Join Us

Join or renew via Parish Chest (the commercial wing of Family History Federation)
The quickest way is to join online and pay by credit card
on the website of our trusted parther: Parish Chest.

 

The link will take you directly to the page with all the W&DFHS subscription options.
Annual membership runs from 1 June to 31 May. Anyone joining the Society after 31 March, and paying the relevant subscription on joining, shall be deemed to have paid for membership up to 31 May the following year.
The subscription rates are

  • Individual  £12.00
  • Joint (2 people at same address)  £14.00
  • Senior (age 60 and over)  £10.00
  • Overseas (surface mail)  £17.00
  • Overseas (air mail)  £20.00

You can use Parish Chest for paying for a new subscription, or for renewing if you are an existing member. Please indicate your membership number if it is a renewal in the notes field.

If you are a UK tax-payer you can indicate if you wish to Gift Aid your subscrition in the notes field.

Postal Application

  1. Print off the Subcription and Renewal Form 
  2. Complete the form. It will help the Society if you agree that your subscription can be treated as a Gift Aid donation. All members who pay Income or Capital Gains Tax pay their subscriptions out of taxed income. As a registered charity, the Society can claim back an amount equal to the tax paid on those subscriptions. It will greatly help the Society if you would sign the Gift Aid declaration on the Application Form.
  3. List in the Members’ Interests Section any research interests that you have.
  4. Please sign the Data Protection authorisation at the bottom of the form.
  5. Enclose a cheque, (sterling only), postal and money orders payable to:
    Wakefield & District Family History Society.
  6. Post to the Membership Secretary; Debbie Staynes, 1, The Bungalows, Hill Head, Halifax Road, Dewsbury, WF13 4JD