Membership

The Joint Consultants' Forum (JCF)is the creation of leading UK professional institutes and bodies, who bestow professional recognition on their members by requirement of defined competencies and who operate codes of conduct that regulate their members. The following organisations are members of the JCF:

• The Association of Consulting Scientists (ACS)
  
• British Computer Society (BCS)
  
• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
  
• Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)
  
• Chartered Quality Institute (CQI)
  
• Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
  
• Energy Institute (EI)
  
• The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
  
• Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST)
  
• Institute of Business Consulting (IBC)
  
• Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE)
  
• Operational Research Society (ORS)
  
• Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Mission

The Joint Consultants' Forum (JCF) is the collective member service dedicated to helping professional consultants (particularly sole practitioners and small consultancy groups) expand their competences and capabilities to deliver more effective business solutions for clients. The JCF shares best practice in professional consulting across all member institutions and promotes inter-disciplinary networking and collaboration on client projects.

Governance

The relationship between the member institutions and the co-ordination of the promotion of joint events and other related activities is maintained by a steering committee. Each JCF professional institution is entitled to be represented on the steering committee by a voluntary officer, usually the chair or committee member of the consultancy group, and a staff member. The steering committee normally meets at quarterly intervals and member institutions take turns to act as host and provide the chairman of the meeting.

Event Promotion & Sharing

Member institutions organize their events independently and, when it is felt appropriate, invite other JCF member institutions to promote the event to their members through their websites and newsletters. The members of those institutions which accept the invitation and promote the event are entitled to the lower member delegate rate. Unless agreed in advance, normal practice will be followed whereby the host institution receives the income and bears the total cost of the event.