Membership

Whether you’re a business, a public sector organisation, a charity or a university/institution, membership with WIG brings your organisation and your people a number of important benefits.

Being an active member of WIG can help you and your organisation to:

Stay up to date

Keep on top of the latest policy trends and hot topics – by attending briefings from senior leaders across the public and private sectors.

Think smart

Make the right decisions in times of uncertainty – by sharing challenges and gaining critical intelligence from across key pillars of UK society and the economy.

Collaborate

Solve issues by working closely with members – who include every central government department, leading FTSE companies, Russell Group universities and national charities.

Connect

Work together across sectors at multiple levels of seniority, including the very highest – building the peer-to-peer networks your decision-makers need.

Develop

Drive change in your organisation, by making the most of opportunities to develop your leaders and share skills – complementing how you develop talent within your teams.

"WIG is a little like the UK's best concierge for live policy issues. The events are engaging and always useful. The topics and content help me keep up to date with policy and issues related to the UK and its engagement globally." - Bryan Taylor, University College London

Become a member

What's included in membership?

Gain access to a rich and varied diary of more than 120 events, both online and in-person, featuring high-profile speakers on the most relevant topics such as climate change, regional economies and cost of living.

Choose from briefings, webinars, workshops and roundtables targeted at specific roles. Events offer your people a safe space for frank discussion: most operate under the Chatham House rule.

WIG membership brings your people into contact with a diverse range of people and perspectives – helping them to develop at a personal level.

In addition, our sought-after leadership programmes provide cross-sector development opportunities at every career stage – while bespoke placements, non-executive/trustee appointments, and mentoring partnerships offer further ways to develop talent. Membership includes discounts on these programmes and services.

Thanks to our range of on-demand resources, your people can access further insights on the topics that count. Choose from themed reports and recordings of past events.

WIG membership grants you access to our online platform that utilises a matching algorithm to help you find a mentor, mentee or a reverse mentor. Find out more here.

Your relationship manager helps you make the most of your WIG membership, sharing opportunities and helping link your people to our networks. Your relationship manager will also seek feedback to help us develop offerings to meet your needs.

Discover the benefits for your organisation

For business

As challenges become more complex and societal pressure on industry grows, it’s helpful to look outside your organisation for fresh points of view. WIG gives you that perspective.

For the public sector

When you work in the public sector, it’s important to learn from and collaborate with other sectors for the benefit of wider society. WIG membership helps you do just that.

For higher education

As a higher education organisation, you thrive on collaboration not only within the academic community, but outside of it. Joining WIG gives you that chance to collaborate.

For Charities

As a charity, you play a vital role in tackling the issues we face as a society. Enable your organisation to learn, connect and collaborate across sectors by joining WIG.

To professionals sharing ideas at a WIG event

Support for your leaders

Discover how WIG enables effective leadership across all business functions, from HR and comms, to sustainability and corporate affairs.

Discover our members

Find out more about our 245 members, including the industries that are represented and the organisations, across the sectors, that are already benefiting from WIG membership.