Membership Terms and Conditions

1. Summary

BforB meetings are held on a bi-weekly basis. Your attendance at each meeting is vital to develop more business for you and for your colleagues in your club. BforB reserves the right to change, alter and vary these terms and conditions from time to time.

2. Membership Fees and Payments

You are required to pay a yearly membership fee which entitles you to be a member of a BforB club. Fee options include:

1. Annually $799 including GST, paid in advance.
2. Quarterly $999 - 4 installment of $249.75
3. $49 one off joining fee

Fees may be increased annualy on 1 January each calandar year by an amount of CPI or $25, whichever is the greater amount. All fees are automated and paid through BforB's direct debit supplier.

Cleared funds must be received within 5 days unless agreed otherwise with the BforB representative, as commented in the comments section within box 3 overleaf.Payments not made within the 5 day period will incur a debt recovery fee. Upon acceptance of your membership of BforB the yearly membership fee is non-refundable. Membership Fees are paid to BforB Australia Pty Ltd, PO Box3187, Robina Town Centre, QLD 4230.

Members are required to complete a Direct Debit for payment of fortnightly meeting costs, on joining, as payments are not accepted at the door.

3. The Club Rules

The success of the club is based on regular attendance of members, mutual understanding and the vigour provided by guests invited to meetings. Upon your anticipated nonattendance at a club you are asked to:

3.1 As soon as reasonably practicable before the meeting inform a member of the Executive Team of your inability to attend.

3.2 If possible arrange for someone to represent you at the meeting. Representatives can be business colleagues, business or personal contacts, or a BforB member from another meeting club.

3.3 Upon finding a suitable representative, as soon as reasonably practicable, inform a member of the Executive Team of their planned attendance at the meeting. Sufficient information regarding the representatives’ business sector should be imparted at this stage to enable the Executive Team to assess whether the representative’s business conflicts with that of another club members’ business. Representatives and any guests that you invite to meetings, must always discuss potential conflicts of business with a member of the Executive Team at the beginning of the meeting.

A representative that attends in your place, and any guests you invite may, at the entire discretion of the Executive Team, be given the opportunity to promote their business to the club at the meeting. Your representative must first promote your business to the club, within the “members section” of the meeting and may then be invited to promote their business within the “guest section” of the meeting. A time lapse should always pass between the promotion of the two businesses, to add clarity and avoid confusion amongst member’s of the club.

The opportunity for your representative and/or guests to promote their business to the club can be restricted if the Executive Team deem there to be a business conflict with another member of the club. A representative prevented from addressing the club in such a way still represents your business on your behalf. Representative and guests may distribute their business cards to members at the meeting, but these must not be placed in the member’s business card box, which is strictly for the business cards of member’s alone.

Members must not be absent from more than two meetings per quarter without representation (“the Attendance Criteria”). Members are required to meet with all of the club members on a one to one basis no less than once in each year of membership (“the One to One Meeting Criteria”). This is to enhance your mutual understanding of the businesses of your fellow club members. Upon participating in a one to one meeting you should complete a referral/progress form and hand it to a member of the Executive team.

Members are required to pass no less then 6 genuine referrals in relation to fellow club member’s businesses, to individuals and businesses outside of the club in each year of membership (“the Referral Criteria”). Members must bring to meetings no less than 4 different guests in a year of membership (“the Guest Criteria”). Guests who attend but are unable to promote their business to the club due to a conflict of business with a club member do not count towards the Guest Criteria. At each meeting there will be an opportunity for the membership present to discuss member compliance with the club rules stated above. Should the members believe a particular member is not meeting his/her obligations regarding any of the following: the Attendance Criteria; the One to One Meeting Criteria; the Referral Criteria; the Guest Criteria; any other club rule specified above, any term or condition herein members should inform the Executive Team, who will confirm whether any of the obligations have not been met by the member in their discretion.

Following a finding of non-compliance by the Executive Team, the executive team may vote on a majority basis on whether to serve a written notice of non-compliance to the member. No further action will be taken if the executive team vote against a notice. If the members vote to serve the notice the Executive Team shall issue the notice as soon as reasonably practicable. If the Executive Team decide that the member has failed to rectify his/her non compliance within 2 months of receipt of notice, the Executive Team may at the next appropriate meeting vote on a majority basis on whether to either: open up that member’s business category so as to enable the recruitment of another by a member of the Executive Team, and given 7 days in which to serve a notice to appeal the decision, on a member of the Executive Team. Failure to serve a notice to appeal in time will result in the Executive Team’s decision standing. If a notice to appeal is correctly served by the member, the Executive Team will hear and decide upon the members appeal, as soon as reasonably practicable and implement their final decision. There is no further right to appeal the decision made by the Executive Team.

4. Training and Support

An effective networking training course will be provided for you to fast track your networking ability and provide you with information about BforB. You will be further informed of this training opportunity upon attending your first meeting. The training course should be regarded as mandatory; and every attempt should be made by yourself to attend the training as without it the effectiveness of the meetings will be reduced. This training may be held at your regular meeting or at another time.

Each member’s club has an appointed Executive Team which controls and oversees the smooth running of the club. The Executive Team comprises of:

1. a Moderator;
2. a Co-ordinator; and,
3. a Host.

BforB will assign a representative of BforB Australia Pty Ltd to your club. This representative will be in regular contact with your Executive Team to assist with the support and development of your club.

5. Miscellaneous

Members acknowledge that any and all of the intellectual property rights including but not limited to: trade marks and trading names, whether or not registered copyrights, registered and unregistered design rights, patents, know how and all confidential information owned by BforB shall at all times remain the sole property of BforB. Members are not permitted to use any of the intellectual property rights owned by BforB without the prior written consent of BforB which may contain restrictions and limitations.

BforB has no obligation, duly or liability to any BforB members in contract, tort or otherwise, for any services or goods provided by any member of a BforB club.

BforB does not give any warranties as to the suitability of BforB members to undertake any services they may provide as a result of being a member of BforB, nor does it warrant as to the level skill and care taken by a member when providing such services.

BforB does not give any implied or express warranties as to any goods provided by members, as a result of being a BforB member.