Membership

Details

Come along for a few runs and see if the club is right for you before you decide to join. Annual membership is £15 (2025-26) for adults.

If you join between 1 Jan 2025 & 31 March 2025 your membership will run all the way through to 31 March 2026.

When you are ready to join please complete the on line membership form

** New - Membership Application / Renewal Online Form

If you are unable to complete the on-line form please get in touch with us and we can take your details another way.

Benefits

As well as running with like minded people in a beautiful part of the country, membership also gives you

Regular combined runs and social events
Competition in the club championships
Third party insurance cover when running with the club

Affiliation

We decided not to renew our club affiliation & individual athlete registration to England Athletics (EA) from 1 April 2023. Instead we affiliated to the Association of Running Clubs whose structure and approach better matches our club. The Association of Running Clubs (ARC) now provides our third party liability insurance in place of England Athletics. Affiliation to the Association of Running Clubs saves us money and we have reduced our membership fee.

When entering England Athletics licenced races as a member of Ashbourne RC you now have to enter as non-affiliated and pay the £2 surcharge. Insurance cover for races is not connected to your affiliation status as the race licence provides the insurance cover to all entrants whether affiliated, or not affiliated, or not even a member of a running club.

The Association of Running Clubs also issues race permits and Ashbourne RC members get the £2 reduction on ARC permitted races. However the vast majority of races are EA rather than ARC.

Run Britain and Power of 10 collect race stats from races with England Athletics (& the other national bodies within UKA) licences and you don't have to be a registered athlete at an England Athletics affiliated club for this to happen or continue.

Junior Members

Young persons from age 7 to 17 year are most welcome as Junior Members of ARC.

Junior members under 11 can attend our seasonal junior running sessions on the recreation ground.

Junior members aged 11 and over can run with their parent or guardian on our Thursday 5k (Social Run Group) club run.

Junior members aged 15 and over may run with their parent or guardian on all our club runs.

Whilst every effort will be made to ensure the safety of our Junior Members, the club cannot be held responsible for their safety, and the parent / guardian’s acknowledgement of this is required by signing the membership form.