Membership Information

The Benefits of ACCU Membership

Be part of an inclusive, egalitarian group of programmers who care about their craft, sharing knowledge, continually learning, and generally seeking Professionalism in Programming.

• World Class Conference: The ACCU Spring Conference is well known and respected in the C++ world, with a wide ranging programme, and attracting prestigious speakers. Attendees can brush up on skills in the pre-conference tutorials, and immerse themselves in the informal and friendly atmosphere. Discounted rates for members.


• Printed Journals: ACCU produces two magazines, alternating monthly, with content written by our members. C Vu is the member’s magazine, and Overload is more technical with peer reviewed articles. Available as paper copy or via the website. Indexed archives are available on the website.


• Email Discussion Lists: Very high signal to noise email lists. Accu-general is the most popular and will usually generate a same day response to specific technical, or general, questions. Ask or discuss anything from the most basic to complex template meta-programming.


• Local Groups: Set up and run by ACCU members in their local area. Usually monthly, meetings include guest speakers and social events. Local Groups exist in Bristol & Bath, Cambridge, London, Oxford, York, and San Francisco.


• Book Reviews: Technical books reviewed by our members. Reviews are published in C Vu, and an archive is available on the website. We also have an essential books wiki.


• Social Media: Find us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Github, Flikr, and Youtube for session recordings from our conferences. We also provide a blog agregator for members.


• Personal Development: Any member can start a learning project. In the past we have had Study Groups and mentored development projects. Some members help at their local code clubs.

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Types and Cost of Membership

Current Membership Tiers

The ACCU offers 2 types of yearly membership: Individual and Corporate, with a concessionary rate for students, retirees or the unemployed.

• Regular Individual ACCU Memberships include subscription to the ACCU journals (C Vu and Overload) and full access to website facilities including the journal archives.

  • Full Individual Membership: £45.00/year.

  • Basic Individual Membership: £32.00/year. This is similar to Full Individual Membership except that the subscription to the ACCU journals does not include printed copies of Overload.

• Concessionary Student, Unemployed, and Retiree Individual ACCU Memberships are available to individuals providing proof of full-time education, unemployment, or retirement. Individuals requesting a concessionary membership are required to submit appropriate documentation to the Membership Secretary. Concessionary memberships include the same benefits as their regular membership counterparts.

  • Concessionary Full Individual Membership: £22.50/year.

  • Concessionary Basic Individual Membership: £16/year.

• Corporate ACCU membership is for any size of organisation with single or multiple sites and includes subscription for a minimum of 5 copies of the ACCU journals (C Vu and Overload), full access to the website facilities, and discounted rates for the conferences.

  • Single site Corporate Membership: £150.00/year.

  • Multi-site Corporate Membership: For a multi-site Corporate Membership rate please contact the Membership Secretary. The guidance rate for multi-site Corporate Membership is £150.00/year + £45.00 for each additional copy of the journals required.

Future Membership Tiers - Coming Soon

ACCU has not changed its membership tiers nor their costs in more than a decade. We now find it necessary to change our membership tiers and increase their costs, for several reasons:

• The fixed costs of operating ACCU have been relatively static for that period, but have recently started to increase, and have been rising more sharply in the last year or two.

• The cost of posting paper magazines has risen sharply, with posting overseas dominating our operating expenses.

• Membership fees do not cover our operating expenses; therefore ACCU is running at a loss. In the past, operating losses were made up by remittances from the conference, but since the Covid outbreak in 2020 our conferences have also run at a loss. We have reserves, but consider it irresponsible to burn through them without addressing the underlying problems.

• There are hardly any members on the concessionary rates; therefore these rates are going to be rolled into the individual, digital-only membership tier.

• Corporate rates have been very low considering the benefits of sending lots of staff to the conferences.

After the transition, ACCU will offer two types of membership - individual and corporate - with several tiers for each type based on magazine delivery method and destination. Overseas members will have to pay more for paper copies of our magazines since the postage costs are considerably higher than for destinations in the UK. All memberships, individual and corporate, will continue at their current tiers until the membership renews, at which point a new membership tier will need to be selected.

• Individual ACCU Memberships include a subscription to the ACCU journals (C Vu and Overload), full access to website facilities including the journal archives, and discounted rates to our conferences for the member.

  • Individual Membership - Digital Only: £35.00/year. This membership tier provides full access to our magazines in digital formats; no paper copies of magazines are included.

  • Individual Membership - Paper Copies, UK Address: £57.00/year. This membership tier is for those who want paper copies of the magazines, delivered within the UK. One paper copy of each magazine issue is provided.

  • Individual Membership - Paper Copies, Outside the UK: £85.00/year. This membership tier is for those who want paper copies of the magazines, delivered outside the UK. One paper copy of each magazine issue is provided.

• Corporate ACCU membership is for any size of organisation and includes subscriptions to the ACCU journals (C Vu and Overload), full access to the website facilities, and discounted rates to our conferences for unlimited attendees.

  • Corporate Membership - Digital Only: £175.00/year. This membership tier provides full access to our magazines in digital formats; no paper copies of magazines are included.

  • Corporate Membership - Paper Copies, UK Address: £200.00/year. This membership tier is for those corporations that want paper copies of the magazines for delivery within the UK. Five paper copies of each magazine issue, delivered to one location within the UK, are included with this membership tier.

  • Corporate Membership - Paper Copies, Outside the UK: £250.00/year. This membership tier is for those corporations that want paper copies of the magazines for delivery outside the UK. Five paper copies of each magazine issue, delivered to one location outside the UK, are included with this membership tier.

For more details on the membership types see the ACCU Constitution.

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