BA Supporter Lists
Each month the Supporter Development team produce a list of supporters in a particular area, this list is sent to regional officers and branch secretaries. All individuals are described as supporters unless they are Honorary Fellows, Corporate or Institutional nominees. A separate column indicates whether they have membership rights or not - see an example below.

Monthly Regional Reports (PDF 29K)
Written for Regional Officers but applicable to Branch Secretaries, this document explains the membership data sent out in Excel.  It also gives tips and suggestions for how to use the data.

Please note that data protection laws apply to the information sent out to branches - see guidelines below.

Data Protection guidelines (PDF 57K)


Building branch contact lists and data protection statements

In order to build up the BA’s supporter base, it is really important to record the contact details, and particularly email addresses, of those of your event attendees who are interested to hear more about the BA – these can then be forwarded to the BA supporter team to add to the BA’s central database. 

Contacts forwarded to central office will then appear on the supporter lists branches receive every month.

In order to comply with the Data Protection Act, the following statements should be included on any data capture form.

“The BA is a small, supporter-based charity. We ask your permission to contact you to let you know about BA events, activities and supporter opportunities. If you wish to hear about these programmes or supporter opportunities please tick this box now.”

“The BA operates in accordance with the Data Protection Act; we may pass your details on to other carefully selected companies whom we believe may
be of interest to you. If you DO wish to receive mailings from other organisations please tick this box.”

Although people have requested communications from us, email data protection also requires that every email we send gives people the opportunity to opt-out.  Please include the statement below in email communications, this will give the supporter team the opportunity to update the BA database.

“Please Note: The BA respects your privacy. If you do not wish to receive emails regarding our work please let us know by forwarding this email to supporters@the-ba.net, with the title 'unsubscribe'.”