Show your support for the PDA and support charity at the same time.

The PDA has introduced the option for members to purchase branded items, such as lanyards, folders, bags, accessories, hats, scarves and other clothing enabling members to promote their membership while also generating charity donations.

Sustainability

In accordance with efforts to minimise carbon footprint, items available are practical items that pharmacists will need, and the PDA has partnered with a supplier that includes recycled products in their range.As the supplier also partners with membership bodies in other sectors, the production and logistics also mean that items are generally made to order, leading to further waste reduction.

Supporting Charities

With arrangements like these, where a membership organisation such as a union or professional body can inform members of the option to buy items, there is no need for marketing spend by the suppliers. As a result, the items can be competitively priced and for some products there can also be a commission earned by the membership organisation.

The PDA will take no income from this arrangement and instead donate any commission earned from the sale of these items to the charities we support, such as Pharmacist Support and PASS.This means purchasing a PDA branded item can also mean a donation to charity.

Choice of PDA logos

As well as the core PDA and PDA Union logos, pharmacists can choose to purchase items branded to show their support for any of our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) or student networks:

How does this help the PDA to help pharmacists?

The PDA already has over 34,000 members and continues to grow.  Already the largest pharmacists’ membership organisation and only independent trade union exclusively for pharmacists in the UK, the PDA wants to encourage those who have not yet joined, to do so.

The PDA exists to further the interests of employed and locum pharmacists and some of the most difficult calls received are from pharmacists seeking individual support, but who have not yet joined. However, every extra member is another member that can be supported, and every time the organisation’s logo is seen it is another reminder that the PDA are available to provide support members.

Even more members mean the PDA have even more opportunities to receive direct feedback from practicing pharmacists from across all areas of practice and across the UK.  Higher membership numbers increase the unions’ negotiating strength with employers, and influence with others too.

Pharmacists displaying the PDA logo in their day to day activity, may also remind those who would otherwise treat pharmacists badly that even if a member is the only pharmacist in their workplace they are not alone.  This profession is now unionised, the PDA is actively anti-racist and against all forms of discrimination, and individuals do not have to rely on their employer for defence.