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Membership
WARLEY MODEL RAILWAY CLUB is always ready to welcome new members. If you would like to find out more about the club, its membership and its benefits these notes should help. You will, of course, want to visit the club and to avoid a wasted journey it is recommended that you contact someone first. OO, N, EM and NG groups normally meet on Tuesdays, and O & S7 groups usually meet on Wednesdays. There is also a Friday OO group, as well as a Student Members group which meets on alternate Friday evenings. There are a few evenings when the clubroom is not open to visitors, such as when formal members meetings are taking place.
What does the club offer?
Joining us has lots of benefits. Being a member of the club that organises the best model railway exhibition in the country is one. Having access to all sorts of railway modelling education, including the chance to learn new modelling skills or develop existing ones, plus the social life, and of course the layouts! are others.
Being in the club has the advantage that there’s always an ‘expert’ in your favourite subject, be it GWR steam, painting Virgin coaches, building Welsh narrow gauge layouts and so on. Tap into the huge amount of knowledge that these experts have. We’re all there to help each other.
Membership
There are several types of membership available and these are designed to suit all needs:
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Full |
Full membership is available to all persons over 18 years of age.
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Student |
Open to all persons from the age of 12 years until their 18th birthday. Student members shall be accompanied by a parent or adult appointed by the parents when the student attends the club rooms or club event. Parents of Student members may apply to join the club.
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Associate |
Membership is available for those who do not live locally. There are no voting rights with associate membership and is suited for those who want to be kept in touch with the club activities
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Out of Town membership is available for people who live more than 50 miles away. This grade of membership carries voting rights as well as the right to stand on the committee, and is ideal for active members who can’t visit the club regularly.
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Retired |
Persons over the age of 60 are welcome as retired members. |
How Much?
All rates are per annum and there are various means of paying.
The following rates were approved at the AGM 6 March 2013
Full £126
Retired £84
Student £36
Associate £20
Out of Town Full £63
Out of Town Retired £42
As a cold statement you may feel that the subs represent a lot of money, but remember as a full member it is about £2.50 per week - the equivalent of a lot less than two litres of car fuel, less than a pint in most locals, less than a cup of coffee in a lot of places and less than a return trip to Birmingham on a West Midlands bus. Not only that, but for your subscription you have access to the clubroom on each and every club evening - currently 3 evenings per week; a free cup of tea or coffee every evening you attend (remember £2 a cup in most outlets); access to your own show - The Warley National - as well as the Open Days. I think you may agree that is not a bad return on being a member.
Further information
Hopefully this page has told you all you need to know, but if you would like further information, please e-mail the membership secretary: Nigel Smith
Next Step
Fill in an application, available here or pick one up when you visit the club.