General News

Monthly Meeting Notes

January 6, 2012

The Board has long been aware that the monthly meetings in London are only accessible to a small number of members.

To improve the dissemination of information to all our members we are asking the speakers to make  their notes or presentations available for the Associations website.  Subject to their agreement we will be posting a link in the relevant News section for the talk within a few days after the meeting concerned.

We have already done this for the November meeting - see News, Security Electrical.

Email Service

December 5, 2011

We have found our service from DotMailer for sending out our notices and information mailings to be generally reliable and convenient.

However we are aware that some emails are not getting through. Some are "Soft bounced" usually for say a full in-box at the receivers end or a temporary hitch at the receiving mail server. Some are "Hard bounced". These are incorrect email addresses not recognised by mail servers or sometimes they are regarded as Spam by the servers. This latter is particularly likely on business servers.

If you have not been getting the emails you expect there are a few things which will help us get through. Company IT departments can be asked to "Whitelist" our mail account insurancesurveyors-mail.org. This confirms to the system that the emails are not spam and they are then permitted into the system.  If this cannot be done, an alternative is to use a private email address; so far we have found no problems with any of these services.

Also please be sure to up-date us on your current email address when it changes for any reason by using the contact facility on this site and using the heading "New Email Address".

AiS Award Winner 2011

December 14, 2011

At the AiS Christmas Party on the 9th December our Chairman, Mick Fitch presented the award to Steve Neville OBE in recognition of all his work in and for the Security and Insurance industries.
Steve is well known to us all for his years in the industry, he being a Co-Founder & Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals and being also the second Master.  His award of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours list for his many years of charity work with Security and Firefighting professionals was due recognition of all he has done here too.
We also recall that the parent Association of Burglary Insurance Surveyors awarded the Ken Bolton Memorial Award to him in 1992; our current award can only reinforce the esteem in which he is held.

© The Association of Insurance Surveyors Limited 2011