RIBA hikes membership fees
Rise is first in four years
The cost of the RIBA’s annual subscription will rise to £383, up from £370, from September.
The 3.5% increase is in line with the consumer price index.
In a RIBA council meeting yesterday (Thursday) councillors had voted in favour of a £385 subscription for the RIBA but the vote was declared invalid after Owen Luder pointed out that it wasn’t properly motioned or seconded.
RIBA president Angela Brady, who was in favour of the £385 price tag, was then forced into a u-turn to keep the £383 fee.
Stephen Hodder, vice-president for membership, said the move would bring in an extra £177,000 of fees a year, adding that it would help keep hardship fees down for out-of-work architects.
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Readers' comments (15)
I cant imagine any out of work architects actually bother with the RIBA at all considering how little it does for them. Certainly I never join the RIBA unless a firm requires it from me and is willing to pay the fee themselves. Presently I am not in the ARB either and I don't miss either of them.
"RIBA hikes membership fees"
"...Brady... was then forced into a u-turn..."
A hike is a disproportionate increase in price. If it is in line with the CPI, then it is not a hike.
A u-turn is an about-face, the reluctant adoption of an opposing policy. Reducing the size or intensity of a policy is not a u-turn.
Irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the RIBA's decision, it is sad to see BD condoning ever-poorer reporting. Why, in a paper ostensibly aimed at a professional readership, is it necessary to so cheaply sensationalise everything?
Would it not have been sufficient to report the facts of the decision and let the readership draw its own positive or negative conclusion? Or is it BD's intention to mock or otherwise disparage Ms Brady?
The RIBA should get recognition for the bold strategy document it has released.
Very powerful objectives and if followed I will happily pay a small increase.
However, I would want to see this money going towards these objectives.
i call all members to boycott the RIBA gravel train
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A 4-year freeze followed by a CPI-linked increase? Hardly a 'hike'!
I'm a little amazed that an argument took place about the additional cost that would not buy a pint of beer. Isn't this a waste of committee time?
A hike, in British English (and we're talking about the Royal Institute of *British* Architects) is a long walk.
it tastes worse than the gravy train
Why is it not 1000 pounds. This is very very annoying, have to continue robbing shirt with poor underpaid architects for the foreseeable future. Now for seriousness, the RIBA should be abolished and shut down.Giving its pointlessness in every sense and purpose of the word. All it is is just a failed and fading quango milked by connected masons. The building should be sold and the money used to buy beer and dorritos for every Architects office and student every month of the year. If PC people start foaming around the mouth the entire money should be then invested in shares of Guinness and Fosters amber nectar and the dividend paid to all registered members pre abolition and sale. Hanging onto the mirage of the delusional badge is just pitiful denial. It does not pay and you are less likely to earn more than a junior secretary in an investment bank, Please do not claim you are not working for money