Joining the online based DJ Association - Member Benefits

Full Association membership benefits include:

-Plastic Membership Card - includes FULL DJ Public Liability Insurance Details

-£10 million pounds Public Liability Insurance cover (note:the territorial cover is worldwide)

-Online Public Liability Validation with Validator+

-£250,000 legal defense costs cover*

Membership card

The card includes:

-Member Name

-Membership Number

-PLI Policy Details and period of cover

Full DJ Public Liability Insurance details (including insurer, policy number and level of liability cover) are included on the members card. 

Membership Card Example

"When Clients need assurance

You have the insurance...Validator+"

Validator+

Online Validation - Validator+

With 'Validator+', clients can not only verify your membership status.  Your DJ Public Liability Insurance Cover is independently verified by the association.

Written evidence is increasingly required by venues that the mobile DJ and entertainer is covered with PLI and PAT before they can perform.

With this in mind, the associations online validation 'Validator+' can help your potential clients confirm your level of indemnity cover.

For authorised checks of PLI cover and membership, registered full members can benefit from Validator+ by simply adding HTML code to their business web site.

See working example below

Venues and potential clients visiting the registered members website can verify level of indemnity in a mouse click.

NOTE: Validator+ does not link to third party services or DJ competitors.

 Validator+ has been enhanced to display the registered member (digital photo) on a virtual id card .

Further details include membership number, registrations, licences held, etc.

Validator+ and membership card promotes confidence for the client or venue booking a registered DJ service:

• professional membership card with FULL DJ Public Liability Insurance Details can be accessed

• independent validation of membership

• independent validation of DJ Public Liability Insurance cover

Please click on the image below to see an example of Validator+ in action.

Website Resources

The DJ@ website is the information tool and resource for the DJ association featuring, but not limited to:

-free health & safety guides

-free DJ advice guides

-free TAX advice

-free contract advice

-free BPM listings

plus news, features and client advice guides

Members can also access the monthly updated E-Zine which includes music release news, marketing articles and more!

Public Liability Insurance Cover

The DJ Public Liability Insurance cover DJ@ includes with membership is £10 million per member.  No separate registration is required.

Note: Public liability is not a legal requirement - but it makes sense to have the cover in the event of a claim!

The policy provides an indemnity in respect of the member’s legal liability in respect of bodily injury third parties and damage to third party property, arising from the Insured’s business as ‘Disc Jockey including the dry hire of Audio & Visual DJ Equipment’, subject always to the terms, conditions and exclusions of the policy.

NOTE: £250,000 legal defence costs are included with the policy.

Period of Insurance

The period of the insurance policy runs for 12 months.

P.A.T.

PAT (portable appliance test) is an advisory and not a requirement of DJ Association membership.  Possession of a valid PAT would satisfy the insurance company in the event of a claim but lack of in itself would not automatically invalidate cover.  Also, there is no restrictions under the policy to the type of equipment used (other than use of fire or pyrotechnics).

Insurers

DJ Associates is pleased to announce that Hencilla Canworth Ltd. is the preferred supplier of Insurance and Financial Services.

You'll be pleased to know that in addition to the benefits of discounted equipment insurance, Hencilla Canworth also provide a comprehensive range of insurance and financial services to the needs of DJ@ registered members including:

-entertainers motor insurance

-home insurance (buildings / contents / personal possessions)

-travel insurance

-mortgage advice

-mortgage protection cover

-life cover

-income protection

-pension advice

-investment advice

-private medical

The Subscription fee

The current subscription term commenced 1st September 2009 and will end 31st August 2010.

Full Membership from 1st September is from £75.00. 

Membership subscription (applications during the subscription term) is proportionally calculated for the remainder of the subscription term.

Successful applicants will be contacted by DJ Associates with online payment request details via NOCHEX - the association's preferred secure online transaction service.  There is a small NOCHEX transaction surcharge for online payments. 

The following cards are accepted for online payment. 

Of course, further additional benefits will be sought as the membership expands but yes, the full member subscription fee includes an excellent DJ public liability insurance benefit which is up to £10 million pounds cover!  Included with this is a plastic membership card -  full PLI details are included on the card.

Also included is £10million pounds dry hire cover and legal defence costs up to £250,000 AND the online Validator+ independently verifies membership and public liability cover.

Criteria of Membership

Once the online application form is submitted, applicants are required to submit a recent passport style digital photo to the Association.

Ideally, the digital photo resolution should be of the highest quality.  Applicants will of course be contacted if the digital photo is unsuitable / poor quality / low resolution / too small, etc.

Once the application form and digital photo has been received, the application will be processed.

Successful applicants are notified via email.  Please ensure you indicate on the application form which type of membership you require (in the required field at the end of the form).

Please note:

Full Members of the Association are expected to have a duty of care, to take all reasonable precautions to prevent damage or injury to third parties and/or property.

Members are expected to comply with health and safety / statutory  requirements and legislation.

FURTHER DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE!

Discounted Equipment Insurance from Hencilla Canworth

DJ Associates is pleased to announce that members of DJ Associates can obtain discounted entertainer's equipment insurance from our preferred insurer - Hencilla Canworth:

Discounted Entertainers Equipment Insurance* (sum insured £8,000) :

All premiums quoted above are inclusive of Insurance Premium Tax of 5% and a £10.00 administration fee. These premiums are an indication only and can be effected by adverse underwriting features, such as previous claims etc.

They are based on cover including Theft from Unattended Vehicles, but please note this would be subject to the vehicle being alarmed &/or immobilised, and the equipment being kept out of sight.

Key points:

As you will see, the premiums quoted are competitive to the ones being offered by DJ Guard, although no Personal Accident or Public Liability cover is included.

DJ@ members obviously already have DJ Public Liability with their association membership and therefore this should not be an issue, whilst the Personal Accident cover from DJ Guard is a Death or Permanent Disablement cover only.

To benefit from this discounted entertainers equipment insurance, DJ Association members should quote their membership number in all correspondence enquiries to Mark Hopkinson

Tel: 020 8686 5050

Student Membership Concession: from £39.00 (excluding online transaction surcharge)
From September, if you are a student in *full-time education, you'll benefit from a concessionary discount off the standard DJ@ full membership fee.

*Our definition of full-time education is more than 12 hours a week of study / on a course.

Proof of status required for students - please ask your school, college or university to provide proof of full-time education / student status.  Please forward this along with your digital photo after submitting your application form.
 

Under 21s:

From September, applicants under21 can benefit from a concessionary discount off the standard DJ@ full membership fee.

For further concessionary information, contact DJ Associates 08451 086 513

Lifetime discount from Mixmash

Association Members are entitled to discount from our friends at Mixmash! 

-save £££'s on Mixmash item purchases and bundle offers

-exclusive promotions for DJ@ members!

Software discount with PCDJ

PCDJ (UK) now offer association members 10% discount on software purchases.
 

Still in doubt?

If you are a DJ or Karaoke hire service, ask your self, can you afford not to have liability cover? 

Public Liability Insurance is not a legal requirement - but it makes good sense to be covered in the event of a claim!

In fact, one of our new members said that to have it - "it's a no-brainer!"

Whichever organisation you choose to join, holding a valid and current Public Liability Insurance policy is good practice and remember that venues set the level of Public Liability Insurance for a reason.  They can make a claim against you!

The story so far...

Although established in 2005, DJ Associates is now in its second year as a subscription based DJ Association.

The DJ Association is online based. Great benefits included with full membership like DJ Public Liability Insurance are passed on at-cost.

Since becoming a subscription based DJ Association, 'DJ@' has introduced:

• Public Liability Policy Documents via email

• Plastic Photo ID cards with full Public Liability Insurance Policy details

• Website / Membership Status Validation with 'Validator+'

• Concessionary discounts for u21 / Students

• Affiliate membership

• Member briefing emails

• Free downloadable advice guides for members and visitors to the  website

• Free Health and Safety Advice

• Diary's & Pens!

The DJ Association has secured discounts from third party suppliers including discounted equipment insurance, offered great competition prizes and exclusively provided DVD media from Mixmash (at the time worth £40.00!)

Whether offering contract advice or providing TAX guides, or articles on how to simply become a DJ, 'DJ@' encourages good business practice, continues to remain member focused and will seek further great benefits as the DJ Association expands. 

In early 2009, the DJ Association commissioned a company to design and manufacture a free-standing DJ Booth for under £300.00.

Produced by Savill Cases, the DJ Booth offers a clean professional presentation for the disco set-up.

The hard panels are lightweight and strong, trimmed in aluminium and available in other colours.  The DJ Booth assembles in under two minutes!

In 2009, DJ Associates contributed to the Great Ormand Street Hospital charity and currently sponsors the DJsUnited online community forum and several non-profit sites.

Protecting and Promoting the Art of DJ'ing

Lobbying

DJs who have assisted their fellow operators through the provision of relevant advice and guidance on community DJ forums may believe they are safeguarding the future development of the sector, but DJ forums do not collectively lobby and campaign.

Established DJ Associations have for years had the opportunity to lobby and influence decision makers within government, the arts, and other relevant areas but have they actually achieved anything to benefit the DJ sector as a whole in the last 30 years?

A DJ Association can only  take a constructive lead on issues that matter via member input, so if you truly wish to ensure that YOUR concerns are heard by those who matter, join a DJ Association which is 100% member focused and have your say, because a DJ Association has to be driven by the needs of its membership: the individual practitioners and services, semi-professional and professional alike.

Everyone can do more to help safeguard the future development of the DJ profession if they truly want to.  For starters, the profile of the profession can be raised with simple awareness of good business practice, but DJ@ strongly believes that only by speaking with one united voice can the DJ profession truly be heard, and respected. 

The established sectors such as the acting profession and the music profession have single representation and legal representatives, however, the 'mobile DJ' profession which is very diverse, has no recognised representative voice on issues which have, or will have an impact.

Vision

DJ Associates recognises that the mobile DJ sector must speak to organisations and government with one clear voice and in a language it understands.  The value of the mobile DJ profession should be understood and recognised across all areas, including the arts.

DJ Associates aims to serve its members by providing them with the opportunity to unite and speak up for their profession with one powerful voice. 

Ultimately, DJ Associates aims to provide a united voice for its members in the mobile dj sector, standing as an independent organisation, representing members of all diversity across the UK.

Helping others - making a difference

Member subscriptions have not only helped the Association be an effective member focused organisation, but has allowed DJ Associates to collectively make a small but positive contribution to organisations such as Great Ormand Street Hospital.

Isn't that wonderful?

Conclusion

By becoming a full member of the DJ Association, you would not only be receiving £10m DJ Public Liability Insurance and other great benefits, but you're actually helping others gain too.

DJ@ understands that fellow service providers have been trying to secure as many benefits for the 'DJ operator service' for years and years.  We're just simply trying to do the same, small steps at a time.