Honorary president: Judith Butcher Honorary vice-president: David Crystal OBE
Benefits
The SfEP offers its associates and members – from beginners to the most experienced – a variety of benefits, from help with finding work to discounts on books. They can find out how to take advantage of these products and services in the Members' area.
All questions about SfEP benefits – and any suggestions for new ones – should be directed to the .
Help getting work
- Entry in the SfEP Directory of Editorial Services. For ordinary and advanced members only.
- Associates Available: advertising by associates, which is transmitted to most members of the SfEP via SfEPAnnounce.
- Suggested minimum rates of pay for freelances, to aid in negotiations.
Regular networking opportunities
- AGM and annual two-day conference, which includes a varied programme of workshops and lectures.
- Access to email discussion groups and an announcement list
- SfEPLine for online discussion and advice
- SfEPAnnounce for announcements and job offers
- special interest groups – e.g. medical, legal.
- Membership of local groups.
Training
- Comprehensive programme of affordable courses – from beginner level to specialist – run by the SfEP at locations around the UK.
- Mentoring schemes in proofreading and copy-editing.
- Training vouchers for new associates to defray the cost of one SfEP course in each of their first two years in the Society, courtesy of the Dorothy Mitchell Smith Memorial Fund.
- Discount on non-residential short courses at Publishing Training Centre.
- Discounts on courses run by a number of other organisations.
Increasing professionalism
- Opportunity to progress from being an associate to having ordinary membership. Among other things, ordinary members are entitled to take an entry in the SfEP Directory, and they can progress to advanced membership.
- Access to the SfEP's professional qualifications Accreditation and Registration.
- Opportunity to qualify for the City & Guilds Licentiateship in Editorial Skills.
- Email address – in the form: name@sfep.net – for advanced members.
- Use of special SfEP logos for advanced members and for registered and accredited proofreaders and copy-editors.
Publications
- Editing Matters, the SfEP's newsletter (six issues/year), free to associates and members.
- SfEP Directory of Editorial Services: online and frequently updated.
- Heavily discounted BSI marks for copy preparation and proof corrections.
Discounts on products, services and subscriptions
- Free 24-hour legal helpline provided by FirstAssist.
- Discounts on language reference books from Oxford University Press.
- Discounts on Geoff Hart's Effective Onscreen Editing and Barbara Horn's Copy-editing.
- Discount on Scientific Style and Format from the Council of Science Editors (Scion Publishing).
- Discount on books published by Profile Books.
- Discount on subscription to Freelancers in the UK register
- Discount on subscription to BookBrunch online newsletter.
- Reduced subscription to BUPA.
Benefits of becoming a corporate associate
The SfEP works to improve communication between editors and proofreaders and their clients. It welcomes as corporate associates all publishing houses and other businesses and organisations that use the services of editors and proofreaders.
Corporate associates:
- automatically receive up to 10 copies of each issue of the SfEP's magazine Editing Matters
- pay reduced fees for SfEP training
- can have inserts in SfEP mailings (subject to a charge to cover costs incurred)
- have access to the annual conference
- have access to email discussion groups, an announcement list and local groups
- can advertise free of charge on SfEPAnnounce an unlimited number of freelance assignments or in-house positions (using the job advert template (61 KB pdf).).
For more information on becoming a corporate associate, see Structure.
SfEP merchandise now available.
Want to offer a benefit to the SfEP membership?
Contact , who coordinates member benefits.
SfEPWiki
This knowledge base has been created by SfEP members and associates – who are the only ones who can access it – and is continually updated, refined and expanded. We hope to build it into the most formidable database on editing, proofreading and related topics.
SfEP membership number
You must give your SfEP membership number to obtain some of these benefits. You can find this number by accessing your entry in the SfEP membership list in the Members' area. Alternatively, contact the SfEP Office.
