We’re delighted to be able to confirm that rolling membership has now gone live. This means that people joining or renewing part-way through the season will no longer have to pay a full year’s subscription for membership that extends only to the end of August. Instead, joiners and renewers will now receive a full year’s worth of benefits from the beginning of the month in which they subscribe – benefits that include the ECF’s magazine ChessMoves delivered to your inbox every month, access to JustGo Rewards offering thousands of discounts from well-known online and high street outlets, and discounts from Chess & Bridge on a comprehensive range of chess products.
Please note the following —
- There will be no change to the Game Fee arrangements in events requiring only Bronze membership (local leagues and club internal events) – so under rolling membership people joining or renewing before the end of a league season will still in effect be buying the right to have their league games rated for that same season (and not for part of the following season as well).
- We have put in place a manual workaround for people who want to upgrade their membership during the season as the membership system does not currently have the functionality to allow this to be done automatically. The way the system will work is that in the first instance you will need to pay the full membership fee for the new membership level, following which you will get a refund within the next one or two working days for the unspent portion of your old membership level.
Please also click here to see the examples and exceptions page – https://www.englishchess.org.uk/rolling-membership-examples-and-exceptions/