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How to join The Stockport ME Group

To become a member please complete the form at the bottom. If you would like a free membership ( we give one out to anyone who asks for one without question), want to pay in a different method ( direct bank transfer or PayPal Donate) or just want to pay a different amount than the standard £12 ( people are welcome to donate less or more than our suggested rate) then you can do so from this page here.

If you are a UK tax payer then we would appreciate if you could complete our gift aid form too (or select the box in our electronic form) as that adds a good amount extra to whatever contribution you make.

Stockport ME Group relies on Membership to meet most of our costs. We do not however want to exclude anyone from being or feeling part of what we do because of money. Our standard rate of membership is £12 although people are welcome to pay more or even join for free. Our membership renews about October time so if you are joining much later in the season such as May for example you might wish to pay £6 initially. Anyone joining in August/September will count as joining for the 24-25 season with September being thrown in for free.

We are always happy to have non-members come along to one or two of our meetings to see if our group is right for them but we do encourage people who are regularly involved in the group to join. Also to receive our Newsletter HERMES, borrow equipment or books, receive Benefits and Work Guides, get support beyond basic signposting or to participate in some of our events and activities you would need to join.

Once you have completed the membership form you should get an automatic response and then usually within a few days but occasionally in as long as 3 weeks you will get an email from someone on the committee confirming receipt of your membership. If you do not get this then please get in touch with us. Occasionally we have run into issues with a form getting lost in the ether and not reaching us.

In the 2023-24 season we were able to get funding from Stockport Council for people in Stockport with Long Covid for them to have memberships paid for, we have not been able to secure this moving forward as those funds have shrunk.

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Membership

• I wish to renew my membership
• I wish to become a member

How would you like to receive our newsletter?

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• Both

Please note that with printing and postage each issue costs about £4. If you are happy to receive this digitally helping SMEG save money and also helping the environment, please indicate this below.

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• To receive our Newsletter by Post
• To receive our Newsletter by Email
• To receive occasional email updates of our meetings and special events
• To receive membership reminders and occasional other correspondence e.g. member surveys

Your privacy is important to us and we want to communicate with members in a way which has their consent, and which is in line with UK law on data protection. As a result of a change in UK law, we now need your consent in how we hold information about you and how we contact you. By signing this form you are confirming that you are consenting to Stockport ME Group holding and processing your personal data for the preceeding purposes (please tick the boxes for which you grant consent). You can consent to all the purposes; one of the purposes or none of the purposes. Where you do not grant consent we will not be able to use your personal data; (so we wouldn’t be able to send you our newsletter, membership renewal reminders, tell you about events etc); except in certain limited situations, such as where required to do so by law or to protect members of the public from serious harm. You can withdraw or change your consent at any time by contacting our membership secretary Shirley Lynham

Standard Membership Donation *

Our membership runs from 1st October to 30th September and we recommend a donation of at least £12 but you are welcome to give more if you wish. If you are not in a position to pay then please use our separate form for a free membership.

Minimum Price: £10.00

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Gift Aid DeclarationI would like the Stockport ME Group to treat all donations and subscriptions that I have made since 6th April 2000 and all donations that I make from the date of this declaration as Gift Aid Donations, until I notify you otherwise and I consent to Stockport ME Group holding my data for this purpose on their paper and electronic systems.I am not eligible or do not want this to be treated as a Gift Aid donation

If you are eligible for Gift Aid and willing to make membership subscriptions and donations we receive from you as gift aid it would add 25% to any monies we receive.

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