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Corporate Membership

Enhance your companies profile

By joining the GAI, your company can benefit from:

Instant recognition and credibility for your company, demonstrating your commitment to the industry.
Your company details listed on the GAI website with authorised use of GAI member company logos.
Members discount on the internationally respected GAI education programme.
Bespoke in-house training services to develop employees.
Regular email updates on new developments on standards, regulatory developments and industry news.
Exclusive access to over 70 pieces of technical guidance on the members’ area of the GAI website.
Reduced members' rates for advertising vacancies on the GAI job shop.

Find the best membership option for your company:

Full Membership

Ideal for architectural ironmongers, hardware manufacturers, distributors and suppliers.

- Full membership is available for distributors and/or manufacturers of door and window hardware (who have a clearly defined distribution policy) in support of architectural ironmongers.

- To qualify for Full membership, the company must employ at least one person holding the GAI Diploma qualification.

GAI Enterprise

Ideal for start-up businesses in the door hardware industry.

- Enterprise membership is available for new companies with less than 12 months trading history, who are not yet at the scale of a full member.

- This membership allows a company to benefit from a whole range of GAI services in the early stage of its development.

Associate

Ideal for service suppliers to the architectural ironmongery industry.

- Associate membership is available for companies and organisations that operate outside of the door hardware industry.

- Associate members must be able to provide a product or service to the industry and GAI members without conflict of interest.

GAI Affiliate

Ideal for smaller door and window hardware distributors and manufacturers.

- Affiliate membership is available for distributors and manufacturers of architectural ironmongery who do not satisfy the Full membership criteria.

- Affiliates can only be members for five years and should have a minimum of one person on the GAI Diploma Programme.