Membership Help Page

For any support with your Membership, feel free to contact us here:

Subscription

Your subscription will start on the day your Membership is opened.

Your subscription will run for 12 months from the day of account opening. For example, should your account be opened on the 3rd of March, your subscription year will run from the 3rd of March through until the 2nd of March of the following calendar year.

You'll be invoiced every year on the anniversary of your subscription with your first invoice on the day of Membership opening.

Each invoice will be named by the year in which you're being invoiced.

Your subscription will continue until indefinitely either party; the Member, or the STLD Committee close the Membership.

Each year, your Membership subscription will renew at the applicable current Membership rate.

Membership Cancellation/Termination

Your Membership will presume to renew annually until either cancelled by the Member by request or by the decision of STLD Committee to terminate the Membership.

Your Membership will not be cancelled unless your request is confirmed by a member of STLD Committee.

Your Membership may be terminated if your Membership account lapses in payment or if you breach the Society's Constitution.

Changing your membership level

Your Membership will presume to renew at the same rate as a previous membership year, or that of the rate you signed up at.

To change your membership rate, please contact our Membership team on our contact page, here.

At any time of membership change, your rate change will take affect from your next renewal date, unless backdated at the discretion of Committee.

Membership cannot be backdated to a discounted rate, retrospectively beyond a recent payment.

All membership rate changes are only at the approval of Committee.

Student Membership tiering

Our Student Membership comprises of five stages:

1. Free membership.
2. Graduate [Year 1].
3. Graduate [Year 2].
4. Graduate [Year 3].
5. Full Membership.

Students typically join us at one of two stages. Most will fall into the first instance where they will become members during their studies, benefiting from FREE membership. Upon joining, we request their expected graduation date. Using this information, we assess their eligibility for student membership upon each annual renewal. If the student remains in full-time study of lighting, we renew their membership Free of Charge.

If, at the time of renewal, the student member has completed their studies and graduated, we transition them to the first year of our Graduate Membership. Subsequently, at each annual renewal, they progress through the sequential tiers of Graduate pricing based on the number of years since their graduating year. This progression continues until three years post-graduation, at which point they advance to the final stage of tiering and become Full Professional members.

The alternative instance for student enrollment occurs when they have already graduated but are within three years of their graduation date. In such cases, we enroll them at the corresponding Graduate tier, respecting their date of graduation for either of stage 2-4.

Direct Debit for Students

While student membership is FREE while the students are in full-time studies, we do promote them upon the completion of their studies to our Graduate Membership, starting at £15/year. To smooth our administration and allow us to facilitate free membership for students, we do ask for students to establish a Direct Debit early, at the time of signing up for student membership so that the mandate is then pre-existing with your bank for when you graduate.

Direct Debit also provides students with the enhanced protection of the Direct Debit guarantee.

Members with a Direct Debit will received three days advance notice of any intended charges allowing them opportunity to dispute.

Membership and your Direct Debit can be cancelled at any time, without equivocation.

You will not be charged until you have left your studies.

Charges operated upon the annual renewal of your Membership, not on the calendar of your graduation. For example, if you signed up for STLD membership in January, and you graduated in August, you would not renew and progress to Graduate membership until the January following your graduation in August. You would continue on FREE student membership for the interim period.

How to renew

Renewing early

Paying for Membership