Membership information centre

Start by logging in to your member account. Then, click the ‘My account’ drop down list in the top right hand corner of the screen, and then click ‘Membership details’. This page includes everything that you have access to within your organisation.

Alternatively, you can contact hello@socitm.net and your membership details can be sent over.

Essential: 15, Essential+: 20, Enhanced: 50, Executive: Unlimited

An individual membership is given to an employee within your organisation. Each membership level allows for a different number of individual members. At the Executive level, your whole team/organisation can benefit from being part of our community.

Included in all packages

We know your workloads mean it’s not always possible to find time to read and absorb complex information in a working day. Our webinars, make it easier and less time consuming to access practical information and exclusive learning resources. Join us live or watch recordings at a time to best suit you. They generally take place every Wednesday and every third Friday of the month at 1pm.

Included in all packages

Our member-only research publications are specifically tailored to provide members with the information you need when you need it most, produced by and designed for the public sector. All our research – both member-only and open access – is published within our resource hub.

We encourage all members to submit blogs, documents, reports, podcasts, webinars and so on that have been helpful – sharing resources only adds further weight to the extensive range of peer-approved content.

Points per organisation: Essential: 4, Essential+: 8, Enhanced: 12, Executive: 16

Our training is designed to harness, develop, and promote the confidence and talent of you and your team. It takes place both in physical and virtual sessions, depending on the training. Unique, inspirational, and universally well-received, our courses support you to invest in individuals, empowering them to confidently take risks and challenge conventions imaginatively.

Graduates are part of our alumni community where mentoring, collaboration and support help develop a bright, vibrant and dynamic group of future leaders for our sector.

Applies to both in-person and virtual Leadership Academy programmes.

Included in all corporate packages

Our annual President’s Conference (in person or online) unites the UK’s most influential public sector digital leaders for networking, keynotes, workshops, and discussion. Themed around our key policy areas, it provides delegates with the latest insights, authoritative information, practical know-how and inspiring stories. It is an opportunity for the entire Socitm community to come together.

This event also hosts our awards ceremony where we acknowledge and celebrate the hard work, vision, success, best practice and personal achievements of digital leaders in the public sector.

Places per organisation: Essential: 1, Essential+: 2, Enhanced: 2, Executive: 3

Our President’s Conference dinner is a spectacular evening with a three-course meal, live music, awards ceremony, and more, that enhances professional and personal networks.

Hotel rooms per organisation:
Essential: none, Essential+: 2, Enhanced: 2, Executive: 3

For members attending in person, hotel accommodation at the venue or nearby will be provided.

Included in all packages

Guided by our key policy themes and hosted by our President’s Team, these events examine and explore important issues in depth. Whether in-person or virtual (or both) they provide a platform for high-level knowledge sharing among digital leaders and their teams. Discover information, case studies and gain confidence to encourage positive change.

Included in all packages

Regular meetings for and with Socitm’s 10 regional groups strengthen relationships, inspire innovation and provide a platform for sharing best practice.

These events allow delegates to discuss specific challenges affecting local areas and inspire the creation of local solutions with national implications.

Included in all packages

New regulations have been in place for public sector bodies since September 2018 that require websites and mobile apps to be ‘perceivable, operable, understandable and robust’. Developed in partnership with Silktide, our website testing service measures the accessibility of your website and apps. Use it to help you be more inclusive for the community you serve.

Per package: Essential: 2 hours, Essential+: 2 hours, Enhanced: Half day lab, Executive: Full day lab

Socitm Advisory can advise on any digital, ICT and service design related query across the public sector and they will ensure the expertise they provide is at an appropriate level of seniority to reflect the seniority or requirement of the client.

Hours per package: Essential: 0, Essential+: 0, Enhanced: 4, Executive: 8

Access one-to-one mentoring with our leadership manager, Aidan Matthews. During the sessions you will have chance to create a personal profile to help understand areas of strengths and identify development opportunities.

As a leader, you can also use the sessions to create a team profile using Belbin Team Roles or Prism Team Dynamics which will give you a unique insight in how your team is operating and actions to create stronger performance.

Access to plan: Executive members only

The Leadership Academy programmes are designed to run with delegates from different organisations.

However, we do appreciate that to most benefit our members more, some of these can be tailored to meet the requirements of a single organisation or team. Our training director can work with you to tailor a programme for you.

A Socitm member is someone who is part of the Socitm community – via either a membership with their organisation or individually.

Socitm members have access to networking opportunities, publications, virtual events, physical events and much more.

A member organisation is the public sector organisation that has signed up to be part of the Socitm community. The size of this organisation is not limited to a specific number of staff.

A member is an individual person within a member organisation.

Any public sector organisation, e.g. local government, central government, blue light, housing, social care, education etc.

They are our main point of contact for their organisation. This person is our first point of call with anything to do with their membership, such as billing, updating contact details, updating organisation details, and assigning Leadership Academy training points.

It is also their responsibility to encourage their colleagues to take part and engage with Socitm activities.

They are someone, assigned by the lead member, who manages the contact details of their organisation. This can be adding and removing new/old colleagues, updating their contact details and generally being a positive influence for the rest of the organisation and encouraging engagement.

Once you are logged in, click the ‘My account’ drop down list in the top right hand corner of the screen. Then click ‘Membership details’. This page includes everything that you have access to within your organisation.

Alternatively, you can contact hello@socitm.net and your membership details can be sent over.

If you are a member, you should be able to create an account on the website. If you are experiencing problems doing this, please make sure you are creating an account first and then you can log in. For instructions on how to do this, read our guide on how to create an account.

If you are still having problems with your account, please contact hello@socitm.net for further assistance.

Head to the events and training section the top of your screen and there you will find all events that you have access to.

Once you have identified which event you would like to attend, you can click ‘book your place’ and complete the short registration form.

Contact hello@socitm.net and the team can check that you are set up correctly and are subscribed to receive the emails.

Your main or admin member can log onto their account and head to the ‘manage organisation’ page and click on the drop down next to each name to edit that person’s details (main corporate members can also remove employees), or add users by clicking ‘add user’ at the top of the page.

Alternatively, if you are struggling, please contact hello@socitm.net and we will be more than happy to help.

Once you are logged into your account, and on the home dashboard, scroll down the page until you see a button saying ‘check your website’s accessibility score’. Once clicked, a new page will open with your personalised report to work from.

If this button is greyed out and you are unable to click it, please contact hello@socitm.net.

Depending on what corporate membership your organisation has, you have between 4 and 16 points. Each of our programmes and workshops are worth a certain number of points. So, when you book your training, this number of points will be deducted from your organisation’s total.

Before you book, the page will display the amount of points your chosen training is worth.

Your main corporate member will always need to confirm the use of Leadership Academy points.

Please contact hello@socitm.net and we will be more than happy to discuss upgrading options.