Achievements

With new General Manager Joanna Cox at the helm, the Board took the time to review aimm's current direction and focus and have decided that in order to ensure that members feel the full value of membership our strategy needed to be reviewed. The aim is to put all our members back into the heart of aimm, to help create an environment that will see our members businesses thrive. The Board and the Executive Team are currently consulting with members to facilitate our strategy and are providing progress updates to members via the GM.

aimm worked with members for input into the proposed review of PSA's review of its regulation of phone-paid services offered on a subscription basis, and submitted a consultation to PSA based on members feedback on this. Response to this consultation will be given later in the year.

aimm wrote to PSA on the behalf of our members to object to the proposed changes on product registration on the simple basis that there was no obvious or stated consumer or regulatory benefit from the proposals, to counteract the administrative burden imposed and potential regulatory risk increases.

aimm has worked with the Consumer Dispute Resolution Services Ltd to provide their service to aimm members. Membership is free and each case handled is economical. Full details of the scheme provided to members at GM, and detailed in Members Benefits leaflet for further info

The April draft aimm response to PSA’s Consultation on Special Conditions for Society Lotteries is available on our website for member review but is also subject to final review and approval by aimm’s Board.

aimm is working with members and others across the industry to look at this. aimm has consolidated input and discussed a review of the AIT procedure and a review of SIA. These discussions are currently ongoing with relevant parties.

In May aimm run another successful Power50 conference in London. Focusing on future led topics we had speakers from: Deloitte and Bango speaking on Consumers and Trends; Insureblocks, Fladgate and Reality Clash discussing Blockchain and Smart Contracts Onedox, IMImobile and Open Identity Exchange looking at new technologies and opportunities MobileSquared, OpenMarket and ITV joined us for the afternoon to discuss the interesting topic of  opportunities with RCS  

This has enabled charities to maximise money pledged from their audiences worth £50 million per annum

October 2017 aimm have been working for a number of years with MNO’s and intermediaries to establish a new range of short codes for exclusive use by society lotteries (a 5 digit short code range starting with 72).  These numbers are VAT exempt and offer a fantastic new call to action option for society lotteries.  The market is huge (estimated value to our industry of £53m pa). aimm launched to the UK market with a conference in October 2017.