Organisations Links
Return to Main
 Link to our Web Page
 Up One Level
:: Europe :::: United Kingdom :::: Business and Economy :::: Organisations ::

Organisations Links

British Combustion Equipment Manufacturers Association - Promoting and protecting the interests of manufacturers engaged in the combustion equipment industry as well as collecting and distributing relevant technical, commercial and statistical information.
Institute of Diagnostic Engineers - Professional institute for people who are concerned with servicing and maintenance of machines and structures, and the effectiveness or engineering of industrial systems. Training, networking, information sharing and updating.
The Institute of Directors (IOD) - UK Organisation representing individual company directors.
Society of Consumer Affairs Professionals (SOCAP UK) - SOCAP UK member organisation focusing on consumer satisfaction and relationships. The Society aims to 'define and advance professional excellence in consumer affairs and customer service'.
Manufacturing in the Information Society Technolgies Programme (MANIST) - National Contact Point for manufacturing-related opportunities within the European Commission's 5th Framework Programme.
Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) - Represents organisations which recruit and employ graduates or which offer services in connection with graduate recruitment. AGR is increasingly involved with research in and around the recruitment needs of employers. Established in 1968.
Social Firms UK - Resources for social firms which employ people with disabilities & disadvantages in the open labour market
Further Education National Training Organisation (FENTO) - Promoting competitiveness by raising education and training standards in the industries and occupations they represent. Details of current projects, news and events, resources library and members area.
British Academy of Management - Describes the organisation and its objectives and gives information about activities, membership and fellowship, journal, conferences and constitution.
Telecentre Association - Europe's largest organisation dedicated to the promotion of teleworking. Details of membership requirements, news, events and jobs, with publications, ezine and online shop.
CBI - The Confederation of British Industry is one of the UK's leading independent employers' organisation. Representing over 250,000 public and private sector companies.
Royal Town Planning Institute - Information about the Institute and the planning profession, with details of publications, awards and policy.
Forum of Private Business - Aims to influence laws and policies affecting small-medium sized businesses. With membership information, research resources, documents for download and news.
These4walls - London-based think tank and networking forum for professionals in the marketing and communications industries. Contains industry news, details of events, membership information and other resources.
Gay Business Association - Chamber of commerce type organisation for gay and lesbian run businesses. Directory of members, membership information, events, and newsletter.
International Development Organisation - Aims to bring together all those involved in international development and aid, with news, publications, events listings and meeting details.
United Kingdom Cartridge Recyclers Association - Lists the Association's aims and provides information on setting up recycling schemes together with links to forums and trade publications.
Institute of Automotive Engineer Assessors (IAEA) - Features a guide and members search.
Business & Environment Network - Subscription based service offering environmental advice to businesses in Edinburgh and the rest of the UK. Includes a business environmental guide.
CharitiesDirect - Providing information for charitable bodies including national charaties database search.
Building Societies Members Association - News and issues relating to building society membership. They aim to promote mutual status of societies.
United Kingdom Registry of Canine Behaviourists - Information of membership criteria and services.
Society for Technical Communication, United Kingdom Chapter - Offers technical authors and related professionals resources, education programs, links, chapter meetings, and a job bank.
Food and Drink Federation - Body representing the UK food and drink manufacturing industry. FDF works with government, NGOs and consumers to develop industry positions on issues and renew confidence in the food chain.
Master Locksmiths Association - Membership information, directory of licensed and registered locksmiths, guidelines, contact details and links.
The Consumer Protection Association - Independent body offering a range of services designed to offer the purchaser of home improvements valuable protection and peace of mind. Information on organisation and search facility for approved contractor.
Pacific Asia Travel Association UK Chapter - Formed to contribute to the growth and development of travel and tourism in the Pacific Asia area. Membership details and 'ask the expert' forum.
National Microelectronics Institute - Not-for-profit organisation promoting the operation and growth of the microelectronics industry in the UK and Ireland. Information on the organisation, industry and members.
Institute of Consumer Sciences - Information about and for consumer scientists and home economists in the UK. Members work in teaching, academia, journalism, catering, health and caring services.
The BioIndustry Association - Encouraging and promoting the biotechnology sector of the UK economy. Membership, events, committees, regulations, publications, NewsCAST, BIA Bulletin and News from the Net.
The British Computer Society - Chartered professional institution for the field of information systems engineering, and exists to provide service and support to the IS community. Details on membership, qualifications and resources.
Institute of Marine Engineers (IMarE) - Information about the Institute and its activities.
Transport Container Standardisation Committee (TCSC) - A UK nuclear industry club concerned with containers for transporting nuclear materials. Codes of practice and relevant papers.
British Woodturners Association - List of members and the products they manufacture.
Plastics and Board Industries Federation - Overview of the federation, membership information and benefits, publications and index of members and their products and services.
Register of Independent Researchers - Information on independent social researchers throughout the UK. Includes current work interests, areas of specialism and experience.
The Prince's Trust Rose Project - Helping young people living in rural areas of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire to set up businesses, providing them with advice and a free website.
The Institute of Plumbing - Founded in 1906, the Institute of Plumbing is the UK's professional body for plumbers and others in the plumbing industry.
Institute of Small Business Management - Includes mision statement, advantages of membership, a newsletter and an application form.
The Institute of Groundsmanship - Membership organization that represents groundsmen, greenkeepers and all others involved in landscaping, horticulture, sports turf, and amenity turf management.
The Bathroom Manufacturers Association - Established in 2001 by a number of leading bathroom manufacturers to represent their interests at all levels.
Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply - Education and qualification body representing purchasing and supply chain professionals. Includes details of membership, training, resources, local branches, news and forum.
Food Links UK - Network of organisations active in supporting the local food sector. Describes strategies and includes membership details.
Institute of Administrative Management - Professional body for administrative managers. Includes information on accredited qualifications and contact details.
Basement Information Centre - National centre for information about the development and use of basements. Includes publication details, products and services and a forum.
The Institution of Nuclear Engineers - Careers details, news, membership and events. Includes a forum and link to the South African branch.
Nuclear Industry Association - Trade association representing operators of nuclear power stations, and companies engaged in decommissioning, waste management, nuclear fuel cycle, equipment, engineering, construction, research. News and promotional information about nuclear power and the nuclear industry.
Institute of Paper - Professional body representing individuals in the industry. Includes information about the technology of paper making, careers and news.
National Home Improvement Council - Trade association lists member companies and organisations that work in the home improvement sector, and offers advice on improving and modernising homes.
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. -- Sam Kinison It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus. -- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Organisations Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Ninety percent of everything is crap. -- Theodore Sturgeon The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill Organisations "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organisations Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Organisations Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper. -- Scottish Proverb You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince. -- American Proverb "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organisations "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde Organisations Man and wife make one fool. A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with ano Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV People need loving the most when they deserve it the least. -- John Harrigan If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. -- Seen on a bumper sticker Organisations It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau May you never leave your marriage alive. The mistakes are all waiting to be made. - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Organisations Give me a museum and I'll fill it. -- Pablo Picasso "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them? -- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Organisations There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. -- Anonymous Organisations We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us. -- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. -- Oscar Wilde "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull Organisations A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S. Truman The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Organisations The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing. -- Sigmund Freud "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it. -- Alvin Toffler Choose a wife by your ear than your eye. -- Thomas Fuller, 1732 I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. -- Zsa Zsa Gabor Organisations "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Organisations History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. -- Abraham Lincoln The multitude is always in the wrong. -- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Organisations Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. -- George Santayana Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Organisations "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as Brutus loved Caesar. -- Bill Moyers To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Organisations If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment. -- Voltaire Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely. -- Bette-Jane Raphael It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein Organisations "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Organisations "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed -- Kate Halverson Organisations blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur Organisations Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Organisations
Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |  Sponsored Link |