This area is designed to show informal links with other organisations in the marketing and communications fields and give a snapshot of their roles. None of these organisations necessarily endorse B2B Alliance but our member associations belong to many of them.
Advertising Standards Authority (ASA)
The ASA is here to make sure all advertising, wherever it appears, meets the high standards laid down in the advertising codes. Our website will tell you more about the rules for advertising, let you complain online, and explain how the ASA is working to keep UK advertising standards as high as possible.
www.asa.org.uk/asa/
Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)
The Institute is committed to delivering world-class support to equip marketers with the knowledge and tools they need to stay ahead and excel in this most challenging of professions. Through market leading industry awards and practical courses, and professional services which members can call upon whenever they are needed
www.cim.co.uk
Department for Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR)
BERR’s central purpose is to help ensure business success in an increasingly competitive world. It is the voice for business across Government. It leads the Government’s drive to raise UK levels of productivity, create the conditions for business success and strengthen the economic performance of all the regions..
www.berr.gov.uk
Confederation of British Industry (CBI)
The CBI's mission is to help create and sustain the conditions in which businesses in the United Kingdom can compete and prosper for the benefit of all. We are the premier lobbying organisation for UK business on national and international issues. We work with the UK government, international legislators and policy-makers to help UK businesses compete effectively..
www.cbi.org.uk
Federation of European Direct and Interactive Marketing (FEDMA)
FEDMA is the single voice of the European direct and interactive marketing industry. Its national members are direct marketing associations (DMAs) representing users, service providers and media/carriers of direct marketing. FEDMA also has more than 200 direct company members.
www.fedma.org
Financial Services Authority (FSA)
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is an independent non-governmental body, given statutory powers by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000. We are a company limited by guarantee and financed by the financial services industry. The FSA is accountable to Treasury Ministers, and through them to Parliament. It is operationally independent of Government and is funded entirely by the firms it regulates. The FSA is an open and transparent organisation and provides full information for firms, consumers and others about its objectives, plans, policies and rules, including through its website.
www.fsa.gov.uk
ISBA
ISBA represents advertisers. We are the only body to do this. We have a dual role: to protect the freedom to advertise responsibly, and to enhance the effectiveness of our members by delivering substantial and tangible commercial benefits including cost savings, guidance and skills training.
www.isba.org.uk
Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)
The ICO is the UK's independent public body set up to promote access to official information and protect personal information by promoting good practice, ruling on eligible complaints, providing information to individuals and organisations, and taking appropriate action when the law is broken.
www.ico.gov.uk
Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA)
The IPA is the industry body and professional institute for leading advertising, media and marketing communications agencies in the UK. Collectively, IPA members handle over 80% of media spend (worth £13billion in 2004) and a large proportion of the £43billion spent on marketing in the UK each year.
www.ipa.co.uk
Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA)
The Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA UK) is the UK's Trade Association for providers of Internet services.ISPA UK was established in 1995 and promotes competition, self-regulation and the development of the Internet industry. As a trade association, membership is voluntary but the companies who choose to become members of ISPA agree to abide by the ISPA UK Code. ISPA members' allegiance to the Code means that consumers can view the ISPA UK logo as a mark of commitment to good business practice..
www.ispa.org.uk
Mail Users' Association (MUA)
MUA is the UK's only independent association of business users concerned wholly with commercially related postal matters. The organisation is wholly funded by annual membership subscriptions. Members are drawn from a wide range of business interests including direct mail, banking and finance, communications and the Utilities, publishing and postal related industries.
www.mailusers.co.uk
Office of Communications (Ofcom)
Ofcom is the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, with responsibilities across television, radio, telecommunications and wireless communications services.
www.ofcom.org.uk
PhonepayPlus (previously ICSTIS)
PhonepayPlus (previously known as ICSTIS) regulates phone-paid services in the UK. These are the premium rate goods and services that we can buy by charging the cost to our phone bills and pre-pay phone accounts.
wwwphonepayplus.org.uk
The Postal Services Commission (Postcomm)
Postcomm – the Postal Services Commission – is the independent regulator for the postal market. We were set up by the Postal Services Act 2000 and are classified as a non-ministerial government department. Our job is to make sure licensed postal operators – including Royal Mail – meet the needs of their customers throughout the UK..
www.psc.gov.uk
Office of Fair Trading (OFT)
The OFT is the UK's consumer and competition authority. Our mission is to make markets work well for consumers. As an independent professional organisation, the OFT plays a leading role in promoting and protecting consumer interests throughout the UK, while ensuring that businesses are fair and competitive. Our tools to carry out this work are the powers granted to the OFT under consumer and competition legislation..
www.oft.gov.uk
Telephone Preference Service (TPS)
The Telephone Preference Service (TPS) is the central opt out register on which you can record your preference not to receive unsolicited sales and marketing telephone calls to your home or mobile telephone numbers. It is a legal requirement that all organisations (including charities, voluntary organisations and political parties) do not make such calls to numbers registered on the TPS unless they have your consent to do so.
www.tpsonline.org.uk