Membership

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Only £45 p.a. Full membership of ShareSoc gives you ALL^* the benefits for less than 90p per week! Entitling you to 6 Premium events including Masterclasses in 2023 (saving you at least £105 on events alone!).

If you would like to support ShareSoc but do not wish to become a member you can click here to make a donation.

Full Members’ complete range of unique and valuable benefits are shown in the table below and examples include:

Comprehensive 16 page + newsletter at least 4 times a year, focused on topics of particular interest to private investors, including unique reports on companies
Exclusive company research tool
AGM reports
Voting guidance for FTSE30 companies
Priority booking at events
Exclusive on-line Forums
Discounted membership of SIGnet – a national network of individual investor groups across the UK
PLUS special discounts available from partner organisations. See: Member Offers
Only Full and SIGnet Members have ShareSoc voting rights and elect the directors.

Associate Membership is FREE but your benefits are reduced e.g. a summary newsletter, may be unable to attend / charged more for ShareSoc events etc. All we ask of Associate members is that you have an interest in stock market investment and support our aims.

We strongly encourage you to join as a Full Member as we are a not-for-profit organisation and your membership fees fund the operations of ShareSoc, our campaigning activities and allow us to serve our members more effectively.

^*Except SIGnet exclusive membership benefits, as described below. You can obtain these additional benefits by upgrading to combined ShareSoc/SIGnet full membership for only £15 p.a. in addition to the ShareSoc full membership fee.

SIGnet membership (or a combined ShareSoc Full+ SIGnet membership) offers access to the SIGnet investor group network. Through this network, you have the opportunity to gain experience and expand your knowledge through meeting other investors in friendly self-managed groups. SIGnet members also benefit from an exclusive newsletter and dedicated SIGnet member forums. Go here to learn more about SIGnet. Membership of SIGnet costs just £25 p.a. (with a special discounted rate of £15 p.a. for ShareSoc Full members). We also offer a NO QUIBBLE GUARANTEE: If you are not satisfied with your SIGnet membership and advise our office within the first four months of joining, your SIGnet subscription will be refunded and your membership of SIGnet will be terminated. No further debits will be made from your card. Please see the SIGnet Rules for full details. SIGnet membership alone includes all the benefits of associate membership of ShareSoc and carries voting rights in ShareSoc.

Click on an option opposite to get the immediate benefits of Membership. To take up combined ShareSoc/SIGnet membership, please join as a SIGnet member and select the ‘Combined’ subscription option.

Member Entitlements	Associate Member (Free)	Full Member (£45/year)	SIGnet Member (£25/year)	Combined ShareSoc/SIGnet Member (£60/year)
Masterclass & Exclusive Premium events – free of charge		✓ Save at least £75		✓ Save at least £75
"Informer" newsletters: min. 4 per year	Short Version	Full Version	Short Version	Full Version
Monthly SIGnet newsletter			✓	✓
Access to experienced investment experts	Limited	✓	Limited	✓
Participation in Campaigns on behalf of private investors	✓	✓	✓	✓
Networking with fellow investors	Limited	Limited	✓	✓
Participate in SIGnet investor groups			✓	✓
Access to investor resources on web site including: investor educational pages, links to "useful services for investors", recommended reading list for investors and AIM company evaluation scorecard.	Limited	✓	Limited	✓
Opportunities to participate in working groups and consultations	✓	✓	✓	✓
Free priority access to ShareSoc Company Growth webinars / seminars (subject to availability)		✓		✓
Free access to ShareSoc company visits (subject to availability)		✓		✓
Discounts on various investor services e.g:
Stockopedia		✓		✓
ShareScope		✓		✓
Research Tree		✓		✓
Mello Investor Shows		✓		✓
Access to exclusive online resources:
Private investor discussion Forums (excluding dedicated SIGnet forums)		✓		✓
Dedicated SIGnet Private investor discussion Forums			✓	✓
Newsletter archive		✓		✓
SIGnet Newsletter archive			✓	✓
Company AGM report library		✓		✓
Presentations & reports from company seminars		✓		✓
Executive remuneration reports		✓		✓
Book Reviews		✓		✓
Voting rights at ShareSoc General Meetings		✓	✓	✓

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Group description:	The National Group is open to all members of SIGnet. It is intended primarily for new SIGnet members, who may not yet have found another suitable group to join. We aim to welcome new members and discuss their investment interests and current investment topics. Investors with all levels of experience are welcome to join.
Meeting Type/Venue:	Online
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	The National Group meets monthly, on a weekday evening. Meetings are generally from 7-8:30pm.

Group description:	Our group is a broad church that contains investors of varying age and experience. We discuss stocks and investment trusts that we have bought, sold or are interested in and the reasons behind our decisions, and try to make sense of the ever changing investment environment. Our members backgrounds are diverse and include corporate banking, engineering, teaching and the leisure industry. Discussions are robust and challenging but tend to be to be informal, and do not generally involve agendas, presentations or detailed preparation. We are a friendly and approachable group who welcome investors of all levels – we just ask that you contribute, at whatever level you can.
Meeting Type/Venue:	Our meetings are held in a very nice pub near to South Ealing tube station (Piccadilly Line), not far from Ealing Broadway (District, Central and Elizabeth Line). Group numbers permitting (and assuming members are happy to purchase food and drink from the bar), we may also have access to a private room in the pub.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	We meet every 2 months, usually on a Wednesday morning at 11am.

Group description:	An online group for those who already have some experience in investing. Covering topics such as finding companies to invest in, financial statements and ratios, valuation / margin of safety, analysis of companies and investment trusts and exchange traded funds.
Meeting Type/Venue:	Online using Zoom.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	Meetings are usually held on the 3rd Thursday of the month at 7:15pm.

Group description:	An online group for those who are new to investing. Including topics such as how to buy and sell shares, unit trusts, investment trusts, exchange traded funds and diversification, tax and how to save it, pensions, portfolio management and research tools, other asset classes and basic technical analysis.
Meeting Type/Venue:	Online using Zoom.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	Meetings are usually held on the 1st Monday of the month at 7:15pm.

Group description:	This group was formed in September 2023 and meets in-person during the evening in a London pub. The group is open to all investors – a good proportion of the initial membership are experienced investors.
Meeting Type/Venue:	In-person meetings. Pub. Dinner and drinks.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	Monthly on the third Tuesday of the month from 6-9pm.

Group description:	Group focused on active investing, primarily in small / medium cap UK equities.
Meeting Type/Venue:	Regular Zoom meetings interspersed with occasional face to face meetings and social activities in the North West.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	Monthly on Saturdays at 10am.

Group description:	Our group covers a wide spectrum of mainly stock market investing and trading from equities – which include shares, ETF’s Investment and Unit Trusts. We normally rotate the meeting chairperson (responsible for creating, with member’s help, suitable agendas) and a meeting presenter (members take it in turns to provide a 15 to 45 minute presentation on a subject of their choice). Various investing topics of interest are regularly discussed such as software, brokers, investing categories and markets and any related topics of interest.
Meeting Type/Venue:	Meetings will be returning to in-person in a private room at a West London golf club, close to an underground station. In the meantime monthly video calls and an in-between meeting email group will continue.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	In-person meetings will be held on the second Wednesday of each month in the afternoons, following a golf club one course lunch.

Group description:	The Options group has been meeting monthly for some 20+ years and new members who are either trading or interested in trading options are always welcome. Our members trade options predominately on both UK and USA shares, indices, currencies and commodities.
Meeting Type/Venue:	Meetings take place via video call.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	Meetings are monthly, on the 4th Wednesday of each month, normally from 12:30 to 2:30 and sometimes run over.

Group description:	Our group members have wide ranging investment experience and work backgrounds. Discussion topics include reviewing our recent stock or collective investment buying and selling activity, plus what we are considering buying or selling and the reasons for our decisions. We also have a wider discussion on where we think opportunities might arise in the next few months and what we think needs to be avoided. Members occasionally lead discussions on specific topics such as recent events attended, articles or books of interest and sources of investment ideas and information.
Meeting Type/Venue:	Since the pandemic our meetings have been held on Zoom, but the aim is to resume meeting in person at the usual venue which is in a location a few miles to the west of Colchester.
Meeting Frequency/Timing:	We meet midweek every two months. Zoom meetings run for about two hours from 10.30am and in person meetings from 11am until about 3pm, including a break for lunch.