army experience into advising CEOs on culture, business strategy, risk, and process improvements. ‘But the other side is having

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the ability to talk to people because often the person on the shop floor is the one who knows how to fix the problem, and no one’s thought to ask them’.

The challenge, James says, is ‘helping individuals when they’re going through that transition to recognise that they do have something unique about them. I think this is where personal development, understanding yourself and the journey you’ve been on, is really fundamental.’

It is also at the core of the Chief of Staff Association, which, through its membership, education and mentoring programmes, is developing an active global network of influential and inspiring people, able to help smooth the path from the military to rewarding roles in other sectors. As Jo says, ‘the most important thing I’ve got from the CSA was a strong network and good friends, whom I could call on for advice and who acted as sounding boards when I started to think about leaving’.

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A SELECTION OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (CHARTERED AND UNCHARTED

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM)

Association of Corporate Treasurers (ACT)

Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)

Association for Project Management (APM)

Chartered Institute of Fundraising (CIof)

Association for Science Education (ASE)

Chartered Institute of Horticulture (CIoH)

British Computer Society (BCS)

Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH)

British Psychological Society (BPS)

Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA)

British Society of Gastroenterology (BSG)

Chartered Institute of Journalists

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)

Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX)

Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE)

Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)

Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (CIFA)

Chartered Institute of Linguists (CIOL)

Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (CISI)

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)

Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb)

Chartered Institute of Loss Adjusters (CILA)

Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT)

Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)

Chartered Banker Institute

Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA)

Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)

Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys (CIPA)

Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM)

Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP)

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Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)

Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI)

Chartered Institute of Plumbing and Heating Engineering (CIPHE)

College of Optometrists (CoO)

Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply (CIPS)

College of Paramedics (CoP)

Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA)

The Chartered College of Teaching (CCT)

Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR)

Energy Institute (EI)

Chartered Institution of Railway Operators (CIRO)

English Association (EA)

Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT)

Geological Society of London

Chartered Institute of Trade Mark Attorneys (CITMA)

Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA)

Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE)

Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW)

Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (CICES)

Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland (ICAI, operates in Northern Ireland)

Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT)

Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)

Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM)

Institute of Chartered Foresters (ICF)

Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)

Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA)

Chartered Insurance Institute (CII)

Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS)

Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

Institute of Conservation (Icon)

Chartered Quality Institute (CQI)

Institute of Directors (IoD)

Chartered Society of Designers (CSD)

Institute of Health and Social Care Management (IHSCM)

Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)

Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST)

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A SELECTION OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (CHARTERED AND UNCHARTED

Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3)

Law Society of Northern Ireland

Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)

Linnean Society of London (LS)

Institute of Measurement and Control (InstMC)

Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS)

Institute of Physics (IoP)

Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE)

Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA)

Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI)

Institute of Refrigeration (InstR)

Royal Asiatic Society (RAS)

Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)

Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)

Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)

Royal College of Anaesthetists

Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP)

Institution of Engineering Designers (IED)

Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)

Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH)

Royal College of Organists (RCO)

Institution of Royal Engineers (InstRE)

Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)

Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE)

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

Landscape Institute (LI)

Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

The Law Society (LS)

Royal College of Physicians of London

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Royal College of Psychiatrists

Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH)

Royal College of Radiologists (RCR)

Royal Society of Biology (RSB)

Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Royal College of Surgeons of England

Royal Society of Medicine (RSM)

Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Royal Statistical Society (RSS)

Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)

Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)

Royal Economic Society (RES)

Society for Radiological Protection (SRP)

Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IBG)

Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC)

Royal Historical Society (RHS)

The Textile Institute (TEXI)

Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS)

The Academy of Experts (TAE)

Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)

Arboricultural Association (AA)

Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN)

Archives and Records Association (ARA)

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

Association for the Education and Guardianship of International Students

Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA)

(AEGIS)

Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS)

Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT)

Royal Microscopical Society (RMS)

Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT)

Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)

Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO)

Royal Photographic Society (RPS)

Association of Taxation Technicians (ATT)

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A SELECTION OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM (CHARTERED AND UNCHARTED

Association of University Administrators (AUA)

Information and Records Management Society (IRMS)

British and International Golf Greenkeepers Association (BIGGA)

The Inns of Court, comprising Gray’s Inn, Lincoln’s Inn, Inner Temple, and Middle

British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP)

Temple

British Association of Social Workers (BASW)

Insolvency Practitioners Association (IPA)

British Guild of Travel Writers (BGTW)

Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS)

British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS)

Institute of Acoustics

Institute of Osteopathy (BOA)

Institute of Administrative Management (IAM)

British Pest Control Association (BPCA)

Institute of Biomedical Science (IBMS)

College of Paramedics (CoP)

Institute of Certified Bookkeepers (ICB)

Chief of Staff Association (COSA)

Institute of Commercial Management (ICM)

Direct Marketing Association (DMA)

Institute of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (ICRS)

Faculty of Advocates

Institute of Economic Development (IED)

Freshwater Biological Association (FBA)

Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA)

General Council of the Bar (Bar Council)

Institute of Employability Professionals (IEP)

Immigration Law Practitioners Association (ILPA)

Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA)

Independent Society of Musicians (ISM)

Institute of Fisheries Management (IFM)

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Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST)

International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH)

Institute of Groundsmanship (IOG)

International Institute of Risk and Safety Management (IIRSM)

Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP)

International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD)

Institute of Interim Management (IIM)

Institute of Financial Accountants (IFA)

Institute of Leadership (IoL)

London Institute of Banking & Finance (LIBF)

Institute of Professional Sound (IPS)

Museums Association (MA)

Institute of Science and Technology (IST)

Nuclear Institute (NI)

Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators (ISTC)

Operational Research Society (ORS)

Institute of Supply Chain Management (IOSCM)

Palaeontological Association (PalAss)

Institute of Tourist Guiding (ITG)

Professional Publishers Association (PPA)

Institute of Transport Administration (IoTA)

Royal Society of Ulster Architects (RSUA)

Institute of Water (IWater)

Security Institute (SyI)

Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM)

Society of British and International Interior Design (SBID)

Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE)

Society of Indexers (SI)

Institution of Analysts and Programmers (IAP)

Society and College of Radiographers (SCoR)

Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES)

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)

Institution of Fire Engineers (IFE)

United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP)

Institution of Railway Signal Engineers (IRSE)

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LI VERY COMPANIE S (stonemasons)

What is a Livery Company?

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Worshipful Company of Plumbers

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Worshipful Company of Innholders (inn keepers)

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Worshipful Company of Founders (metal casters and melters)

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Worshipful Company of Cooks

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Worshipful Company of Coopers (barrel and cask makers)

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Worshipful Company of Tylers and Bricklayers (builders)

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Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths

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Worshipful Company of Joiners and Ceilers (wood craftsmen)

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Worshipful Company of Fruiterers

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Worshipful Company of Plaisterers (plasterers)

A selection of Livery Companies can be found below…

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Worshipful Company of Broderers (embroiderers)

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Worshipful Company of Mercers (general merchants)

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Worshipful Company of Upholders (upholsterers)

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Worshipful Company of Grocers (spice merchants)

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Worshipful Company of Musicians

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Worshipful Company of Turners (lathe operators)

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Worshipful Company of Basketmakers

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Worshipful Company of Farriers (horseshoe makers and equine veterinarians)

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Worshipful Company of Paviors (road and highway pavers)

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Worshipful Company of Loriners (equestrian bit, bridle and spur suppliers)

A livery company is a type of guild or professional association that originated in medieval times in London. Livery companies comprise London’s ancient and modern trade associations and guilds, almost all of which are styled the “Worshipful Company of” their respective craft, trade or profession. There are 111 livery companies in total. They play a significant part in the life of the City of London not least by providing charitable-giving and networking opportunities.

Livery Companies have long supported the Armed Forces and most Companies continue to support one or more regular, reserve or cadet forces units. Some Companies have an obvious connection based upon shared professional interests, while others may be based on historical context.

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Worshipful Company of Drapers (wool and cloth merchants)

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Worshipful Company of Fishmongers (fish and seafood merchants)

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Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths (bullion dealers)

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Worshipful Company of Butchers

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Worshipful Company of Saddlers

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Worshipful Company of Carpenters

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Worshipful Company of Cordwainers (fine leather workers and shoemakers)

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Worshipful Society of Apothecaries (physicians and pharmacists)

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Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers (artists)

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Worshipful Company of Shipwrights (shipowners and maritime professionals)

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Worshipful Company of Curriers (leather dressers and tanners)

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Worshipful Company of Wheelwrights

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Worshipful Company of Distillers

Worshipful Company of Masons

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Worshipful Company of Gunmakers

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