Membership

Back in 1968 many students and staff of the then City of Leeds College of Education (Becketts Park Campus*, Headingley) contributed considerable time, effort and money to help establish what we have today. Some of those stalwarts are still amongst our membership, indeed, our President was one of them!

Membership is open to those who have visited the Centre enough to become familiar with its ways and standards. It offers greater involvement to those who are sympathetic with the aims of the Association and would like to help contribute to the Centre and its work. Each year the steering committee is drawn from the membership and welcome ideas and input from them. Individuals aged 18 and over can apply by a simple letter mentioning your involvement to date and willingness to support our aims, and this can be posted or emailed to the Warden or given to a member of the committee to be vetted at the next meeting. There are usually 5 or 6 of these each year on members weekends.

Members and their children (up to age 18) will benefit from a reduced bednight rate and receive 3 or 4 newsletters a year to keep you informed of events at the Centre and around the valley. We have at least 8 weekends a year which are set aside for members (and guests) and are often at Bank holidays to make them longer. At least one of these will be a family week, and one will be a working week (usually August). At this period, anyone is welcome to come and share their skills – be it cleaning, painting, repairs, wood collection, catering, or their experiences or jokes(?), etc., etc. However, in the interests of safety, you will appreciate that we have to discourage children during this period.

Perhaps you have other skills you would be willing to share with us? We are occasionally in need of such services as legal, technical, conservation, building, tutorial, PR, financial, charity, management, etc. Our current membership is around 190.

For membership enquiries, please contact the Membership secretary.
Annual membership is currently £30 per year. Ten year and Life memberships are also available at 7 and 14 times the annual rate.

*This Campus is now part of The Leeds Metropolitan University and Low Gillerthwaite Field Centre is completely independent from them.

Members' weekends for 2008
(cm = committee meeting)

January 18 - 20 (cm)

February 29 - March 2 (cm)

March 20 to 24 (Easter)

May 2 - 5 (cm)

June 20 - 22 (cm)

August 16 - 23 (working week)

August 24 - 31 (family week)

September 19 - 21 (cm)

November 14 - 16 (AGM, cm)

December 27 - Jan 1 2009