membership renewal

[sketchweppers]

I received my family membership renewal to my email address, as I am the person who deals with such matters, but the email was addressed to my husband at my email address!
Then shortly after paying online by credit card, I recieved some email membership cards.
However I only received three - for me and the two children - not one for my husband - who is down at member 1 of our family group.
I have sent an email to BOF, but based on past performance it could be a while before I get any reply. Has anyone else had similar experience?

[Spookster]

I received my family membership renewal to my email address, as I am the person who deals with such matters, but the email was addressed to my husband at my email address!
Then shortly after paying online by credit card, I recieved some email membership cards.
However I only received three - for me and the two children - not one for my husband - who is down at member 1 of our family group.
I have sent an email to BOF, but based on past performance it could be a while before I get any reply. Has anyone else had similar experience?

Log into your account on the BOF website and check which email address is associated with which member of your family. It sounds like there may be another email address with your name associated with it, and your email address has your husband's name associated with it.

I renewed our family membership ok (2 seniors), and then we each got an email with the PDF letter/membership card, correctly addressed, to the email address we each have against our names in the system.

[pete.owens]

The difficulty I have is trying pay for club family membership, as the BOF system seems to have different rules about what constitutes a family than our club.

[NFKleanne]

British orienteering don't do families any more, you pay for each person individully, irrespective of if you club has family membership

[smf]

The difficulty I have is trying pay for club family membership, as the BOF system seems to have different rules about what constitutes a family than our club.

The problem seems to be that some clubs have not realised that the definition of a junior has changed. Until 2012 family juniors could be up to the year in which they are 25. This was changed for 2013 to be up to the year in which they are 21, ie the same as individual juniors.

[pete.owens]

British orienteering don't do families any more, you pay for each person individully, irrespective of if you club has family membership

But our CLUB does do family membership. I have no problem paying individual BOF membership fees, but why does the system try to extract an individual CLUB membership fee from one member of our family - and how does it decide which member to exclude from the family unit?

[King Penguin]

I suppose BOF must be going to write to them to tell them they need to renew

No sign yet of any invitation to renew to our 23-year-old who was part of our family membership when we renewed at this time last year. Maybe people in this age category are not wanted ?

[Mrs H]

Well one of the letters actually contained Neville's renewal notice as well and as described above also a fee for a full adult individual memberships of HOC for each one of them. I've asked the club membership secretary for clarification on this and am awaiting a reply as we were obviously just a family unit last year. I wonder if the clubs really understand the implications of this - presumably we are all entitled to our own printed copy of the news letter now. That's going to send costs soaring.

If the girls have to pay £13.50 on top of the £5 then I suspect it will be HOC who will loose them as they have both just paid their ShUOC subs (I think) I'm not sure what Neville might do - can you just be a member of SPOOK?

[Spookster]

I'm not sure what Neville might do - can you just be a member of SPOOK?

You certainly can, and it's good value too!

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[Mrs H]

Interesting - I've just checked the HOC constitution on this and it just says follows BOF definition so I've asked the club what they are going to do on the forum as this was definitely not flagged up at the AGM and I think £13.50 X 3 is a bit steep for the amount they do on home ground.

Mind you I've heard they preform rather well at SPOOK/ShUOC events

[smf]

I'm not sure what Neville might do - can you just be a member of SPOOK?

You certainly can, and it's good value too!

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That seems to show SPOOK/YHOA/BOF membership, not SPOOK only which Mrs H asked!

You cannot just join a club it has to be Club/Region/BOF.

[EddieH]

Unfortunately due to an administrative cock-up BOF no longer recognise that it is possible to belong to 2 clubs, despite the fact that the rules, at least when this came about, allowed you to compete for 1 closed and 1 open club in a season.

Therefore if they are members of SHUOC or SPOOK then there would seem to be no point whatever in joining HOC as well.

[roadrunner]

You cannot just join a club it has to be Club/Region/BOF.

I don't think that's right - certainly my club (BKO) offers "local" membership as an option. I can't see any reason why you can't join as many clubs as you want to, as long as you only compete for one open club and one closed club.

[SJC]

I can't see any reason why you can't join as many clubs as you want to.

You can join as many clubs as you want. However as far as BOF is concerned you only belong to one of them.

[smf]

You cannot just join a club it has to be Club/Region/BOF.

I don't think that's right - certainly my club (BKO) offers "local" membership as an option. I can't see any reason why you can't join as many clubs as you want to, as long as you only compete for one open club and one closed club.

The image Spookster posted was for Club/Region/BOF, not Club only as indicated in his posting.

We too have members that are club only, but they all belong to and run for other clubs.

I know of a club that says you can join as a member to compete in its events without any region or BOF membership at all. ie they are not members of any other club.