Yearly Membership Fees $20.00 - Single Adult (16yrs +) $35.00 - Family (2 adults + children) $60.00 - Organisations (*conditions apply see below) * Membership issued to president, manager or other nominated representative of the organisation. Visits by the organisation to the site must include a representative who has completed site induction. That person will ensure that the rest of group is instructed prior to commencing activities. * New memberships paid between 1 Jan & 31 Dec of each year are pro-rata quarterly (eg: Joining Jan-Mar 100%, Apr-Jun 75%, Jul-Sept 50%, Oct-Dec 25%) and renewable for the next 12 months at the AGM in Dec of each year.

Becoming a member of Ballina Community Gardens is easy!

Existing Members - Renewals:

Ongoing annual membership renewals will be due at the AGM held the first week of December of each year and cover the fees for the next calendar year, example membership fees for 2012 will be due at the AGM in  Dec 2011.

For those existing members who joined in 2010 your existing memberships will carry you through until the 2012 calendar year  membership is due (in Dec 2011), so you will receive a few months free membership (depending on when you were due for renewal) due to your patience with us getting onto site.

The new fee structure as agreed by committee at the meeting of 8 June 2011 will come into place for existing members for the 2012 calendar year. 

New Members - How to Join:

- Fees for new members who join between our special promotion day on 19 June 2011 and 31 Dec 2011 will have the  following pro-rata rates applied to the above yearly membership fees: 19 Jun-Sept (50%) & Oct-Dec (25%). 

- Come along to any site function or advertised public day shown on the calendar and fill in your application form.  

- Download and complete the Applicant Section on the Application for Membership Form , post this and your cheque to The Secretary, Ballina Community Gardens, PO Box 858, Ballina NSW 2478

As other methods become available to pay your membership fee we will update this page.

Who should Join?

We require all types of people to be members of our garden.

The garden will have a mix of 'gardens' to suit all types of user.  You do not need to have an individual allotment (plot), you may wish to potter around in the communal (shared) or access gardens, growing to help others, growing to teach children or just growing for the joy of it.  For those of you out there with the dreaded 'black thumb' you don't need to grow anything at all! Perhaps your skills are fund raising, secretarial, teaching, pure labouring, building things or just take pleasure in assisting others and want to support a worthwhile community project?   You may wish to 'learn' more about composting or worm farming, eventually all this and more will form part of the garden's role.

No matter what kind of person you are there is a place for you with the BCG. There are very few groups that have the potential to cater to all ages and abilities, from the very young learning to plant their first 'magic bean'. to the very old with years of cultivation, life and other experience behind them. 

Membership will keep you informed of what is going on in the early development stages, and place you on the ground floor of this exciting new project.

Membership entitles you to have input and to have a say in these formative days on how the garden runs. You may join or vote for the committee.

Membership entitles you to join one or more of the development PODS to get actively involved in any area that interests you.

You will need to be a member to have an individual allotment if these are developed.

Above all Membership will allow you to enlarge your circle of friends, meet new people and get some 'fresh air' while you do it!