Membership Rules and rates for life membership
Membership is open to:
Serving and retired personnel, of all ranks of the Royal Navy, the Army and the Royal Air Force, and of any other Armed Forces of the Crown, including the Reserve Forces, whether constituted or raised in the United Kingdom or in any other part of the British Commonwealth of Nations or the British Empire; their husbands, wives, partners, civil partners and relatives (see note below); their widowers, widows, survivors of partnerships and relatives.
On divorce or breakdown of a partnership or civil partnership, an ex-husband, ex-wife, ex-partner or ex-civil partner is most welcome to remain or become a Member of the Society.
Subscriptions
| Annual Membership: | ||
|---|---|---|
| (i) | All Members whether single or with spouses, civil partners or partners as Joint Members | £30.00 |
| (ii) | Surviving spouses, civil partners or partners of a deceased serving/retired member of HM Forces | £15.00 |
| Life Membership - All members, whether single or joint membership, where the member or relative of a deceased member of HM Forces is: | ||
|---|---|---|
(NB. the figure in brackets is the rate for a surviving spouse, civil partner or partner of a deceased member of HM Forces) |
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| Up to age 41 | £560 (£280) | |
| 41 and under 45 | £540 (£270) | |
| 45 and under 49 | £520 (£260) | |
| 49 and under 53 | £500 (£250) | |
| 53 and under 57 | £470 (£235) | |
| 57 and under 61 | £440 (£220) | |
| 61 and under 65 | £400 (£200) | |
| 65 and under 68 | £370 (£185) | |
| 68 and under 72 | £340 (£170) | |
| 72 and under 77 | £310 (£155) | |
| 77 and over | £250 (£125) | |
Note: Relatives are confined to father, mother, son, daughter, stepchildren or grandchildren of a member of HM Forces.
The Society is a Company limited by Guarantee, not having a share capital (incorporated under the Companies Act 1948). Clause 6 of the Society’s Memorandum of Association is in the following terms:
“Every Member of the Association (that is, this Society) undertakes to contribute to the assets of the Association, in the event of the same being wound up while he is a Member, or within a year after he ceases to be a Member, for payments of debts and liabilities of the Association contracted before he ceases to be a Member, and of the costs, charges and expenses of winding up, and for the adjustment of the rights of the contributors among themselves, such amounts as may be required not exceeding twenty-five pence.”
