Joining NLSA

How to sail with us

To sail with the NLSA, you must be aged 8 or over and:

have successfully completed a practical dinghy course at the required level or higher, e.g. RYA National Sailing Scheme Level 2, RYA Youth Sailing Start Sailing Stage 3 or Racing Red, or NSSA Gold Award, or equivalent, or
have the windsurfing equivalent of the above, or
have been assessed by the Centre sailing staff (or their nominee) as competent to sail a simple course, or
if 17 or under and not qualified to be a member in your own right, have a parent or guardian who is a member and sail only in their care and in the same boat as them.

You can then join and sail at Stoke Newington and Brightlingsea.

Subscription Periods

Subscriptions run from 1 April to 31 March of the following year.

New members joining January to September pay a fullsubscription running to 31 March of the following Year. An additional payment will be due from those joining January to March if the subscription subsequently rises from 1 April.

New members joining October to December pay a half subscription running to 31 March of the following year

Membership Rates

A.	Adults, not from Multi-Member Households	£125.00
B.	Young persons, aged from 8 to 17 years old, not from Multi-Member Households	£62.50
C.	Adults from Multi-Member Households	£115.00
D.	Young persons, aged from 8 to 17 years old, from Multi-Member Households	£52.50
E.	Concessionary Members	£93.00
F	Young persons, aged from 8 to 17 years old, not qualified to join as members in their own right, if their parent or guardian is a member.	£41.50

Application Forms

Membership Application Form

Membership Renewal Form

Multiple Members from the same Household

Where there are multiple qualified members from the same household, there is a reduced fee for the

multiple members.

When an additional qualified member joins the Association, where previously there has only been a single

member from that household, the fee for the additional member shall be the additional amount to bring the

total up to what it would have been had both members paid their appropriate multiple member fee.

Concessionary Membership Rates

NLSA offers Concessiomary rates to Adults who meet the same conditions that would apply if they were

applying for a Hackney Community Leisure card. Proof that a reduction is appropriate is required, as

follows:

(a) For those aged 60 and above, a bus pass, a pension book, a birth certificate or a passport.

(b) For full-time students and trainees on government schemes, a student card, or a letter on

headed paper from the college, university or scheme.

working families tax credit, housing benefit or council tax benefit letter.

(d) For disabled people, an incapacity benefit (higher rate), disability working or severe disability

living allowance book.

For more information, to arrange an assessment, or for an application form to join,
contact the NLSA