Our members are our greatest advocates, and provide vital financial support of our work as a Registered Charity.
As a member you receive:
- A quarterly magazine, English Dance & Song, providing news and reviews of what’s hot in the folk arts as well as news about the Society’s own activities.
- Folk Music Journal, the annual academic journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, highly valued by universities and libraries across the world, if you wish to receive it.
- Access to a members-only section of this website, where you can view or download the current edition of EDS as well as searching and viewing the current and selected past editions of FMJ.
- Public Liability Insurance: please read our PLI Guidance Notes for details. PLI is limited; our insurance may not cover your activities. Please contact our insurance brokers for more information.
- An expanding range of benefits, now including discounted access to valuable and relevant resources from People Dancing and Brass Bands England.
With the support of our members over the past decade, we have dramatically increased activities around learning, performance and artist support, and have developed Cecil Sharp House into a vibrant and creative arts centre.
How much does membership cost?
Standard membership
Individual £53
Joint £80
Student or age 18–25 £24
Please provide a photocopy of your student ID card, or your date of birth
Under 18 £24
Please provide your date of birth
Senior membership (over 65s)
Senior Individual £36
Please provide your date of birth
Senior Joint £53
One member should be over 65; please provide your date of birth
Life £478
Please provide your date of birth
Joint Life £678
One member should be over 65; please provide your date of birth
Join us now
You can join online now – or download a Word membership form or PDF membership form to complete and post to us.
Call us on +44 (0)20 7241 8956 for more information on membership.
Members who pay for their PPL licence through EFDSS can download TheMusicLicence terms and conditions here.
