Membership fees are now due
At the club AGM on 21 January 2025 I presented a report on the juniors section. Included in this was the proposal for membership fees for 2025.
Membership fees for juniors for the year 1 January to 31 December 2025 will be:
- Junior full membership (weekly training) £40 (no change)
- Junior limited training (10 sessions or fewer) £20 (no change). It is permissible for parents to choose this at the beginning of the year and then pay an extra £20 if/when their child has come to 10 sessions to convert to full membership.
- Juniors school year 1 will also be charged £20 but with no limit on sessions – there are no races accepting this age group in the first 8 months of the year and we offer training sessions to them when spaces permit and when ground conditions are suitable, hence the reduced rate.
- Junior social membership (no training, no competition other than parkrun) £5 (no change)
- Juniors reception year and younger will also be charged £5 but with no limit on sessions – there are no races accepting this age group in the year and we offer training sessions to them when spaces permit and when ground conditions are suitable, hence the reduced rate.
Regarding juniors who compete in West Yorkshire League and higher competition for which England Athletics affiliation is mandatory or who compete in adult events such as the Leeds 5k at the Brownlee Centre … they will need pay an additional £22 to cover the EA and Northern Athletics affiliation fees. This can be paid now but is not required until entering their first event .
NEW for 2025 – all members of the “C” group are expected to affiliate to England Athletics. This is in line with the policy that all adult members must affiliate to EA
Note that older juniors who don’t come to junior training sessions may find it cheaper to join as “Young Adults”, please email to juniors@valleystriders.org.uk for information.
Some good news – most of you are entitled to some discounts on the above fees. The next few paragraphs explain how these discounts have been calculated, but you can skip these and just look at the table to see if you are entitled to any!
Between 2017 and 2019 we had included in the membership fee the entry fees to selected local races as an incentive to try these / take part. The races included in the scheme were all local and all suitable for all abilities. Unfortunately, the scheme fell apart in March 2020 when all races were cancelled and we felt obliged to return the value of these entry fees when members renewed for 2021.
We still want to continue this type of incentive but have now decided to do this retrospectively if profits from the previous year allow us to do so. The method will be a discount on the following year’s membership fees. We did this for 2022, 2023 and 2024 and will do so again for 2025.
In 2023/24 the junior section made a profit of £1600 so we do have the funds to do it this year.
The races which had been selected in 2024 were the six Peco Races (£1.50 per race for the races in January(2), February, November and December(2)), the Peco relays (£0.50) in March, the Eccup Junior Races (£4), the Wetherby junior race (£3) and the Abbey Dash junior race (£3), a total value of £18 if running all of them. Note also that entry fees for the Golden Acre Relay 2024 were paid by the club at time of entry, so those members who took part in all 11 will have had “free” entries worth £20.50
Anyone running in the “C” group has extra potential for discounts. They also take into account Leeds 5k, Yorks XCetc
These discounts are capped
– firstly to a maximum of 50% of the membership fee paid in 2024. e.g. if someone was a full member for the full year in 2024 (£40), the maximum discount received would be £20. If they had joined in April 2024 (£30), the maximum would be £15. If they’d joined as a limited training member for the full year (£20); the maximum discount would be £10
– secondly to a maximum of 50% of the fee they are paying in 2025 e,g, if they’d been a full member for the full year in 2024 (£40) but were changing to be a limited training member in 2025 (£20) the maximum discount would be £10
– the maximum percentage for the “C” group is 60% so potentially a “C” group member could be paying £16 plus their EA fee rather than £40 plus their EA fee, which is, coincidentally, the same price as adult membership
Membership fees are now due. Please look in the table below.
- for full membership (code J), please pay £40 (plus £22 if you’re renewing your EA now – code JF) less any discounts
- for limited training membership (code JL), please pay £20 (plus £22 if you’re renewing your EA now – code JLF) less any discounts
- for social membership (code JS), please pay £5 (no discounts)
Please pay to “VSAC Membership” Account number 72143878 Sort code 53-70-00. Please put your name in the reference. (Note that if your bank performs payee name checks, then the account name above may come up as “VALLEY STRIDERS ATHLETICS CLUB”.)
Please email juniors@valleystriders.org.uk if
- you wish to change or discuss your child’s membership category (e.g. if you want to consider changing from J to JL or vice versa) – we will re-quote and let you know the implications
- or you wish to renew but have difficulty paying by this deadline – we will discuss options
- or you are undecided about renewing (in which case we will hold open your child’s membership and Facebook access till 31 March but your child won’t be able to come to training)
- or you wish to resign from the club – we will wish your child well for the future
Thank you!
Junior Membership Fees 2025 £ to pay
This just shows amount to pay.If you want to know how this was calculated then look at the Summary table and/or the Full Table.
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The table below shows
- name
- membership category for 2024
- fees paid in 2024 (not including EA)
- suggested membership category for 2025
- TOTAL to pay for 2025, being
- basic fee for 2025
- plus E A affiliation fee for 2025 (if applicable … and optional to pay now for some)
- minus race discount
Junior Membership Discounts and Fee to Pay 2025 Summary
The column on the far right is the amount to pay.This is calculated from the membership category we have suggested for you and the discount you have been awarded for running races in 2024
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Junior Membership Discounts and Fee to Pay 2025 Full Table
The amount to pay has been calculated from the membership category we have suggested for you and the discount you have been awarded for running races in 2024This table shows all the races you’ve run and the full calculations.
For “C” group, if you ran some races in 2024 that aren’t listed in the table please email us and we’ll recalculate!
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