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Membership

Membership of Women’s Aid East and Midlothian demonstrates your support of a local charity and provides a strong collective voice on the issues that concern us most in our work to end domestic abuse and all forms of violence against women. Membership is free but if you’d like to make a one off or monthly donation to support our work you can do that here via JustGiving.
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We promise your donation goes to make a direct difference to the women, children and young people we support. 

Benefits of Membership

  • Membership pack
  • Updates and newsletters providing information on our work.
  • Opportunities to input into campaigns, informed by the experience and needs of survivors.
  • Early access to events run by Women’s Aid East and Midlothian

Membership Categories

We have different membership categories – please take a look below.

Ordinary Membership

Women aged 16 years and over living in East Lothian and Midlothian.

Associate Membership

Organisation representatives. Anyone aged over 16 living within East Lothian or Midlothian.

Junior Membership

Anyone aged 12-15 years.

Which membership is right for you?

Ordinary members have the right to attend the Annual General Meetings and have powers under the organisation Articles of Association and Companies Act, specifically Ordinary Members can elect people to serve as Directors and take decisions in relation to changes to the articles themselves.

Ordinary members are added to our membership mailing list for regular updates on service activity and events. 

Qualifications:

  • Any woman aged 16 years or over and resident in East Lothian or Midlothian that support the aims and activities of the organisation

Associate and Junior members are invited to attend the Annual General Meetings but have no voting rights. Associate and Junior members are added to our membership mailing list for regular updates on service activity and events.

Qualifications:

  • Any individual aged 16 years or over and resident outwith East Lothian or Midlothian that supports the aims and activities of the organisation
  • Any individual aged 16 years or over representing an organisation that is based within East Lothian or Midlothian that supports the aims and activities of the organisation

Anyone aged 12-15 years.

Qualifications:

  • Any individual aged between 12 and 15 years that supports the aims and activities of the company.

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Next steps

Thank you for your application! Our office manager will be in touch when your request has been approved.  Approval takes place at WAEML board meetings so you should hear within two months of your application.

Membership renewal

Membership automatically renews each year.  If you wish to end membership or need to amend your details at any time please contact the Office Manager by email at info@womensaideml.org.  If you end your membership this is processed with immediate effect. 

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0131 561 5800

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