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Lifetime membership is a one-off £5. Membership gives you voting rights in how the charity is run.
After you've joined and been inducted, you can access the space with a £5 monthly subscription. We also suggest a £15 donation, which is eligible for Gift Aid, although you are welcome to donate more or less if you prefer. Your subscription can be cancelled or restarted at any time without needing to repay the original £5 membership fee.
If you're a UK taxpayer, your donations are eligible for Gift Aid, which adds 25% at no cost to you. Your donations pay the bills: rent, heating (the computer lab costs about 90p an hour to heat from cold!), insurance, consumables and new equipment.
Membership is 18+ only. Families are welcome on site as long as children are supervised. {% endcapture %} {% include section.html content=membership_content %}
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- 24/7 access to the space - with some restrictions on noisy tools late in the day, out of respect for our neighbours
- Use of the wood workshop, metal workshop, laser cutting room, 3D printers, computer lab, electronics workbench, textiles equipment and social space
- Free internet access while you're on site
- Free or discounted software for space machines, including LightBurn, VCarve Pro, AutoCAD and SolidWorks
- A say in how the space is run and what tools we buy next
- A community of makers happy to share what they know {: .tidy}
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