Affiliation & dues
Affiliates request to join; you approve. Dues are charged per member, flat or by share capital, and settled between books.
For district unions, apexes and leagues
See the movement as it really is.
Your affiliates register and set themselves up, link to you with one approval, and from then on dues, placements, refinance and returns flow through one platform, with consolidated figures that don't count money twice.
Sound familiar?
Affiliates send their returns late, and each in a different format.
Our group balance sheet counts the same money twice.
New societies need months of hand-holding before they can stand alone.
How Bridge helps
Built for networks, not bolted on.
Placements & refinance
Accept surplus liquidity from affiliates and refinance their lending, with utilisation reported back.
Consolidation & returns
Consolidated reports eliminate intra-group balances; affiliate returns roll up for review.
Chartering & supervision
Charter new societies, supervise them under a disclosed mandate that expires, and graduate them.
A day in the life
Quarter-end at a district union.
Example: illustrative figures
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Affiliate returns arrive.
Twelve of fourteen affiliates have attested their monthly return; two are flagged as overdue.
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Dues run.
The treasurer runs quarterly dues; obligations appear in each affiliate's books automatically.
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Board pack.
The consolidated balance sheet shows placements and refinance eliminated, ready for the board.
Every level is a full union.
A district union has its own members (societies), board, committees and books, and runs elections and suspensions the same way a primary does. What differs is who its members are.
Show as list
- Apex · National league: affiliation dues from district unions; refinance and portfolio guarantees to them
- District union · West: dues and placements from primaries; refinance to them
- Lakeside Teachers (with two branches)
- Balogun Traders
- Unity Farmers
- District union · Coast: dues and placements from primaries; refinance to them
- St Mary's Parish (with one branch)
- Coast Nurses
- District union · West: dues and placements from primaries; refinance to them
Questions officers ask
Do our affiliates have to use Bridge?
To exchange dues, placements and returns automatically, yes. Affiliates not on Bridge can still be recorded as members of your union.
Can we see our affiliates' members?
Only with a supervisory relationship or mandate, and every look is logged.
How do we bring an existing society onto Bridge?
Invite it by email; it registers and sets itself up, then requests affiliation for you to approve.
How is a federation priced?
Set up your federation on Bridge.
Register free, practise on sample data, and go live when you're ready. No sales call needed.
Free to set up and practise. You pay only once you're live.