The IQA, established for more than 75 years has the largest membership of any professional body involved with quality in Europe and represents the UK in the European Organisation for Quality. It produces the monthly magazine 'Quality World', a Technical Supplement and provides training courses, conferences and seminars. Study programmes through which academic qualifications are attainable are also organised. The IQA's National Quality Information Centre provides information, books, journals and a useful database to the business community, particularly smaller businesses and publishes a list of training aids available in the UK, such as films and video tapes. The BQF exists to enhance the performance and effectiveness of all types of enterprise and organisation within the UK through the promotion of total quality management practices.
Membership is open to all industrial, commercial and other corporate organisations.
Through seminars, conferences, publications and other services and activities, including the UK Quality Award, the BQF aims to promote the use and understanding of total quality as a basis for achieving improvements in performance relevant to the needs of all enterprises and organisations. The AQMC Ltd is a self-regulating body whose members by their training, qualifications and experience, meet requirements designed to establish that they are professionally competent to act as consultants to industry and commerce, on a whole range of quality management activities. The ABCB is the national organisation for independent nationally accredited certification bodies. Its membership, comprising the majority of Accredited Certification Bodies, undertake impartial certification of quality management systems, products, services and personnel. Members aim to promote consistent quality by adopting a uniformly high standard of independent certification.