Club Membership

Interim
If you wish to attend one or more meets to see whether this is the club for you, you can join for a 6-month period as an Interim member. No membership subscription is required, just the normal fee for meet(s) that you attend. You can later progress to become an Associate or Ordinary member.

Associate
If you do not wish any trial meets with the Club, you can join as an Associate member. The extent of your hillwalking experience does not matter. You need to have your application proposed and seconded by two Ordinary members who know you, though if you start as an Interim member and join in President's Parties, the leaders will normally propose and second you.

Ordinary
For Ordinary membership, you have to satisfy the Committee that you have, in general terms, the experience and ability to look after yourself and lead others in all conditions normally encountered on the Scottish hills. You have to set out your experience on the application form, as well as having it proposed and seconded. You can of course join as an Associate and transfer later to Ordinary membership.

For all three types of membership, you have to be aged at least 16.

The membership application form, which can be downloaded by clicking here (Adobe PDF format / MS Word format), can be used to apply for any of the three types of membership. To join as an Interim member, you have to submit it to the appropriate Meets Secretary or Committee member with payment (if needed) for whatever activity you first want to book for. To join as an Associate or Ordinary member, you have to submit it to the Membership Secretary for consideration at the next committee meeting. You do not need to send any payment. The Membership Secretary will let you know once the application has been considered and will inform you of the amount payable as first subscription.

The basic annual subscription, for years running to 30 September, is currently £23.60 . A reduction to £17.10 applies for members aged over 65 or under 21, members up to 25 and still in full-time education, and members normally resident and working more than 80 kilometres from Aberdeen. First subscriptions are fractions of a full year's subscription, reflecting the number of quarters from the admission date to 30 September.