Membership Benefits
Leading Edge members are from a variety of backgrounds and a wide range
of companies but they all have one thing in common – the desire to advance
their career in the food and grocery industry.
Whether you want to benefit from the knowledge and skills offered at our events or
to build your industry contacts by networking with other members, you will find
that Leading Edge membership offers you a fantastic opportunity for developing yourself
and your career.
When you join Leading Edge, you will benefit from:
- Insight – Keep up to date on industry topics and key trends via our website
- Contacts – Build a network to help further your career both at events and online
- Ownership – Tools to take charge of your own career development
- Evidence – Certificates to highlight your training for appraisals and CV
- Value – Over £3,500* worth of FREE training at our nationwide events
Remember, membership is free so you have nothing to lose!
New member offer
Sign up for membership now and take advantage of our fantastic offer of
a complimentary six month subscription to The Grocer
magazine when you attend two or more Leading Edge events
in your first year of membership.
Join online today!
Helping Leading Edge
There are many ways in which you can get involved with Leading Edge - ranging from helping us promote events within your company to providing a venue for us to use. Your help really does make a difference!
Add to our website
We are always looking for members to feature on our site, so why not become a featured member? All you need to do is fill in a short questionnaire and provide us with a photograph and we will put your profile together for you. Some examples of profiles can be found here, and you can fill in the survey here.
Become a Leading Edge Champion
Our Champions are – simply put – big fans of Leading Edge! They are a group of people who support what we as an initiative are involved with and the events that we organise.
What is involved?
Your level of involvement as a champion is really up to you; you may want to fully participate in promoting Leading Edge and our events across your organisation, and we’ll give you the tools to do that, or you may just wish to be a silent supporter.
You will occasionally get slightly different communications containing extra posters and resources that you can distribute amongst your colleagues, and we will earmark you as a first point of contact within your organisation for Leading Edge engagement, however, there are often multiple Champions within companies, so if you’re too busy to help, don’t worry!
How we can support your efforts
Leading Edge is a great way to support personal and professional training within your organisation, and what’s more, it’s free! However, we understand that it can be difficult to find time to explain to colleagues the benefits of becoming a member, which is why we offer free engagement sessions to companies who wish to utilise our resources to the full! Drop us an email and we’ll come along and run a small session to highlight the benefits, talk through our upcoming calendar.
Email us to become a champion!
Host an event
We are always looking for new venues in which to host events - all across the UK. If you think you may have a suitable space and don't mind external visitors coming along for events in the evenings, why not think about hosting an event for us? This can also be a simple but effective way to get your company engaged with IGD and Leading Edge.
Contact us about hosting an event
Sponsor our Convention
Contact us for more details about sponsorship opportunities