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Regular (currently fortnightly) exclusive online meetings for discussing topics of interest to all, asking for help or advice, social media groups and physical gatherings.

Access to the extensive and continually updated online repository of articles, research reports, guidance and other resources relating to edible insects.

Our Members page is the go-to place on the Internet for those looking to link to edible insect businesses in the UK and has a profile of each with a link to your own sites.

Our newsletter goes to a mailing list with 600 (and growing) of a wide range of people interested in edible insects in the UK, with a very respectable click-through rate. Members can promote their products, launches, etc. through items in our newsletter – up to 3 a year included in your membership. Beyond that, it will be on commercial terms.

We are developing a programme of face to face events, based on our members’ interests. We aim for these to be a strong combination of networking within the sector and with key sector partners such as major retailers. Members will be able to promote their businesses through exhibitions and tastings and will have heavily discounted registration fees.

We proactively look for services that meet the needs of our members but where costs may be a challenge, and negotiate ways of sharing the costs between multiple members. Our most notable success in this has been in building clubs that all contributed to the huge costs of developing Novel Food evidence dossiers for the FSA.

Opportunities to take part in campaigns and events to have your products listed, promoted at major food sector exhibitions and considered by national supermarkets and other retail chains.

We have been successful in building a strong, constructive relationship with the FSA and have achieved some notable successes in presenting members’ views and needs and influencing policy. We intend to continue to identify policies and Regulations that impede the sector and to work with the public sector agencies involved to find solutions. We always consult our members in doing this, so as to ensure the resulting policies are workable in the context of their business practices as well as supportive of their aims.

The UKEIA team has built up considerable knowledge and experience through working with the sector. While we don’t have first hand experience of farming insects or selling food products, we have a good grasp of these domains and the resources and policy/guidance that could be helpful. We also can directly facilitate dialogue between members where there is an issue or a query.

We can form groups within the membership that reflect different interests and needs. Thus, we have different “clubs” for those looking to see specific insect species approved as Novel Foods and have an Insect Farming group. We also form groups around projects – working with universities on a particular area of research can be the basis for this. New members will be invited to consider joining one or more of these.

We have identified and forged relationships with specialists operating in domains of relevance to the edible insect sector. Some of these offer favourable terms to UKEIA members, while others are simply well-regarded by the sector and have invested time in getting to know your particular needs and challenges. Examples include organisations offering support for strategic marketing, seeking and securing research/innovation funding opportunities, invertebrate veterinarian support.