Icon Early Career Membership

From £5.50 per month*

Are you a student or emerging professional passionate about cultural heritage and conservation? Join Icon and unlock a world of exclusive benefits designed to support your academic and professional journey. If you're a student, apprentice, or within the first five years of your conservation career, you qualify!

Join as an Early Career Member

Member benefits

Early Career Advice Sessions led by ACRs, Pathway Associates, and sector peers
Emerging Professionals Networking Series
Conference Buddy Scheme and Pre-Conference Virtual Socials
On-demand Video Library of past webinars and lectures
Weekly jobs email, Icon's monthly newsletter, and up to 40% off Icon events
Access to the Emerging Professionals Group (and all 20+ of Icon's other Groups - from Metals to Textiles, there's something for everyone!)
Icon's quarterly Iconnect Magazine with colourful commentary on recent conservation projects, and how your colleagues across the sector are scaling complex and challenging approaches to their projects
Three issues a year of Journal of the Institute of Conservation - and online access to everything that has ever been published in this or its antecedent titles. That puts thousands of articles at your finger tips!
Discounts on British Standards, Routledge, and CRC Press titles

* Based on payment for membership via monthly direct debit. Price varies depending on payment method and frequency.

How much does membership cost (2025-26)?

Membership Type *note that memberships are pro-rated so may differ from these figures according to the time of year/DD instalments/your specific renewal date	Card/cheque fee	Direct debit fee (can be split into quarterly and monthly payments)
Accredited	£286	£270
Accredited Concessionary	£223	£218
Pathway	£200	£187
Pathway Concessionary	£166	£153
Associate	£166	£153
Associate Concessionary	£132	£121
Early Career	£74	£66
Supporter	£74	£66
Emeritus	£114	£105