Annual membership is paid on a calendar year basis with renewal for existing members falling due at the start of the year.  Please pay your subscriptions on or before Friday 27th January  (or for new joiners after your third rehearsal if later).

 

1. Concessions

We encourage all members who can afford it to pay the full subscription rates.  A concessionary rate is available for those of limited means[1] who would find the full rates unaffordable.  The committee is happy to consider any cases of hardship.

 

 

1. Ways in which you can pay

On-line payment – our preferred method for the payment of your subscription is on-line:

• Bank name:                        Barclays Bank plc

• Bank sort code:                 20-32-06

• Bank account number:    30626511

• Bank account name:        City Chorus

• Reference:                         Please show your name, so we know that it is you who made the payment

 

Once you have set up your payment please email finance@londoncitychorus.com confirming the amount and dates of payment.  

 

Other methods of payment:

• Debit Card

• Cash

• Cheque – if you do need to pay by cheque  then please make it payable to “City Chorus”

 

 

1. Spreading the payment into three instalments

Choir members who want to commit to join for the full year may spread the cost of a year’s membership into three payments:

• Full members may split the £237 cost for the year into three payments of £79 

• Concessionary members may split the £171 cost for the year into three payments of £57.

If you want to pay in this way, please do this on-line (bank details shown above) showing your name on the on-line payment, and please schedule the payments on 17th January, 7th February and 7th March.

Once you have set up the three payments please email the Treasurer confirming the amounts and dates of payment.

 

 

1. Contact details

The Choir’s Treasurer is Angus Bantock.You can contact him at finance@londoncitychorus.com or in the break at rehearsals.

 

 

1. Requirement to purchase concert tickets

Each member of the choir is required to purchase two tickets for each concert (at £10 each).  We keep the process simple by including the amount for tickets in the amount which you pay when you pay your subscription.  So the cost of these tickets is included in the amounts payable which we have shown overleaf. 

 

We will hand you your tickets two or three weeks before each concert.  Of course we hope that you will buy more than two tickets for each concert, and encourage you to sell as many tickets as you can to friends, family and colleagues.

 

 

1. Joiners in the Summer and Autumn terms

Annual subscriptions are paid on a calendar year basis.  Members who join the City Chorus, paying for a full year in advance benefit from a lower subscription. 

 

To ensure that new joiners in the Summer and Autumn terms are treated fairly, joiners in the Summer term also benefit from the lower charges if they commit to join for two terms. 

 

Those who joined in the Autumn 2022 term (but not earlier in that year) can also benefit from a rebate of £24 for full members (£12 for concessionary members) against your 2023 subscription if you re-join for the full 2023 year.

 

 

1. Gift Aid

The choir is able to reclaim 25p of tax on every £1 of subscriptions, for those members who have signed a Gift Aid form.  To ensure that our records are up to date, when you pay your subscription could you provide the following:

• Confirm whether you are tax paying in the current tax year, and conform to the statement that “I am a UK taxpayer and understand that if I pay less Income Tax and/or Capital Gains Tax in the current tax year than the amount of Gift Aid claimed on all my donations it is my responsibility to pay any difference”

• Provide your new address if you have moved house since you signed a gift aid form

 

 

 

Angus Bantock

Treasurer

December 2022

 

[1]      May include those in low paid jobs at the start of their working lives, those not in work, or those on means tested benefits