IFRA Membership provides you with all these benefits:

Support and Experience
In today's economic climate, it is increasingly tough being a retailer. It is even tougher being an independent retailer. IFRA provides you with the support - and experience - of its nationwide membership.

Contacts
Members meet regularly both nationally and locally, to find the best solutions to problems and to exchange ideas of mutual benefit. Meeting on a regional basis, we organise visits to fellow members' shops - a valuable source of ideas and information. Study Tours - sometimes abroad - and Seminars help to ensure that independent retailers have the most up-to-date information on fashion trends, footwear ranges and retailing methods.

Promoting to the Public
Using media and public relations we put the case for the independent retailer before the public.

Representing the Independent
The Secretariat, on members' behalf, either monitors or is in regular touch with Parliament, Government Departments, British Retail Consortium, British Chambers of Commence. the Office of Fair Trading, and many consumer organisations. SATRA Members are able to access the testing facilities of the laboratories of SATRA in Kettering, Northants. The facilities of this internationally recognised laboratory are only available to independent retailers through IFRA.

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Application Form 

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Retailer Membership

Supplier Membership

Annual Conference

The IFRA Annual Conference provides a special opportunity to learn about the latest trends in footwear retailing and to hear about and discuss the factors most relevant to up-grading quality trading and service. Conference speakers are experts in their field and are able to offer authoritative views and advice on a variety of subjects.

Keeping in Touch

Members receive our monthly newsletter and are always kept informed of IFRA regional and national events.  Our monthly business newsletter contains sales comparison figures which help members to monitor their own performance.