FAQs

There are 16 regional BII councils across the UK who are always keen to attract new council members, and for members to become more actively involved.

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  To find the regional chairman of your area, click here to select which area you are interested in.  
• Or, look in the regional pages of the latest issue of BIIBUSINESS where the details of your regional chairmen can be found.

You can renew your membership in a number of ways.

• By far the most cost effective is via Direct Debit, which can be as much as £10 cheaper each year.  If  you wish to renew by Direct Debit please call Membership Services on 01276 684449, and they will  send a Direct Debit mandate to you, or click here to print out a Direct Debit mandate. 
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  You can renew by credit card over the phone by calling membership services on 0800 783 9794/5
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  Or you can pay by sending a cheque (payable to BII) or postal order to:

Membership Services, BII,  Wessex House, 80 Park Street, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 3PT

Please click here to contact us with your query and someone will be in touch.

There are a variety of ways to go about this depending on what sort of premises you are looking for and what role you will have.

There is a useful website, full of information, www.mypublife.com which is a good place to start and will have answers to many of your questions.

If you intend to manage an outlet, or wish to become a tenant/lessee yourself, many pub companies and breweries provide training courses for potential licensees and it’s worth visiting their individual websites for further information. Some of these companies are BII corporate members, so click here to see a list of BII Corporate Members.

If you have recently come into the trade, you should seriously consider joining BII, which means you would gain access to a wide range of benefits which will help you.  These range from buying discounts, employment contracts to excellent banking rates and discounted credit card rates, FREE helplines to great business and personal savings. 

BII isn’t a trade body or union, but we do have a number of benefits aimed at helping our members. Some of these are listed below, but we do have a huge range of business support benefits in our members section of the website, ranging from downloadable business calculators to different helplines, so it is worth taking a look at the full range by clicking here

• Legal helpline
• Financial helpline
• Legal expenses insurance
• BII Licensing Support Helpline also offers advice on individual issues.

In order to obtain your Personal Licence you must contact your local licensing authority where you live to obtain an application form. 

In order to obtain your SIA licence you will need to contact the Security Industry Authority (SIA) directly on 08702 430 100 or by visiting their website www.the-sia.org.uk

Details of the BII Benchmarking and Accreditation Services Ltd (BIIBAS) can be found by visiting www.biibas.com. Here you will find all the information about the accreditation of company Codes of Practice.

The main benefits section of the BII website is restricted to BII members only. 

If you are a BII member, and you do not currently have an email address registered with us, you will not be able to access the members-only area of our website.  Please call the Membership Services Department on 01276 684449 during office hours to let us know your new email address, or email membermail@bii.org

If this is your first visit to the new BII website, you will need to click on the 'set up log in' link and you will then be sent an email to create a new password.

If you and have already previously registered on this new website, then you will need to click on the 'forgotten password' link and your password will be sent to you.