Welcome to the IOP Society Affiliation process. Please only complete this form if you are a new society joining the scheme. Returning societies should complete signup here.
There are a lot of benefits of affiliating your society with the IOP:
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- Affiliation Grant: The IOP will provide a £150 grant to contribute to your society’s activities.
- Additional Funding: For events that promote the wonder of physics and enable participants to gain experience and knowledge related to their studies and career aspirations, you can bid for an additional funding grant of up to £1000 ((Bronze = £0, Silver = up to £500, Gold = up to £1000).
- Support: Advice, signposting and an IOP presence at your events.
- Network: Join a growing community of university physics societies and network with them at events like our Student Community Training Day and FUSE, our annual societies get together!
- Digital resources: Including The Physics society guide, written by members of our community, and a Tiered affiliation framework, which you can read here.
- Local community: Involve your society in a broad range of outreach and engagement opportunities through the IOPs student engagement work and the local branch network.
Please complete the form below to affiliate with the Institute of Physics for the academic year 2025-6. We will support your extra-curricular activities and you will join a network of over 60 physics and related committees around the UK & Ireland in our Affiliated society network.
We hope you can use our materials, funding and support to diversify your activities, widen engagement and increase the impact your society makes in the community this year.
Once we have received your application and this has been reviewed, we will be in touch with you to confirm your bank details for your affiliation grant and also to provide any further information, including resources and the IOP logo for you to use on your society webpage / where appropriate.
This form should take less than 5 minutes to complete.
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