This guidance is created to help existing and prospective ABCP members to decide what to do on 2022-23 membership registration/renewal and attendance registration for the ABCP 2022 Annual Conference. Please read the general rules and one of the following relevant section depending on your personal situation.

General information

  • The 2022-23 membership starts on 01/07/2022 and ends on 30/06/2023. If you join the ABCP after 01/07/2022, your membership’s starting date will be back-dated from 01/07/2022.
  • Only in-person attendance of Day 1 of the 2022 ABCP Annual Conference requires a registration fee of £20, which is a fixed amount for all (members and non-members). Day 2 of the 2022 ABCP Annual Conference will be held virtually and no registration fee will be charged.
    • ABCP members should click here to register for attending the ABCP 2022 Annual Conference.
    • Non-members should click here to register for attending the ABCP 2022 Annual Conference.
  • ABCP Members who will attend Day 1 of the 2022 ABCP Annual Conference can pay for the conferene registration to automatically renew their 2022-23 ABCP membership (i.e., no additional membership renewal is required).
  • ABCP Members who will not attend the 2022 ABCP Annual Conference and want to renew their membership should click here to pay the 2022-23 membership fee (£20 for Full Members or £10 for Associate Members).
  • For registering to attend the ABCP 2022 Annual Conference or paying the membership fee, ABCP members are required to log into their account on this website first to be able to access the relevant online form. This is needed for the ABCP admin team to track renewed memberships more easily.
    • If you do not know how to log into your account or forget your password of your account on the ABCP website, please read this guidance for help. If you see an error message saying that your account has not been activated, please contact us at contact@abcp.org.uk for manual activation.

More detailed guidelines for different scenarios are given below.

If you are an ABCP Member but haven’t paid your 2022-23 membership fee

What you should do depends on if you have decided to attend Day 1 of the 2022 ABCP Annual Conference in person:

If you are an ABCP Member and have paid your 2022-23 membership fee, and want to attend the 2022 ABCP Annual Conference

Just log into your user account and register for the Conference by selecting “Yes, in-person participation (2022/23 membership renewed) (£ 0)”.

If you are not an ABCP member, want to attend the 2022 ABCP Annual Conference and also join the ABCP as a member from 2022

Please take the following actions sequentially:

  1. Register your ABCP membership (as a Full Member or as an Associate Member).
  2. Contact contact@abcp.org.uk to activate your account.
  3. Log into your user account created together with your membership registration.
  4. Register to attend the Conference by selecting “Yes, in-person participation (2022/23 membership not yet renewed) (£20)”.

If you are not an ABCP member and have already registered to attend the 2022 ABCP Annual Conference as a non-member, but now want to join the ABCP as a member from 2022

Please simply register your ABCP membership (as a Full Member or as an Associate Member).

If you are not an ABCP member and will not attend the 2022 ABCP Annual Conference, but want to join the ABCP as a member from 2022

Please follow the actions below sequentially:

  1. Register your ABCP membership (as a Full Member or as an Associate Member).
  2. Log into your user account created together with your membership registration.
  3. Pay your 2022-23 membership fee using this link.

Any other situations?

If you feel your case is not properly covered by the above listed situations, contact us at contact@abcp.org.uk for further advice.