A facility or an associate membership can be taken out on behalf of an individual aquatic and recreation facility or by an organisation working within the industry (discounts available for multiple facilities). Both categories of membership provide the same level of benefits, including:
- two individual memberships to ARV (including one voting member) that can be shared amongst your organisation's or facility's staff
- the ability to spread membership and profesisonal development benefits across a range of staff by just quoting the membership number
- preferential booking and access for staff to a wide range of professional development opportunities at discounted prices including
- ARV Industry Conference,
- ARV Aquatics Conference (AquaSummit),
- industry breakfasts and lunches,
- seminars,
- workshops and
- study tours
- discounted 'member only' price for industry programs such as 'Watch Around Water'
- voting rights at ARV’s Annual General Meeting
- the ability to nominate for the position of Convenor of ARV’s Standing Committees
- access to the Facility and Associate members’ area on the website
- access to members’ only web resources and forums
- access to industry benchmarking information
- access to industry policy, technical advice and research
- a copy of ARV’s Facility Management Manual
- access to regular ARV industry news via 'ARV Online'
- industry Email Alerts directed to your inbox
- discounted fees on ARV Strategic Consultancy Services
- a framed individually designed certificate featuring your Facility or Organisation’s logo
In addition to these benefits, ARV Facility or Associate members will also receive associated membership benefits of being aligned with ALFA. These will include:
- policy guides
- monthly e-news magazines and updates
- access to web resources, forums and interest groups via the ALFA website
- industry benchmarking information
- access to a national audience of colleagues
