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Important membership Renewal News

I have been missing a little recently, apologies for this but I have been in London visiting my daughter in Hospital and I will be there again Wednesday to Friday this week. Unfortunately due to the unforeseen circumstances with the previous Secretary, we haven’t had time to train a back for myself and I have recently had other priorities. So, please contact me Monday and Tuesday Evening this week and next weekend Saturday and Sunday evening. I should be available then until evening of 28th February. Renewals and New Membership will then be closed completely until January 2026 with no exceptions. I will endeavour to get everyone possible through before now and the 28th, and be assured I am talking to clubmate to try and make it a lot less troublesome to renew next year, now we are all aligned in January/February.

Andy

Secretary

KINGSTANDING BOTTOM POOL

The bottom pool at Kingstanding will be closed from midnight on 1st February 2025 until further notice please do not fish the bottom pool after this date

Cuttle Brook

We have been negotiating over the last month with Mr Lucas the farmer at Cuttlebrook about regaining access to the stretch of river. His main concerns were that he felt that he never knew who was down the river and whether they were members of the club or not, so we were prepared to offer him a gate access system the same as Catton, some more lease money and more bailiff policing, However, before we could offer this to him, he told us that he has decided to run his own syndicate down the river because he feels he can keep control of who is down there. So there are no hard feelings towards Mr Lucas, we wish him good luck with his new venture. In fact if you would like to enquire about his syndicate membership please contact: Will Lucas on 07790 602023. He has agreed that we can keep contacting him every year in case anything changes.

We are now accepting new members please go to the membership page and/or CLICK ON  “BUY A MEMBERSHIP” and assure that the photo you need to upload is a passport style or computer selfie head and shoulders picture, because if you upload a bad picture you cannot change it afterwards, only the secretary can change the photograph once uploaded (data protection reasons). Also ensure the address and postcode are complete, otherwise you will not receive your ID card and your membership will be invalid. Also there may be a delay in the cards arriving due to the addition this year of a rule book to your membership welcome pack, you will receive an ID card, a gate key and an association rule book. So please be patient and you can use your welcome email/receipt of payment as your permit until everything arrives, just show it to the bailiff.

Please be aware that your ID card will take approximately 2 weeks to arrive through the post along with your gate key, if you want to go fishing please use your email receipt/confirmation as your permit until your card arrives. Also if you need a gate key before yours arrives, local tackle shops sell them for £5, please take along your email receipt/Confirmation to buy one, a spare is always useful anyway.

All new members please read the general club rules on the website before starting to fish, but also visit the water page that you want to fish and read the write up as there may be more specific water rules on that page, also read the local water rules which are on notice boards at the venues

MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS

Notice to all members – PLEASE RENEW AFTER YOUR EXPIRY DATE, AS THERE IS A GLITCH IN THE REMINDERS FROM CLUBMATE PLEASE IGNORE THE REMINDERS AND RENEW AFTER YOUR EXPIRY.

Renewal of membership is now open and will close after the 28th February 2025, this will be a strict rule this year so we can bring everyone into line, so if you do not renew or join before that date you will lose your membership. Also there may be a delay in the cards arriving due to the addition this year of a rule book to your membership renewal pack, you will receive your ID card, and an association rule book. So please be patient and you can use your email receipt of payment as your permit until everything arrives, just show it to the bailiff.

CANAL

The BMAA no longer has the fishing rights on the canal so you can no longer fish the canal from 1st November 2025 using your BMAA ticket. If you wish to fish the canal please get in touch with the canal and rivers trust and purchase a ticket from them.

RENEWING YOUR MEMBERSHIP

When renewing your membership this year, please do the following:

1. Go to the website www.burtonmutual.co.uk and stay on the welcome/home page.
2. Look to the top right hand corner of the page for a section called “Membership and Tickets” click here and a drop down list will say ” Membership, Tickets and Fly fishing”, click on “membership”.
3. The next page will have a blue box called “log in and Renew”, click on here.
4. Log in to your own home page. if you cannot remember your password please click on “forgotten password” and an email will be sent you with a link and instructions, this email may well end up in your “spam or Junk mail” Folder on your email system, this is because it is an automated email and email systems see automated emails normally as Spam/Junk, however this one isn’t.
5. Once Logged in, you should have your own home page where you can check/change anything on your profile, please check this for changes of Address, email address or phone number etc.
6. Also on your home page you should have the option to renew your membership, as long as you are within 10 days of your expiry date. If it isn’t there please check your expiry date.
7. Follow the instructions to complete the renewal, right through to the payment where if you have completed it you should get a green  “Success” box appear with a large tick in it, this tells you, you have completed your renewal.

Secretary

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