31 December 2016 may seem like a long way off but as you know it’s the deadline for payment of your ARB annual retention fee. The 2017 retention fee has been held at £107 and you will shortly be receiving your fee payment information. We’ll be sending out reminders again this year, so here are a few pointers on how to make sure you receive them and how to avoid problems, for you and colleagues, nearer the deadline:

• Make sure we have an up to date address and email address, to provide us with this please log in via online services.
• We send out text reminders near the deadline, so make sure we have your up to date mobile number
• If you pay by direct debit, make sure your direct debit is still active
• To avoid problems with your spam filter, add info@arbmail.org.uk to your email safe sender list
• Follow us on social media. We are active on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook and will be providing reminders from time to time
• Add a reminder to your calendar iCalendar  •  Google Calendar  •  Outlook  •  Outlook Online  •  Yahoo! Calendar (compatible with most electronic calendars)
• If you think your practice pays, double-check that they will
• If you have a colleague who is out of the office long term on maternity or sick leave and might not receive their invoice or any reminders, please remind them.

Finally, some of you might not want to retain your registration in 2017. If this is the case, resign rather than wait to be removed from the Register for non-payment. This way you won’t have to pay a prescribed fee if you want to re-register at a later date. You can resign at any time of the year, at registrants.arb.org.uk