Thank you for your interest in applying for BMC Youth Club Affiliation.
Please complete and submit this form, and then submit the required documentation to clubs@thebmc.co.uk.
If you have any questions please do contact us via clubs@thebmc.co.uk.
This includes all coaches, instructors, leaders, committee members and all other volunteers.
Your Annual Subscription Fee (i.e. the amount each member pays each year to be a member of the club) should be sufficient to cover the cost of BMC affiliation fees plus the running costs of the club. You may charge weekly / sessional fees on top of this fee, but that should not be included here.
This may be restrictions by age, such as 14-18-year olds only, or female only, or that entry to the competition squad is by selection only.
Not sure about the Areas? Check out the map by clicking the drop-down option on community.thebmc.co.uk
Contact details for the ‘Main Club Contact’ - this is the club member who the BMC will contact regarding its future BMC membership returns, and other club development support.
Please detail where your club meets:
This will be used to “locate” your club on the BMC club mapping tool - thebmc.co.uk/find-a-club
If you use more than one location then please choose the main centre.
* if applicable (see section 5)
** for all coaches, instructors, leaders in regulated activity including the Safeguarding Officer
***not required for newly formed clubs under 12 months old
The BMC is committed to the protection of data. The data that you provide to us about your club and its members will only be used by the BMC for membership affiliation and for member communications.
www.thebmc.co.uk/privacy
Each club is required to pay a fee upon applying to be affiliated to the BMC. The minimum number of members that a club can have is 10, therefore the Youth Club Membership (for 2024) is £100 (equivalent to the first 10 under-18-year-old members).
The payment to cover the membership fees for the remainder of your members is due upon confirmation of your affiliation. Additional members under the age of 18 will pay £10 per person and members over the age of 18 will pay the fees as detailed at www.thebmc.co.uk/club-membership-fees
If your club is unsuccessful in its application the initial £100 will be returned.
One of the benefits of affiliation is that the BMC promotes affiliated clubs so that potential new members can search for and contact the club directly. As an affiliated club you can be included on our searchable Club List and searchable Map, which appear in the public domain on the BMC website. The Club List can be viewed at www.thebmc.co.uk/organisations/clubs, and the Map can be viewed at thebmc.co.uk/find-a-club. The email and telephone details for the Main Club Contact (section 3) and the location as identified in section 4 are the default data used for these listings.
The club agrees to abide by the rules of the BMC contained or referred to in the BMC Articles of Association, (accessible on the BMC website). In the event of the BMC being wound up whilst the club is affiliated or within one year of it ceasing to be affiliated the club agrees to contribute a sum not exceeding £1 for every member of the Club as recorded in the last preceding certificate of the number of members supplied to the BMC.
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You will be contacted within four weeks of the receipt of your completed application with confirmation of the outcome of your application.
Please note: the club will only become an affiliated club and benefit from the range of affiliation benefits, including access to the BMC Combined Liability Insurance benefit, when its application has been formally approved via confirmation email and all member details have been submitted to the BMC via MSO and payment for all members has been received by the BMC.
