Membership is available to anyone who is 18 or over unless they have an outstanding ban at the Hackspace.

Memberships are issued for named individuals only, we do not offer corporate, shared, or family memberships.

We are happy to accept members whose memberships are paid by a sponsoring organisation, but these memberships are still solely for the use of the named individual.

To end your membership, you need to:

• Inform the committee through our contact form.
• Cancel your standing order (if applicable).

You may wish to return your door card, however this is not required.

Your membership will expire exactly one month after your last payment was received. Please remember to take any project materials you have stored at Hackspace away with you.

The directors can terminate your membership if they decide your continued participation is harmful, or likely to be harmful, to Hackspace. This may be made as a result of:

• An investigation into formal complaints made against you.
• You failing to respond to multiple requests to settle a significant debt to Hackspace.
• Your membership payments having stopped.

See our Complaints procedures for how this termination will be handled.

By becoming a member of Bristol Hackspace you become a voting member of Bristol Open Technology Lab C.I.C., the incorporated entity that controls Hackspace. This gives you the legal right to vote at general meetings and other rights in accordance with our policies, for example putting forward or supporting purchase proposals.

As Bristol Open Technology Lab C.I.C. is a company limited by guarantee without share capital all members, and persons who have ceased to be a member within one year, carry a financial liability in the unlikely event the company is wound up due to insolvency. The amount of this liability is a maximum of £1 (one GBP) per member, if demanded by the administrator of Bristol Open Technology Lab C.I.C.

Bristol Open Technology Lab C.I.C. (encompassing Bristol Hackspace) strives to provide an inclusive space, forum, and community where everyone feels welcome, respected, and safe, regardless of their age, ethnicity, race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, or socio-economic background.

We will not tolerate harassment in any form. Harassment includes, but may not be limited to:

• Offensive comments related to gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, race, religion, or socio-economic background.
• Deliberate intimidation.
• Stalking or following.
• Inappropriate or unwanted physical contact.
• Unwelcome sexual attention.
• Inappropriate or unrequested photography or recording.
• Sustained or repeated disruption.
• Lack of respect for personal space.
• Any other action that makes someone uncomfortable.

We expect anyone asked to stop a harassing behaviour to do so immediately. Do not ever put your opinions or desires before the comfort of others.

If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, do not ignore it. If you can, challenge the behaviour directly. If you can not challenge the behaviour, please contact the Directors. If the offender is a Director, you can contact another Director directly.

The Hackspace does not have any car parking, however there is plenty of free on-street parking in the surrounding area.

The area in front of our roller shutter is reserved for loading or for working on a vehicle, as well as keeping access to the shutter clear. The rest of the building forecourt is let to other tenants of Meridian Studios. Please do not park your vehicle anywhere on the forecourt.

There is a secure bicycle storage facility behind the building. Please note that this space is provided to support people who want to cycle in, not as a storage opportunity for heaps of spare bikes (or anything else). Bike are stored at the Hackspace at your own risk.

Please don't park your bicycle in the building. It makes the Hackspace less safe and less accessible.

Hackspace tools must only be used in the Hackspace (or on the forecourt). You cannot take them away and you cannot use them anywhere else. This is a strict requirement imposed by our liability insurers.

Bristol Library of Things has locations in Kingswood and Brislington, and is worth a look if you need to borrow tools to use at home.

Consumables are common useful items, materials, and other supplies that hackspace aims to keep in stock for everyone's convenience.

Consumables are for the reasonable light use of all members in their projects. If you are using a large proportion of our stock of any item, you should consider buying it it yourself rather than depleting the Hackspace's communal supply. Common janitorial, maintenance, and PPE items are also classed as consumables.

If you spot that we are getting low on a consumable item, you can post an entry to this thread requesting replenishment and one of the committee will restock the item(s).

Any overstock of consumables are stored in the consumables cabinet in the corridor. Please check here before posting.

If you think a new item should be added to the consumables list, please request on the same thread and the committee will vote to get this consumable approved. A majority vote from the committee is required for this approval to pass.

The full consumables list can be found here.

This stuff is one of the things that makes Hackspace special, so we encourage everyone to donate useful quality surplus stuff for others to hack. That being said, there are rules around what we will accept. See our Donations policy for the full rules, but in summary:

We have dedicated areas for donations. If there is no room for your donation, or it doesn't fit on the shelves, please take it away again. You can offer it to other members via the forum instead.

Never leave donations anywhere else in the space, especially the Woodshop or Metalshop

We encourage donations of:

• Sorted common parts, hardware, components, and materials.
• Weird or interesting stuff.

We don't want:

• Junk, cheap consumer electronics, scrap materials, etc.
• Tubs of unsorted parts, hardware, or components.
• Stuff we already have lots of.
• Printers. Seriously, no printers.

Sometimes members wish to donate a tool to the hackspace for other members to use. Donating a tool for general use requires prior approval through our proposals process. Do not 'donate' your surplus tools to Hackspace without raising a proposal first to see if we actually want them.