The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25th May 2018, but do you know how it will affect you and your members? Here’s five things you should know:#1 The UK’s decision to leave the EU will NOT affect the date of commencement or your need to adhere to the regulationIf you operate in the EU, regardless of whether you are based in or outside the area, you will need to comply. If you are a UK-only organisation and have no EU contact data, the advice is stillSEE DETAILS

In the olden days – and possibly even today CRM suppliers tended to assume that NFPs were simple organisations. They are not. They require just as much time to understand and unpack the ways in which people work, and the system they employ, as more complex businesses. But in their naivety many under-estimated the time and budget required. Which resulted in budget over-runs, suspicion, and friction on both sides.Hart Square often gets involved in ‘salvage’ situations. Picking up projects that have already gone a bit wrong. “Although this is aSEE DETAILS

Look and Learn was a British weekly educational magazine for children published by Fleetway Publications Ltd from 1962 until 1982. It contained educational text articles that covered a wide variety of topics from volcanoes to the Loch Ness Monster (1). But the secret of its twenty-year success was to present that information in a gripping graphic format that cemented facts in children’s enquiring minds.‘Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it speaks,’ wrote John Berger (2). Neuroscience has subsequently established the power of visualisation in human cognition. Images are indelibly etched in theSEE DETAILS <span class="more-link-hover-imag...

Biba to increase fees by 2.5% for 2018The British Insurance Brokers’ Association (Biba) is to increase the fees it charges to members by 2.5% in 2018, according to Insurance Age. More…Learning by Questions Joins BESA LaunchpadLearning by Questions, the new teaching and learning programme conceived by EdTech pioneer Tony Cann CBE has this become the latest company to join the Launchpad arm of the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA). More…Nominations for ACS Deals of the Year Awards Open The Deals of the Year Awards champion the outstanding work of treasurers and theirSEE DETAILS

NAJ Appoints Simon ForresterThe National Association of Jewellers, which was formed in 2015 by the merger of the British Jewellers’ Association (BJA) and National Association of Goldsmiths (N.A.G), and represents businesses operating in the jewellery industry, has appointed Simon Forrester as its new chief executive. He replaces Michael Rawlinson, who left the NAJ role after less than two years.Simon won the Trade Association Chief Executive of the Year award in 2016 and most recently ran the British Pest Control Association the trade body for public health pest control. He hasSEE DETAILS