chicken6 - thanks for the reply.
My intention was to keep the association for British FI`s only in order to keep it on a smallish scale. I think a world wide association would be advantageous to a certain degree but with tens of thousands of members may be difficult to organise from an administrative point of view. I`m not sure how many FI`s there are in the UK but I would estimate probably 2000 or so.
A worldwide association would really need to be managed by a person(s) on a full time basis.
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Kit