NaCSBA Membership | NaCSBA - National Custom & Self Build Association

Help boost the Custom and Self-build sector by becoming a member of NaCSBA.

NaCSBA works to grow the self and custom build market, raising its profile and boosting opportunities for your business. It relies on membership subscriptions from companies and organisations to help fund this core work. Our financial independence means that we have an objective voice when lobbying, that Government respects. Members can be found on our Membership Directory, which lives on our consumer facing Self Build Portal. This site advises consumers how to self build, and allows them find their local self build registers.

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Why become a NaCSBA member?

As a company, you understand the bigger picture – you want to make building a home easier in the UK. You want others to appreciate that self or custom built homes offer the most beneficial and effective way to get the best quality or most cost effective homes, while securing more opportunities for your business though NaCSBA’s work. Check out the range of NaCSBA’s work

Member benefits

Add NaCSB’s logo to your website and marketing material to demonstrate to customers you are a trusted company, that follows a Code of Practice.
Profile your company in our membership directory, on our consumer website the Self Build Portal
Be part of a trusted voice in the industry
Get access to industry statistics and research
Contribute to our consultation responses and lobbying and position papers
Join monthly online updates on activity
Get monthly NaCSBA Newsletters
Feed into NaCSBA’s growing body of best practice
Share your news and case studies with consumers via the Self Build Portal.

For more, contact our Membership Secretary Richard Pearce on 01249 890731 or membership@nacsba.org.uk. Membership is for 12 months.

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Membership options

We have three levels of membership – Gold Corporate Member, Standard Member and Not-for-profit. Standard Membership has a range of membership options to reflect different organisations.

On joining, Standard and Gold members commit to the terms of NaCSBA’s Code of Practice. This works both ways, demonstrating to your customers that you are a trusted operator, and offering consumers peace of mind when sourcing businesses to work on their project.

NaCSBA’s Code of Practice

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Local Authorities
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Become a Gold Member and show us your full support

Corporate Gold membership demonstrates that you’re a heavy-weight in the Custom and Self-build sector, and are truly committed to changing the way we do housing in the UK. Your backing is crucial to supporting our lobbying of central and local Government, and contributing to the growth and expansion of the self build industry.

By partnering with NaCSBA as a Gold Member, you also help us provide better information to would-be Custom/Self-builders – your future customers – and build up our ‘best practice’ information. This enables us to guide future generations of Custom/Self-builders about the most efficient way to build their homes.

The Benefits

In return NaCSBA has developed a number of very tangible benefits that will help our Gold Members grow their businesses.

The opportunity to send four marketing communications a year to all members of the Self Build Portal* who have agreed to contact from Third Parties. These campaigns are put together by NaCSBA on your behalf in MailChimp, based on your copy and images, with a sign off by you as a Gold Member. (We regret that under GDPR we can no longer share this information with you as data.)
Your company will be listed on The Self Build Portal’s Partners page.

Plus the Standard Member benefits outlined below.

Special three-year Corporate Gold Membership

We have a special three-year subscription that offers a significant saving in comparison to annual Gold Membership – saving your company 15% over the cost of three individual years! This saves the hassle of signing up annually and ensures that your company is always recognised as a key player in the Custom and Self Build sector.

*Most registered users of the Self Build Portal are would-be Custom/Self-builders looking to buy products or services for their future project. Data suggests that those who have registered are: in the detailed preparation stages of getting their projects under way; typically holding budgets of £1-200k each, though many have budgets of over £500k; want to get their project underway in the next two years; looking for land mainly in the south east/west of the UK.

Corporate ‘Gold’ Partnership £2,770 annually or £6,500 for three years*

Notice that VAT will be added to the prices displayed above.

Standard Memberships

NaCSBA understand that there are a range of organisations that would benefit from having membership or would like to show their support, but their circumstances vary. Consequently we’ve developed a range of charges for our Standard Membership in an attempt to reflect these differences. Any of these memberships can be classified as Not-for-profit where relevant, meaning the organisation is not signed up to the Code of Practice.

Check out the benefits of being a NaCSBA Member, below.

Standard Membership Levels

There are essentially four levels of standard memberships, with special fees for Custom Builders and Local Authorities.

	Sole Trader (1 employee) £155 annually
	Small Company (2-9 employees) £280 annually
	Medium Company (10-49 employees) £695 annually
	Large Company (50+ employees) £1,195 annually

Notice that VAT will be added to the prices displayed above.

Standard Member: Custom Builders

Joining as a Custom Build member connects you with other innovators transforming the self build arena.

Benefits include:
• The ability to network with fellow custom build developers and feed back issues and problems to senior policy makers at MHCLG, and HCA funders
• Access to sites that NaCSBA is introduced to that may be of interest
• The opportunity to shape policy affecting Custom Build
• The ability to use the extra membership cost towards tools of shared benefit to custom build developers (e.g. a guide to VAT/SDLT)
• Access to experts and technical guidance – including help on VAT, SDLT, CIL, planning
• Plus, all the standard benefits

The rates for Custom Build companies wishing to join as Standard Members are:

	Small Company (2-9 employees) £630 annually
	Medium Company (10-49 employees) £1,045 annually
	Large Company (50+ employees) £1,890 annually

Notice that VAT will be added to the prices displayed above.

Standard Member: Local Authorities

Local Authorities have a special membership rate – £280 annually (plus VAT).
Local Authorities, and other not for profit groups, are not bound by the Code of Practice, as other members are.

Did you know that if you take out a contract to work with the Right to Build Task Force you can new get a free one-year membership of NaCSBA as part of the deal! Find out more about how the Task Force can support you at www.righttobuildtoolkit.org.uk

Consumer

Consumers can show their support for NaCSBA and help us create more opportunities for the Custom and Self-build by sector by registering as a user on the Self Build Portal. This is not the same as being a paying NaCSBA member, but helps us track appetite for owner-commissioned homes.

As a thank you, Consumer Supporters can benefit from competitive magazine subscription rates for SelfBuild & Design, Grand Designs and Build It.

Special magazine subscriptions for supporters and members

One of the benefits of being an individual NaCSBA Supporter is the chance to save on the essential magazines to help you get your project off the ground with expert advice delivered to your door.