VAN DE WALT & CO
Administration in Randburg

By outsourcing to a professional association management organisation such as usted&Co, your association gets, at a stroke of the pen, an instant national or regional office, fully staffed and equipped with state of the art information technology systems and communication equipment. All associations do things like maintaining records of their membership, collecting membership fees, organising meetings and conferences, do their accounting and communicate with their members. There are broadly three approaches that an association can use to achieve this: a. Volunteers will eventually lose interest and move on and are seldom sustainable, especially if the organisation is growing. Member volunteers also bring conflicts of interest; often the cause of governance problems that are very difficult to deal with. They can appoint staff, open an office and pay for infrastructure, training and systems. This option can be very costly and energy draining in the long run as the board ends up with all the long term risks and liabilities associated with being an employer and a tenant. A fixed retainer fee covering all the operating costs of your secretariat will make it easy to plan the income and expenditure of your association. A pure retainer fee basis incentivises the outsourced secretariat to manage the budgets of the association in a responsible and sustainable way. An association management company always provides services to multiple associations, which means that they can afford to invest in better offices, systems and specialised staff than what standalone associations would typically do.