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Membership Benefits
Membership of the Cairngorm Club
brings you a number of benefits,
including:
o Regular meets throughout the
year, e.g.
o monthly day
(usually Sundays) meets to the
hills
o monthly
week-end meets, usually to huts
or hostels in Scotland
o monthly
social meets (e.g. indoor
slide-show talks) during the
winter
o Tuesday
evening climbing meets to cliffs
near Aberdeen or Transition
Extreme climbing wall
o Monthly
Thursday “mid-week” walks within
an hour’s drive from Aberdeen
o Annual
Dinner, barbecue, ceilidh and
other social events
o Reduced rates and guaranteed
beds at the high-standard Club
“hut” at Muir of Inverey, and
reciprocal use of sister club
huts
o Access to the member-only
Forum website, Club website,
e-mail system, etc.
o Reduced costs of Club training
courses, e.g. in winter skills,
and first aid
o Subsidies on other relevant
training courses
o Membership of the North East
Mountain Trust (NEMT), providing
representation at local level
o Membership of the
Mountaineering Council of
Scotland (MCofS), providing
representation at national
level, civil
liability insurance against claims incurred during Club activities,
the quarterly Scottish
Mountaineer magazine, and
reduced costs for travel insurance, training courses, etc. for
hillwalkers, climbing and
mountaineers (see
http://www.mcofs.org.uk/member-benefits.asp
for further details)
o The Club Newsletter three
times a year, and the Cairngorm
Club Journal every couple of
years
o Use of the extensive Club
Library at Kings College,
University of Aberdeen
o Discounts at leading
Aberdeen-area climbing equipment
shops
o Discount at a leading
Aberdeen-area Physio
o Use of the Club’s National
Trust membership cards.
Membership Options
There are three types of membership:
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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.
If you think that the Club is of
interest to you but you cannot
manage to attend any of the
activities detailed in the current
Members Newsletter, please
nevertheless contact the Membership
Secretary, and he will see that you
receive a copy of the next one.
Club Subscriptions
At
their recent AGM, the MCofS changed
their membership year for club
members to 1st April to
31st March, instead of
from one AGM to the next. This has
meant the introduction of a
transition period of approximately 7
months from 5th September
2009 to 31st March 2010.
The MCofS have set the affiliation
fee (including the Civil Liability
Insurance premium) for this period
at £7.50 with the affiliation fee
for the following 12 months being
set at £13.00 (the same level as at
present).
This has resulted in the following
Club Subscriptions:
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2009/2010 |
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Club |
MCofS +
Insurance |
Total |
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Full |
£13.00 |
£7.50 |
£20.50 |
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Reduced |
£6.50 |
£7.50 |
£14.00 |
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2010/2011 |
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Club |
MCofS +
Insurance |
Total |
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Full |
£13.00 |
£13.00 |
£26.00 |
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Reduced |
£6.50 |
£13.00 |
£19.50 |
Subscriptions for the
year 2009/2010 become due on 1st
October 2009. For those paying by
Direct Debit this will be collected
automatically on 1st December 2009.
Others should send their
subscriptions to Derek Pinches, the
Club Treasurer.
The reduced rate
above is available for members who,
on 1st October, were aged
65 or over, or under 21; or under 25
and still in full-time education, or
who
are normally resident and
working more than 80km from
Aberdeen. First subscriptions are
fractions of a full year's
subscription, based on the number of
quarters from the admission date to
30 September.
Club Constitution
The current version
of the Cairngorm Club constitution can be
downloaded
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