Hello Mr Oduor, it’s time to renew your membership.

We were delighted to host a range of conferences again at No. 4 Hamilton Place, including the Future Combat Air and Space and Future of Flight Summits, both of which attracted some of our largest ever attendances.  We’ve welcomed over 5,000 people to our lectures, talks and conferences including 43 Named Lectures across our Branch Network, we’ve introduced Aerosociety Lates providing member social events in Hamilton Place, signed our Co-operation Agreement with the RAF Air Cadets in the UK solidifying our relationship and ways we work together, we’ve responded to a range of government, regulatory body and select committee consultations and appeared at Select Committees on defence procurement.

Our Specialist Groups have continued to deliver strong support for those consultations and to grow their learned output once again; as a result we have been able to publish reports on areas such as the non-CO2 climate effects of aviation which have been raised to government level and in meetings with ministers.  Learned Output continues to be a strong focus of the Groups, alongside our academic work through the Aeronautical Journal, continuing to grow its impact, and the Journal of Aeronautical History.

Our Society has returned after the pandemic, with our Branches and Divisions back to full operation, helping to build friendships, networks and provide inspiration across the globe.  In this new post-pandemic world we continue to work hard, supported by the membership, to define what the Society needs to be in the future to ensure we continue to remain relevant in the changing world around us and that we are ready to adapt to whatever the future needs us to be.  That work is leading towards significant technical investment to ensure we provide an improved service to our current members, but also allows to interact with our future ones in the most effective way.

As you’ll appreciate, the impact of the pandemic lingered longer than perhaps we would all have liked, however the Society has continued to invest in our largest asset, our headquarters at No. 4 Hamilton Place, and our people and systems to support our members, and also to rebuild our reserves so that we are sustainable for the future.

We have worked incredibly hard as a staff team to keep a tight control on costs this year, and to raise income from other streams - both of which have been successful and allowed us to do more as a Society. Membership, does however, still make up almost half of our income but the Trustees have sought to keep 2024 fees well below Consumer Price Inflation to recognise your support – I hope you will appreciate that the small increase is necessary to help us continue to deliver our growing impact to you and our wider stakeholders. We could not achieve this without you; thank you.

Thank you once again for your continued support of the Society and our work. I look forward to seeing you at one of our many events in 2024.