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Benefits and fees

Membership benefits

Joining the Cambridge Network provides specific benefits designed for Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders, people involved in HR, Marketing, Finance, Business Development, R&D as well as for students, researchers and jobseekers.

Benefits of membership (for Corporate members these apply to all staff in the member organisation, for Individual members these apply to the named individual only) include:

  • Marketing - Leveraging the 'Cambridge' brand to make sure your message gets as high a profile as possible on the Internet! - Our site receives over 10000 hits each workday and has the dominant Alexa ranking in the East of England. Our news content is run on 'Google News' and our weekly e-news letter carries this content to 3500 subscribers.  Corporate members posting press releases, company profile, product, services and events notices can benefit from this and drive high quality traffic to your own site. Individual members can post a personal profile and/or CV.

  •  HR - Use of the Cambridge Network website for posting job advertisements  Corporate members can post up to 20 job ads at any one time. You can post jobs throughout the year within your single annual membership fee (which is cheaper than a few square centimetres once in your local paper!). Jobs are carried in our weekly e-jobs letter and our RSS feeds. There is also the option to upgrade to Premium Job status for just £75 per ad per week.


  • HR - Access to 'The Learning Collaboration (TLC)'.  All members can participate in our scheme to access high quality in-house training courses run by larger Cambridge companies. TLC have negotiated special rates on courses offered by major providers as well as a local salary survey.

  • Business development -Global corporates like Apple, Nokia and WL Gore seek partners in Cambridge through participation in 'Cambridge Corporate Gateway'. They are asked to select the people they want to meet from the profiles posted by our members on this site.

  • Start-ups Corporate Members get their own home page on our site and are easily reached by search engines as a result. Each of these directory entry pages has areas for products and services, news, events and job ads. All this is free within the subscription payment.

  • All! - Meet like-minded future employees, bosses, colleagues and friends. Networking is a powerful route to developing your company and your career. Cambridge Network members receive invitations to events including Open Meetings and Café Networking which are free to all members (depending on your membership type you will be badged/listed under your individual or company name). 

  • All! - Benefit from discounts on a wide range of local products and services (such as hotel rooms, dining, recruitment services and meeting room hire). Simply log in to the discounts area to receive your discount voucher code.
  • Functional champions - (Corporate Members only) Participation in Special Interest Groups (with focus on: IT, Intellectual Property, Marketing, China, Healthcare) as well as investment and corporate partnering events. Special interest groups are a proven value for money alternative to buying consultancy for those wanting to benchmark their knowledge and learn new practices.

  • Entrepreneurs, Sole Traders, Start-ups - 'Inside track' on business-to-business networking opportunities - we'll help you find 'other parts of the jigsaw puzzle'.

  • Many of our members find their entries on our site score higher with search engines (like Google) than their own websites. Others find Cambridge Network membership fees are quickly justified by savings made on traditional recruitment media. Please see How to use this website
     
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    Annual membership  fees

    Membership as an individual* per annum:

    Individual membership £50 + VAT

    Free membership is available to academics and students of member universities (University of Cambridge; Anglia Ruskin and University of East Anglia) -  simply click on the Join tab
    and follow the instructions under 'If you think your company is already a member'.

    Note: Individual members are joining on their own behalf and representing their own interests (not those of their organisation). For this reason their organisation will not be referred to by their website entry or their badging at meetings.

    Membership for organisations* per annum:

    1-5 staff £100+VAT
    6-20 staff £250+VAT
    21-50 staff £500+VAT
    51-100 staff £750+VAT
    >100 staff £1000+VAT (includes FE institutions)

    *Size of organisation - and thus membership category - is determined by the number of employees of the parent organisation, as reported in the organisation's accounts at Companies House.
     

    Discounted membership categories

    Primary & secondary level academic organisations £50 + VAT
    Charity membership £50 + VAT (<100 staff and UK registered charities only)








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    Member Feedback
    Cambridge Network receives regular feedback on the things members like - and don't - about our service. Read some of our members' recent comments below.

    Corporate Gateway
  • Earlier this year you passed our contact details to CVB of P. Research Labs. I am pleased to say we have now been awarded an initial 10-day market research and regulatory strategy pilot study contract. JP 18/04/08
  • Thank you so much for Monday nights event it was truly stimulating and really served to engage our cultural offer within the wider business and inventing community – I was raving about the flexible screen that will have media content downloaded onto it from anywhere in the world – the news on the go and beyond. HR 24/04/08
  • Many thanks for the generous invitation to the Cambridge Gateway Gala dinner on Tuesday evening. The food, wine and service were excellent as was the company. It was thoroughly enjoyable and productive. I enjoyed meeting the other technology experts from a wide variety of backgrounds and I hope to further the contacts established. IS 25/04/08
  • Thank you very much for the excellently organised event and the good time I had in Cambridge. I am very impressed about the entrepreneurial spirit of the people I met in Cambridge. JP 29/04/08
  • Thanks for organising a very interesting presentation. It was of great value and really got us thinking afterwards. CV 17/03/08
  • We get invited to many such events, but given our tight technical focus, most events do not bring serious opportunities to our attention. However, Cambridge has an exceptional reputation RM 03/09/08

    Cleantech Special Interest Group
  • Many thanks for the breakfast – it was really interesting. As my first event, I enjoyed it and can see the real value in the Cambridge Network. SS 20/06/08
  • Many thanks for organising an excellent evening for the clean tech interest group last week. EG 23/11/08

    India Open Meeting
  • Thanks. It was a great, high energy event. Very useful for me. Thanks for all your efforts, BH 30/6/08
  • I very much enjoyed the India session and thought your panel were excellent. PW 30/6/08

    Cafe Networking
  • Thank you very much for your hospitality last night: it was obviously a very successful event and even in the short time I was there I had the opportunity of meeting some very interesting people. DB 16/12/08
  • Many thanks for your email, and for your warm welcome yesterday evening. It was a hugely successful event in all sorts of ways, and we are very grateful to have had the opportunity to address such a great number of people. Needless to say, we shall be pleased to arrange representation of TOU in the East of England at the next event planned for 24 February! We look forward to receiving further details nearer to the date. MK 17/12/08
  • Thanks you so much for the opportunity to speak. I agree that its a great venue for a productive informal gathering. RT 17/12/08

    Website
  • Pay invoice on-line worked fine for me. No problem at all - quick, easy and just the way I'd hope. DB 11/07/08
  • I very much like the added information I am now seeing in the Newsletter, when I rest over an active link. As you promised, it makes clear whether the link is worth clicking on or not. Thank you! LvS 13/11/08
  • I have decided not to renew my membership of the Cambridge Network.Primarily, this decision was made because I don't think the website has really done anything to improve the functionality or services available to members since its launch. In an age of news story ranking like Digg embedded audio/video and the various other web 2.0 services dedicated to news, I think it's extremely disappointing that a site such as Cambnet, representing a high-tech area such as Cambridge has been so slow to adopt the internet. Even the RSS feeds don't work properly. There are several features which if you implemented, would vastly improve the overall experience of Cambnet and ultimately make more people use it more often.Please take this as positive feedback.NM 01/04/08
  • Congratulations - One of the easiest websites - but what else should I expect from Cambridge! WC 1/12/08
  • I posted 3 jobs on the website, our first experience with the network, and frankly it surpassed all our expectations. All three jobs have now been filled with excellent people, all of whom applied through the network. Apologies for any confusion caused and once again thank you on behalf of myself and colleagues for a sterling and indispensable service. HB 10/12/08

    Miscellaneous
  • Keep up the good work, Cambridge Network is a very important marketing tool for us RS 01/03/08
  • Peter, had a stunning response from just those few contacts. Most appreciated. PK 12/03/08
  • Sincere thanks for your out of hours help and support. IB 26/03/08
  • Not sure how much feedback you get but thought I would offer some. 2 people responded to our CN news article and both are now volunteering with us. It works! JD 23/04/08
  • I would recommend the Cambridge Network to any organization looking for high levels of positive Media exposure! MS 26/06/08
  • Thank you for an enjoyable and productive evening. We gained a useful introduction from the session. DH 30/07/08
  • Almost 12 months ago I contacted you to assist me with loading my CV onto the Cambridge Network. Cambridge Network was a great success as T contacted me where I am now working as Sales Director. RL 9/09/08
  • Thank you so much for your introduction to IB. I do not know what will happen between the two of us in the future as we have known each other for too short an amount of time. But we had a very productive meeting today, he is interested by the company's future prospects and is kindly helping me draft the business plan. MO 12/09/08
  • Yesterday I sat next to DC, exactly what I had wanted to do, and he listened intently about my start-up. He invited me to present to the Cambridge Angel's informal session. And then of course you introduced me - personally! - to all the folks at N, and I enjoyed meeting everyone else as well. It was such a pleasant evening and so tremendously useful. MO 7/10/08
  • I did not have the chance to thank you on the day itself for your efforts in making our opening day a success, thus I would like to do this via this mail. I was very glad to have you as our opening speaker, and your choice of presentation focus to welcome us back to Cambridge with reference to the history has worked extremely well. BT 10/11/08