Joining, or renewing membership

New members:     email the to let him know that you wish to join the club.
Once he has replied you can pay the annual subscription as described below, and also add your contact details to the club database by filling in the contact details form.
Before doing that you should have a look at the JMCS privacy policy.

Current members:     simply pay the subscription as described below
(the subscription form below will notify the treasurer that you have paid, so you do not need to email him).
If any contact details need to be updated fill these in on the contact details form.

Paying the annual subscription

Annual JMCS subscription rates for 1 November 2024 - 31 October 2025:

Full Subscription £39.00
Reduced Subscription £12.25

If you are not sure which subscription you should be paying, see the Notes on Mountaineering Scotland membership below.
If you are still not sure, then email the .

How to pay the subscription

  • Pay by bank transfer (cheques are no longer acceptable). If you cannot pay by bank transfer, email the .
    The bank account details are:
           
    Under new payee name checks by the banks, you might need to type in the full account name as above.

When making a transfer please do the following.  

  • Put   'surname   subs'   as the transfer 'reference', where 'surname' is your surname.
        Please put exactly this as the reference since:
    • the surname is needed since some banks choose not to forward the name of the payer to the payee....
    • the exact word 'subs' helps greatly in sorting 'subs' payments into the right category in the accounts.
  • Fill in the following:   subscriptions form
    • This form just asks for your name and has a tick box for how much you have paid.
      It will notify the treasurer that you have paid   (so you do not need to email the treasurer or do anything further).
    • You can pay for several people in one bank transfer.
      However, the subs form only takes one name at a time, so if you have paid for more than one person simply reopen the form for each person and input their details separately.
      Don't try to input several names into the same form, it will just break the formatting!

Notes on Mountaineering Scotland membership

The two JMCS subscription rates relate to Affiliated Club Membership of Mountaineering Scotland (MS).
There is more information about this on the MS website at: Club Subscriptions, but here is a brief attempt to explain it.

  • Full Subscription   If you are not in MS by any other route then you pay us the 'Full Subscription'.
    We will then pay to MS their Affiliated Club Subscription on your behalf and you will then become an 'Affiliated Club Member' of MS.
  • Reduced Subscription   If you are already a member of MS, either as an individual member or as a member of another club which pays an Affiliated Club Subscription to MS on your behalf, then JMCS does not have to pay MS another subscription on your behalf.
    So, in this case you need only pay us our Reduced Subscription (as above), which is simply our full subscription minus the MS subscription.
  • NB   It is a condition of JMCS affiliation to MS that all JMCS members must be members of MS, either as individual members or affiliated club members.
    So, if you are a new JMCS member and you elect to pay the Reduced Subscription, you should tell the by what route you are a member of MS. The Treasurer will then inform MS of this when paying the general JMCS affiliation subscription to MS
    (for long-standing members the Treasurer already has this information, so don't tell him again unless anything changes).