Survey Liaison Group

THE voice for the UK Survey Profession

The Survey Liaison Group (SLG) was originally the Industry Liaison Group and was set up in the 1980’s by RICS, CICES and GSA with the intention of becoming THE voice for the UK Survey Profession. In 2006 the group was reformed and named as the SLG or Survey Liaison Group.  It was felt that this name better reflected the aims and intentions of the group. 

The group meets regularly, with a mixture of online and in-person meetings. SLG Terms of Reference.

Our aims

  • To ensure transparency and avoid overlap, duplication, or conflicting activities among the three organisations
  • To endorse each other’s documents where relevant
  • To work together on events such as exhibitions and/or conferences
  • To collaborate on supporting survey education and training courses
  • To collaborate on survey profession training and education activities

Survey Liaison Group Members

Collaboration
cooperation
education

Recent work

The SLG has achieved many things over the years such as endorsement of each other’s guidance notes and client guides – this was the ethos behind the group originally to avoid duplication of effort in the survey profession. Cooperation is vital within such a small work sector and we continue to meet regularly to share updates and work together wherever possible.

Geo:Influence was a new event from the SLG in 2025, focusing on education and skills by identifying key challenges, gathering key leaders and agreeing action. This has now led to many new initiatives, including The Geospatial Accord and national marketing campaign to gain greater recognition of geospatial surveying.

Please get in touch

If there are any issues that are affecting your organisation that you believe the SLG could help with, please let us know.

Contact Rachel Tyrrell