Membership
Why Join the Chamber?
- Access to exclusive networking events and B2B matchmaking
- Trade missions and investment forums
- Up-to-date economic and regulatory insights
- Advocacy on behalf of members
- Visibility through our member directory and promotional platforms
Strategic Engagement
- Promotes the products and services of Romanian companies aiming to expand into the United Kingdom.
Representation and Public Relations
- Facilitates the participation of Romanian companies in events organised by the Chamber (sometimes in partnership with other organisations or institutions) and in events or activities to which the Chamber is invited, in Romania or the United Kingdom, in order to develop commercial relations and promote their interests.
- Supports Romanian companies in attending trade fairs, exhibitions, and other business events held in Romania or the United Kingdom.
Support for Business Development and Expansion
- Identifies potential business partners and carries out credit checks, which may cover the legal and financial status of potential British partners.
- Presents Romanian members with business projects or opportunities shared with the Chamber by our British members or partners.
- Introduces Romanian companies’ projects, products, and services to our British members or partners.
- Organises B2B meetings between Romanian and British companies.
- Provides consultancy to Romanian companies, including legal and financial advice, to ensure their interests are protected when they do business with British partners or in the United Kingdom.
- Offers specialist assistance in negotiations between Romanian companies and UK organisations (private companies, state-owned firms, business associations, national or local chambers of commerce, etc.).
- Facilitates contact and dealings between members and partners from Romania and the UK, so that they can safely and lawfully carry out commercial activities such as import-export, investment and consulting.
- Helps company representatives or staff register for and attend seminars or workshops organised by the UK Government on the business environment and commercial law in the UK. The Chamber also supports enrolment on courses that develop skills for negotiating with British partners, including English language lessons.
- Lists Romanian companies’ business opportunities and projects on the Chamber’s website and distributes this information to all members through its internal communication system.
- Offers its Romanian members preferential rates for logistics services contracted by the Chamber, including support with land and air transport, inspections and checks on imported and exported goods, customs procedures, and related matters.
- Assists with planning and booking leisure and business trips through members or British partners.
Business Information, Research, and Useful Resources
More Information
- Gives members access to the Chamber’s database and to the market studies, economic forecasts, and statistics it prepares on economic and social developments in the United Kingdom.
- Provides information on the business environment, public policy, and intellectual property in the UK.
- Keeps Romanian members up to date with the legislative framework affecting business and investment opportunities in the UK.
- Offers Romanian companies useful information on attracting investment or finance for their projects in the UK or Romania.
- Informs members about the laws, rules, and procedures for registering a company in the UK (for example, when a Romanian company wants to open a UK branch or a Romanian entrepreneur plans to register a UK company).
- Provides members with the rules and regulations that UK companies must comply with.
Visibility and Promotion
- Grants member companies the right to use the Chamber’s logo alongside their own logo in promotional materials, brochures, flyers, and other documents.
- Presents awards and honorary titles to member companies or their representatives for their work, projects or business partnerships with British companies.
How Membership Works
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Romania – Great Britain exists to build lasting economic ties between the two countries. This section sets out what membership means for a company, what the working groups are, and what the Chamber offers Romanians in the diaspora.
What Membership Means
A member company receives introductions, visibility and a place in the Chamber’s community, and brings its own experience and contacts to it.
Who can join
Membership is open to companies in Romania and the United Kingdom, from start-ups and SMEs to large corporations, at four levels set by company size: SME Member (up to 20 employees), Business Member (21 to 100 employees), Corporate Member (more than 100 employees) and Founding Member, open to no more than 20 companies.
What members receive
The benefits of membership fall into five areas: Business Growth, Visibility, Community, Knowledge and Member Savings. Depending on the membership level, in practice this means strategic introductions, matchmaking and referrals, business delegations, market entry support, a company profile, speaking opportunities, business breakfasts, executive roundtables, workshops and webinars, market intelligence and preferential rates.
What members bring
Vice President Cornel Bertea Hanganu invites members to use the Chamber as “an active platform for connection”: “to bring to the same table the companies looking for partners, the investors looking for opportunities and the organisations that have projects capable of generating impact.”
The Working Groups
The Chamber’s working groups are its six sector committees and its Education Department. The committees group members by sector, and the Education Department is led by one of the Chamber’s Vice Presidents.
Six sector committees
The committees are DAPS (Digital Economy, AI and Professional Services), AEAM (Automotive, Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing), EIIT (Energy, Infrastructure and Industrial Transition), CIMA (Capital, Investment and Market Access), ECTL (Education, Connectivity, Travel and Logistics) and AFCG (Agri-food, Beverages and Consumer Goods). Each covers a group of related sectors.
Committees and membership
A committee brings together member companies working in its sectors in Romania and in the United Kingdom. Committee work falls under Community, one of the five areas of membership; that area also covers business breakfasts, executive roundtables, the Chamber Podcast and ambassador events.
The Education Department
The Education Department is led by Andrei Răzvan Nacea, Vice President of the Chamber and President of the Department. His work for the Chamber focuses on business and educational relations between Romania and the United Kingdom, and on connecting organisations in the two countries. Education also falls within the remit of the ECTL committee.
Skills, training and retraining
The President, Felicia Akkaya, makes human capital an important part of her mandate: education, vocational training and retraining, and bringing schools closer to the labour market. For a company that needs qualified staff, or wants to retrain its own, this is the part of the Chamber’s work that concerns it most directly.
What the Chamber Offers the Romanian Diaspora
The Chamber’s President regards the Romanian diaspora as a source of experience, skills and capital, and as one of the most important links between Romania and the United Kingdom. For Romanians living and working in the United Kingdom, this is what the Chamber offers in practice.
Branch presidents in British cities
The Chamber has branch presidents in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield and Glasgow, and its office is in London. Several of them are Romanians settled in the United Kingdom, and dialogue with the Romanian communities there is part of the President’s mandate. A Romanian professional or company in or near one of these cities can approach the Chamber through its branch president there.
Introductions in both directions
Membership includes strategic introductions, matchmaking and referrals, business delegations and market entry support. These can help a Romanian-owned business in the United Kingdom that wants partners in Romania, as well as a Romanian company that wants to enter the British market, something the President’s mandate sets out to support.
Reconnecting with the Romanian economy
The President’s mandate also includes setting up mechanisms to reconnect the experience, skills and capital of Romanians abroad with the Romanian economy. This part of the Chamber’s work is relevant to members who want to invest in Romania or put their professional experience to use there.
Experience gained abroad
Marius Spătaru, President of the Chamber’s London Branch, stresses the part the diaspora can play: experience gained and relationships built abroad can support initiatives in Romania and create new commercial and educational links. A member can put this into practice through the Chamber’s committees, introductions and business delegations.
In Romania
In Romania, the Chamber has branch presidents in Bucharest, Brașov, Iași and Craiova; the president of the Cluj-Napoca branch is still to be appointed. In Iași, the branch president’s work focuses on the business community of Romania’s North-East and its connections with companies and opportunities in the United Kingdom. A member interested in a particular region of Romania can be introduced to the Chamber’s branch president there.
How to Join
To apply for membership, or to ask a question first, write to the Chamber, send a WhatsApp message or call the number below.
- Mobile
- +44 7983 802 036
- +40 769 912 938
- Email Address
- [email protected]
- Office Address
- 4th Floor, Fitzroy Street, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 6EB