Membership Benefits
50 reasons to join the MPA:
- Cost-effective: just 36p per day!
- Professional trade body support with over 50 years experience
- International recognition
- Gain a recognised qualification: use letters after your name
- Enter the British Professional Photographic Awards - chance to become UK ProfessionalPhotographer of the Year
- Attend the UK 's premier Awards ceremony
- Experienced staff to take your calls
- Use of MPA logo on your stationery for extra business credibility
- One of the lowest credit card Merchant rates to save you money on your transactions
- Free glossy magazine packed with features, reviews and photographer profiles.
- Free directory listing for your business at the Association's website, www.thempa.com
- Options to upgrade to an enhanced website listing
- Discounts on website design with WPS Media
- Promote your wedding services in Cosmopolitan Bride magazine
- You & Your Wedding magazine directory promotion
- Mentoring service to help you gain and upgrade your qualification
- National family portrait promotions
- Gift vouchers to sell/give to your clients
- Copyright assistance to help you keep control of your images
- Access to the member's only section of the MPA site and online Forum
- Free for sale and wanted ads online - grab a bargain!
- Discounted seminars and workshops across the country: useful to both digital and conventional photographers
- Regional and national meetings so you can network with fellow photographers
- Public awareness programmes in national magazines and newspapers
- On-going business support
- Free mediation service if you experience customer problems
- Advice on contracts
- Discounted insurance cover and free assistance
- Certificate of Competence for your wedding operators
- Free Law Care advice service
- Enhanced Criminal Disclosure service - extra confidence for your clients
- Cherubs National baby promotion programme (subject to postcode availability)
- Qualification certificates and studio wall plaques available
- Range of marketing materials to help you promote your business
- Discounted training DVDs and other training materials
- Discounted membership fees for studio staff
- Manage your clients with our free marketing database
- International speakers
- Upgrading and Assessment seminars and meetings
- Free listing on You & Your Wedding magazine website
- Healthcare savings
- Electronic newsletter
- Corporate advertising in Yellow Pages
- Government representation
- Representation on the British Photographic Liaison Committee (BPLC)
- Free lecture facilities at MPA Head Office
- Latest wedding contracts for members' use
- Your details passed directly to potential clients via head office
- MPA branded carrier bags
- Vehicle breakdown cover discount
- Advertising campaigns promoting Master Photographers
- Entry into the Kodak Wedding & Portrait Awards
- Annual MPA School of Photography