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It has been agreed by GL meetings that GL should become a subscription based organisation. One reason for becoming subscription based is that we have minimal funds and are dependant on members donations for income. We don´t ask for or get any money from the Green Party because we are not subsection of it, but an organisation of GP members who wish to influence all its policies in a certain direction and it follows, that GL has some disagreements with some parts of existing GP policies and/or their emphasis relative to one another. If we were party funded our independence in this respect could be compromised.

The decision to initiate GL subscriptions is also influenced by a degree of mystification as to why some people who have joined the GL mailing lists did so. This is especially so since some of the statements of principles that GL supports are now easily publicly accessible on this website,. If someone holds the perfectly respectable belief that Green politics has in some way totally superceded older left/right political divisions and that there is therefore no need for GL, then surely a GL list is not the place to argue this.

So it is hoped that a subscription might give slightly more political coherence to GL membership as well as providing a modest income for things like a banner and some leaflets and maybe even the little enamel badges that the more ambitious GL steering committee members dream about.

The Green Left Committee has now agreed to do this with a sliding scale of subscriptions due annually at the start of October then in January 2013, naturally additional donations from those who can afford them would be welcomed.

INCOME pa ANNUAL SUB
under £10,000*(students & unemployed) :£7.50

£15-20,000: £15.00

£20-25,000: £20.00

£25-30,000: £25.00

£30-40,000: £30.00

£40-50,000: £35.00

£50,000+: £45.00

• With the proviso that the committee can reserve the right to waive or reduce fees in individual cases due to hardship etc.
• Proposal: that the above come into effect from 1/1/2012, members paying at the new rates from now could have membership until 31/12/2012.
• Subscriptions at the old rate would now only be valid until 31/12/2011.
• This constitutes a free offer to new members of approx 3 months free membership.
• Members to be encouraged to pay direct debit or standing. Co-Convenor preparing form.

If you wish to join GL send a cheque to:

Peter Murry (Acting GL Treasurer)

18a Oxgate Gardens

London NW2 6EB

Please also complete and send the following with your cheque

NAME

Address

GREEN PARTY MEMBERSHIP (name of Party)

Email

PHONE/s

Alternatively payments cam be made directly into the GL bank account (details below):

acc name GREEN LEFT

Co-operative bank, PO Box 250 , Delf House, Southway, SKELMERSDALE WN8 6WT

sort code 089299

acc 65284751

On receipt of your subscription the Treasurer will send you an email confirming your membership.