What it unlocks, and when.
Advice when an inspector calls. A handbook that keeps you compliant. Recognition you can put on your packaging. And nine hundred subscribers reading the same magazine you appear in.
What every member gets.
Eight benefits included with every membership, at every tier. Corporate membership then adds the commercial extras on top.
Quarterly industry magazine
Trends and news. Ice Cream magazine lands four times a year, in print and as a digital edition, and it is the only trade magazine for the UK market.
Insightful webinars
Inform your business. Sessions run through the year on the subjects members actually ask about, from compliance to selling through a difficult season.
Free competition entries
Parlour of the Year Award and the Golden Scoop Awards. Entry is included with membership, which covers a large part of the fee on its own.
Food management handbooks
Ensure compliance. A full food safety management handbook written for ice cream businesses rather than general catering.
One to one legal and technical advice
Direct support. Speak to a named technical consultant about labelling, composition, enforcement visits and the law as it applies to you.
One to one gelato chef
Recipe support. A working gelato chef to talk through formulation, texture problems and new lines before you commit to a production run.
One to one HR support
Protect your business. Contracts, seasonal staff, disciplinary process and the questions that get expensive if you get them wrong.
Community support
Connect and collaborate. Nine regional divisions, the show, the awards night and a trade that answers the phone when you call.
£280
a year
- All eight member benefits
- Free Parlour of the Year entry
- Free Golden Scoop entry
- Six insightful webinars a year
- Free editorials and press releases
£290
a year
- All eight member benefits
- For businesses based outside the UK
- Digital edition of the magazine
- Division membership by arrangement
£640
a year
- Everything in Standard, plus:
- Free product and service listing, worth £700 plus VAT
- Half page advert in the magazine
- Ten per cent off all advertising
- Discount on a stand at the Ice Cream & Artisan Food Show
- Additional free Golden Scoop entries
Every tier, side by side.
| Benefit | Standard | Corporate | Overseas |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual fee | £280 | £640 | £290 |
| Quarterly industry magazine | Yes | Yes | Digital |
| Insightful webinars | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Free competition entries | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Food management handbooks | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| One to one legal and technical advice | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| One to one gelato chef, recipe support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| One to one HR support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Community support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Classified advertising | No | Free | Free |
| Editorials and press releases | Free | Free | Free |
| Product and service listing | £700 plus VAT | Free | £700 plus VAT |
| Half page magazine advert | No | Included | No |
| Discount on all advertising | No | Ten per cent | No |
| Discount on a stand at the Ice Cream & Artisan Food Show | No | Yes | No |
| Regional division membership | Yes | Yes | By arrangement |
| Vote at the annual general meeting | Yes | Yes | No |
Fees shown are annual. Scroll the table sideways on a small screen to see every tier.
Standard
- The complete advice and compliance package
- One free Golden Scoop entry
- Six insightful webinars a year
Corporate
- Three free Golden Scoop entries
- Half page advert and a free listing
- Ten per cent off all advertising
- Discount on a show stand
Overseas
- For businesses based outside the UK
- Full advice, handbook and magazine
- One free Golden Scoop entry
Find your business in here.
You run a parlour, cafe or dessert shop
Your risks are allergens, labelling, staff turnover and an environmental health visit you cannot predict. Your opportunity is recognition that brings people through the door.
Membership gives you the food safety management handbook to build your systems on, technical advice when a customer asks a question you cannot answer, and a free entry to Parlour of the Year, which is worth £250 plus VAT on its own.
Apply as a parlourFree Parlour of the Year entry
Non members pay £250 plus VAT. Members enter at no cost and can display their scoops rating all year.
Allergen and labelling support
Get your counter signage and product information checked before anyone else checks it for you.
Free classified advertising
Sell equipment, recruit staff or find a partner in the only magazine the trade actually reads.
You trade from a van or a mobile unit
Street trading consents, pitch disputes, chimes legislation, vehicle compliance and seasonal cash flow. Mobilers face a set of problems no general business group understands.
The alliance has represented mobilers since the trade began, and our technical team deals with these questions every week. Best Soft Serve at the Golden Scoop Awards is a class created specifically for mobile operators.
Apply as a mobilerBest Soft Serve class
A Golden Scoop class for vanilla based soft serve from mobile operators, with fresh delivery to Derby head office.
Trading and licensing advice
Practical help with consents, pitches and the rules that apply to trading from a vehicle.
You make ice cream, gelato or lollies at scale
Compositional standards, ingredient declarations, retailer audits and export questions. When the rules move, you need to know before your customers do.
Members get the technical consultation, the handbook and the consultation responses. Corporate membership adds three free Golden Scoop entries, a free product and service listing and ten per cent off every advertising rate.
Apply as a makerThree free competition entries
Corporate members enter three Golden Scoop classes at no cost, with written feedback on each.
Standards and compliance
Guidance on composition, labelling and the documentation retailers ask for.
Show presence
Exhibit at the Ice Cream & Artisan Food Show in front of more than seven thousand trade visitors.
You supply the trade
Machinery, ingredients, packaging, parts or services. Your buyers are all in one place, and they check the directory before they call anyone else.
Corporate membership includes a free product and service listing worth £700 plus VAT, a half page advert in the magazine and ten per cent off everything else in the rate card. Head office also uses the listing when answering member enquiries.
Apply as a supplierFree product and service listing
Worth £700 plus VAT. Logo, contact details and around one hundred and fifty words in print and online.
Ten per cent off all advertising
Applies to display, inserts, digital and listings across the whole rate card.
First point of reference
The head office team answers buyer enquiries from the member directory every working day.
You are opening your first ice cream business
You need to know what the law expects, what equipment actually works, what a good margin looks like and who to trust. Most of that is knowledge other members already have.
Start with the handbook and the training courses, join your regional division to meet people locally, and enter Best Newcomer at the Golden Scoop Awards, a class for businesses trading under three years.
Apply as a new businessBest Newcomer class
A Golden Scoop class reserved for businesses trading for less than three years.
Training courses
Food safety, allergen management and practical ice cream making, run by people who know the trade.
Your regional division
Local meetings where you can ask the questions you do not want to ask a supplier.
What sits behind sign in.
These are member only resources. Sign in to open them, or join today and get access straight away.
Food safety management handbook
The full documented system, ready to adapt to your premises and print for inspection.
Ice Cream magazine archive
Every digital edition, searchable, including the technical features and market data.
Member documents
Templates, allergen matrices, consultation responses and the annual report.
Competition entry
Enter Golden Scoop classes and Parlour of the Year using your included free entries.
One free competition entry pays for a lot of the fee.
Apply online and the membership team will confirm your division and set up your account.