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Apply to Join/Renew Your Membership
Renewal of £15 membership subs is due in January each year; cut-off deadline August
Membership years run from 1st January - 31st December: -
Renewing members should re-join in January
Deadline for applications is midnight of 31st August, by when all membership forms and money must be received for those wishing to join Hastings Procession, enter the fire site and attend out-meetings.
Membership then re-opens at our November members meeting.
New members joining early in November for the following year get this November and December free.
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Complete the membership form.
Send your payment
New online membership form is below - it fills out your membership form for you and emails it to Sue, and can even be done by smartphone.
Blank screen? If the screen above here seems blank, then scroll up to see the message 'Your application has been received - many thanks!'
Without our members this event would not take place - so if you love Hastings Bonfire please join to support and be part of it. Come along to meet us and find out more. You can join at meetings or on-line below.
Membership years run from 1st January - 31st December: -
Renewing members should re-join in January
The deadline for applications is midnight of 31st August, by when all membership forms and money must be received for those wishing to join Hastings Procession, enter the fire site and attend out-meetings.
Membership then re-opens at our November members meeting.
New members joining in November get November and December free.
Our members may join in our procession, and join us at processions of other societies throughout the bonfire season, subject to appropriate costume and following our rules. Due to insurance and health & safety we cannot allow those who are not members of our, or other invited societies, join in processions or enter fire sites.
Members are covered by the HBBS insurance whilst participating in HBBS organised activities - our events - which is also required to accept invitations from other Sussex Bonfire Societies.
Where we are invited to other societies processions, other societies insist all invited societies provide copies of our insurance showing our members are covered at our own event.
Each member must wear their current year procession badge to processions with us. Membership is not transferable; only the member(s) named on the membership form is allowed to wear their procession badge.
To do:
Complete the above membership form.
Send your payment
2024 form update: following a request from a member, it does not now require you to register with Google. You are now asked to use this online membership form going forward. Sue now hopes to dispense with printed membership forms in due course. Access the the members website will require google registration as per hbbs.info/members
Other routes to apply for membership, if you must!
We now prefer you to use the online application from above
But if you want another way then please come to a Members meeting and join there
We meet on the second Tuesday of each month at 8pm at the White Rock Hotel, 1-10 White Rock, Hastings TN34 1JU.
Make yourself known to our Membership Secretary, Sue.
This may be the best route for cash payments.
Membership subscription payment details
You can pay your £15 subs per adult either by standing order, BACS, PayPal, cash or cheque: -
Pay by Bank Transfer
Please pay by BACS, or ideally by Standing Order every 1 January.
Payee's Name: HBBS
Sort Code : 30-97-66
Acc no: 00172308
Ref: your initial(s) & last name
Pay by Cash or Cheque
Please give cash or cheques to our Membership secretary Sue at a member meeting, or post it through the address on the membership form. We would rather no longer receive cash or cheques.
or by PayPal
Our PayPal recurring annual subscription button is now working again. If you do this, make double sure our membership secretary knows this was for subs and not just any donation and send/give her the form
This version is an annual subscription - please only set this up in January each year. A single-year version (one-off subscription) button will be created shortly.
Then: Whichever way you pay, please then contact our Membership Secretary, Sue, and say hello and how you've paid and to hand over, or attach your membership form if you don't expect to make a second-Tuesday Membership meeting soon to hand it in - membership-secretary@hbbs.info
Dress code if you want to process with us as a member