Collective Membership Benefits

The Collective strives to enable location managers to help themselves and each other, both financially and operationally.  The ongoing development of our problem-solving resources and discussion platforms relies on the contribution of all members.  With over 500 years of collective knowledge and experience there is fantastic scope for information-sharing. 

It is our objective to work with industry organisations to enable dialogue and enhance the relationship between locations personnel and all linked roles within the industry.  With our membership currently standing at 128 and likely to grow considerably over the course of the next year, we intend to represent the location manager's voice where possible and contribute to the continuous improvement of standards in location management.

Our location database is the amalgamation of our 128 location manager members' individual location portfolios. Members of The Collective can submit as many locations as they like for inclusion in our online location library.  Our website receives thousands of visits every month from affluent, high profile productions from every sector of the location industry - feature films, television, photgraphic stills and events. 

As well as promoting locations through our online location library, for special locations with considerable filming appeal, we create devoted marketing emails targeted at our entire location manager membership as well as relevant producers, production managers and production companies interested in learning about your location.

Any time a location submitted by you is hired, you receive a royalty of 5% of the total hire fee.  You can submit as many locations as you like.  This structure allows you to give your bank balance a real boost!  Find out more about payment and fees by clicking here.

The idea behind The Collective Card is to attract a range of suppliers, who are interested in offering Collective members meaningful discounts on relevant location industry products and services, helping you to minimise production costs and get more out of your budget.

The Collective is delighted to have in place an exclusive agreement with Makin Movies Location Support, whereby Collective members receive a 15% discount on ratecard prices for all vehicles and equipment hired through Makin Movies. This discount is only available to Collective members.  Click here for more information...

Members also receive a discounted rate on services offered by Riverside Environmental, including surveying and sampling for location issues like Asbestos, Noise, Dust and many others.  More information here...

GandG Location Equipment offer Collective members a discounted rate on floor protection board.  More information on board specifications, and contact details here...

Apart from enabling access to member discounts, the card acts as useful means of identifying yourself as a location manager.

The ‘Watercooler’ is where you can pose questions and ask for advice from within the membership on varied but unquantifiable problems. This service acts as an emergency service when, as a location manager, you are blindsided and need a solution to a problem quickly.

This free service is there to assist all members in their day-to-day roles in the most efficient manor possible. There is close to over 500 years of location management experience within the company and it is highly likely that another member has solved either the exact same or a comparable problem, and can offer useful advice to the member seeking assistance.

We send these "calls to action" directly to every location manager and pass the responses on to the relevant member.  We have also introduced an online forum for members - this is a great platform for discussion, debate, requests and suggestions. 

Our online unit base database is exclusively for members' use and is free to use, enabling you to find all available film unit parking facilities within a given radius of any London postcode.

This service is an invaluable tool for location managers.  At this moment the database contains hundreds of unit bases, with members adding new unit base details all the time.  As with all of our resources, the strength of the database is derived from the constantly expanding collective knowledge and experience of our location manager members.

A further membership benefit is our free CV listing service. For no fee you have the opportunity to send in your CV and whenever we have an enquiry for a location scout, location manager or unit manager, we inform all members at the same time by email.

We then pass on the CVs of all respondents directly to the hiring production. We ask for no commission for this service from either side.  In 2008 we circulated over 50 employment opportunities to our members on a no fee basis.

We've planned a busy social calendar for 2009, with various parties and social events in the pipeline, where members can mix with each other and with our friends and affiliates from the industry.  Details of the Collective Social Club forthcoming in the Members' Area of the website...

If you're a location manager and interested in finding out more about Collective membership, click here to get in touch or call Company Director Antony Iredale on 0207 284 8910.  Collective members don't pay library fees for hires from our location library and membership is free, as is access to all the benefits listed above!