Membership
In 2009, IDEA had developed so much that it became a membership organisation, and we would be very happy to welcome you as a member.
There are two ways to become a member of IDEA. Affiliate members are kept on our database and are given notice of all our events. You can become an affiliate member of IDEA simply by emailing us at email.idea@gmail.com and asking us to put your on our database.
Full membership carries with it a number of important perks, most notably access to the members' section of our website. In this section full members of IDEA will find all the previous issues of our newsletter 'Revelation' which first went to print in January 2009.
Full membership also entitles you to use our website as a place to advertise your interfaith or environmental activity. This advertisement will be on general display on our events page.
The main part of our members' section, though, is the section for interfaith and environmental resources. We rely on widely varied submissions from our members - prayers, articles, study sheets, news items... anything you think may be of value to others. If you are submitting anything to this section, please do bear in mind laws of copyright and source all your material. Please indicate if you would like your contribution to be saved as text (which can be copied and edited) or as a .pdf file (which can be saved or printed but not edited), and we will save it accordingly.
If you are not yet a member of IDEA, the membership for 2009 is only £10 for an individual and £15 for an organisation. If you join mid-year, you are free to adjust your membership fee accordingly although, since IDEA is entirely dependent upon donations, we do ask you to please be generous.
As well as access to the many resources mentioned above, full members also receive our newsletter every quarter and are entitled to reduced admission to all IDEA events in Dorset (an organisation membership covers two individuals for reduced entry). You will also be entitled to voting rights at our AGM which takes place at our annual conference.
To become a full member of IDEA, please send a cheque payable to 'Interfaith Dorset Education and Action' to IDEA, PO Box 8, Bournemouth, BH1 3PN, along with your name and contact details (including email if possible). To summarise, then, we have two types of membership with differing perks:
- Affiliate (free): Your name is put on our mailing list.
- Full (£10/£15): Access to all previous copies of our newsletter which is also sent to you every quarter, access to advertise your local events, access to our members' contributions of interfaith and environmental resources, reduced admission to IDEA events and voting rights at our AGM.