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Six
Reasons to Join BCLNA
1. Advance
your professional profile
Consumers
and industry peers recognize the BC Landscape & Nursery
Association (BCLNA) as a successful, trusted and progressive
organization. Joining the BCLNA distinguishes you as a professional.
With over 800 members,
BCLNA serves nursery growers, landscape trades, retail nurseries,
garden and landscape centres, educators, municipal parks,
horticulture suppliers, students and affiliated
organizations.
Membership brings pride
and puts you in touch with peers who are motivated to share
their knowledge and improve the industry. Many members indicate
that networking is the most valuable part of joining.
Three
regional chapters enhance the association’s
effectiveness in providing local opportunities for members to get
together:
- Lower Mainland
- Vancouver
Island
- Interior
Commodity
groups provide a focus on specific interests:
- Garden Centres & Retail
Nurseries
- Growers
- Landscapers
Industry developed
certification programs provide members with a stronger level
of confidence and accountability. They also help customers
identify companies using best management practices:
Other certifications
are available through affiliate organizations.
2.
Enhance your buying power
Active
and associate members enjoy savings on a wide range
of products and services.
Many
endorsed supplier programs are administered through
the Canadian Nursery Landscape
Association (CNLA).
BCLNA’s
membership in CNLA links our members and industry across
Canada, making programs more affordable for everyone.
You will receive a benefits package of endorsed supplier
programs when you join. Check
out the savings here...
3. Advance
your knowledge
BCLNA provides information relevant
to your business. We are committed to communication, professional
development and resource sharing, including the following
items and programs:
4.
Promote your business
Your
BCLNA membership provides exclusive opportunities to promote your
business. Affiliating yourself with BCLNA’s
valued reputation also enhances your profile.
- Public Shows:
BCLNA participates in a number of public shows, providing
local landscape and retail members the opportunity to promote
their business and industry. Some members book as much as
65% of their annual business at these shows!
- Grower Shows:
BCLNA growers have a presence at horticulture shows across
Canada through distribution of the BCLNA Buyers Guide at
CNLA booths. We attend Oregon’s FarWest show in August,
highlighting growers and plants.
- Promotional Ads:
BCLNA advertises BC grown plants through US and Canadian
trade magazines, directing them to wholesale nurseries in
Buyers Guide and on the website.
- Websites: All members
receive a free listing on bclna.com, our industry website.
Landscape and retail members receive a free listing on the
public site gardenwiseonline.com, a partnership between GardenWise
magazine and BCLNA.
- Landscape Awards
of Excellence: Landscape companies can enter this prestigious
competition, with winners using their award as an invaluable
marketing tool.
- Sponsorship: Many
product and service supplier members effectively promote
their own business by sponsoring the seminars, events and
programs that attract their target clients.
5. Manage challenging
issues
BCLNA effectively manages important issues that
affect the industry and are too complex for individual companies
to handle on their own. Issues include pests, municipal,
provincial and federal regulations, and a wide range of urban
and rural environmental factors. BCLNA partners with CNLA
on national issues.
6. Enjoy events
for pleasure and profit
Joining BCLNA is your invitation
to great events that bring personal satisfaction and business
benefits.
- Chapter and commodity
meetings: Members come together regularly across the province
to share knowledge, resources and fellowship.
- Golf tournament:
This annual late June tourney is held in the Lower Mainland,
providing well-earned relaxation and camaraderie at the end
of spring.
- Auction: This February
fundraiser supports horticulture scholarships and industry
marketing programs. Auction items are generously donated
and bid on by members.
- Annual General Meeting:
Join colleagues for an event that is stimulating and fun,
while dealing with key industry issues. Industry champions
are also recognized and rewarded.
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Membership
Categories & Dues
Membership dues are renewed on a
yearly basis on July 1st. Payment of a full year is due at application.
(First year renewal invoice will be pro-rated as appropriate).
Active: Individuals, partnerships or corporations
actively engaged in horticultural business in BC for at least 2
years, with a reputation for trustworthy dealings. Includes Nursery
Growers, Garden Centres, Landscape Professionals, Sod Growers and
Arborists.
Active membership
dues are based on last year's gross sales:
$ Less than $100,000........................................................
$ 390.00
$ 100,000 - $300,000........................................................
$ 560.00
$ 300,000 - $600,000........................................................
$ 875.00
$ 600,000 - $1 million........................................................ $
1030.00
$ 1 million - $3 million........................................................ $
1250.00
$ 3 million and up................................................................ $
1500.00
Satellite
Operations: Any active member with full membership can
also obtain membership for their other locations.
Satellite Dues.....................................................
$ 285.00/ location
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Associate:
Individuals, partnerships or corporations which are actively engaged
in work allied to horticulture, but not engaged in an “active”
landscape nursery business.
Associate
membership dues are based on last year's gross sales targeting
or specific to the landscape nursery industry:
$ Less than $100,000........................................................
$ 390.00
$ 100,000 - $300,000........................................................
$ 560.00
$ 300,000 - $600,000........................................................
$ 875.00
$ 600,000 - $1 million........................................................
$ 1030.00
$ 1 million - $3 million........................................................
$ 1250.00
$ 3 million and up................................................................
$ 1500.00
Interim:
Individuals, partnerships or corporations that have been in business
in BC for less than 2 years.
Interim Dues......................................................................
$ 390.00
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Horticulturist:
Employees or ex-employees of a consenting Active Member. Or,
an employee or ex-employee of a government agency or educational
institution allied to the nursery and/or landscape business.
Or, an employee or director of a botaincal garden, municipal
parks department, golf course, or horticulture related not-for-profit
organization.
Individual
Dues..................................................................
$ 285.00
Out
of Province: Individuals, partnerships or corporations
as that have been a member in good standing of a nursery association
or similar entity, in their area.
Out of Province
Dues........................................................
$ 285.00
Student:
Any person attending full-time high school, vocational school, college
or university, or indentured in the Provincial Horticultural Apprenticeship
Program. Limited membership benefits.
Student Dues.......................................................................
$ 37.00
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Membership Approval Process
Send
your completed application form to the BCLNA office. Your
sponsors will be contacted (call the BCLNA if you don’t
know two members.)
Your application
will be submitted to the Board of Directors for tentative approval
(meetings are the 3rd Monday of most months). If pre-approved it
will be listed
in the monthly HortWest magazine.
Final approval
will be given at the following month’s Board meeting, provided
there is no substantial reason for why you should not become a member.
The BCLNA
office will notify you when final approval is granted. You will
receive your membership package with information and benefits applications
shortly thereafter.
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BCLNA
Logo Use Policy
From
an association's point of view, there is great value in encouraging
members to use its logo appropriately and often. In turn, members
should acknowledge that the logo has considerable goodwill and is
valuable to the BCLNA. The result of frequent and appropriate use
of the logo will generate greater awareness of the BCLNA, which in
turn increases the value of being recognized as a member.
The purpose
of this policy is to ensure appropriate and professional use
of the BCLNA logo. It applies to all applications of the logo,
whether it be print media, online, digital, video or other
uses.
Download
the logo use policy ...
Contact Karen DeJong
to request logos or permission for use.
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