The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) is the UK's learned and professional society for mathematics and its applications. Founded in 1964, we were incorporated by Royal Charter in 1990 and subsequently granted the right to award Chartered Mathematician designation. We also award the Chartered Scientist designation and the Chartered Mathematics Teacher designation. We promote mathematics research, education and careers, and the use of mathematics in business, industry and commerce. Among our activities we produce academic journals, organise conferences, and engage with government. Our members come from a multiplicity of different organisations – we have university academics, industrial engineers, financiers, school teachers, scientists, civil servants, and so on. Because mathematics is ubiquitous, so is our membership base. We currently have around 5,000 members, of whom about forty per-cent are employed in education (schools through to universities), with most of the rest in commercial, industrial and governmental organisations.