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| - | ====== Membership Policy ====== | + | ====== |
| ==== Who Can Be a Member? ==== | ==== Who Can Be a Member? ==== | ||
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| Bristol Hackspace aims to be accessible to as many people as possible, including those with reduced or irregular incomes. If you need to discuss the affordability of membership, please get in touch. | Bristol Hackspace aims to be accessible to as many people as possible, including those with reduced or irregular incomes. If you need to discuss the affordability of membership, please get in touch. | ||
| - | Your monthly membership fee, and any additional donation recieved as part of your regular monthly payment, is treated as unrestricted funds and used towards the charitable aims of Bristol Open Technology Lab CIO, which include the provision, upkeep, and improvement of the Hackspace and it's equipment. | + | Your monthly membership fee, and any additional donation recieved as part of your regular monthly payment, is treated as unrestricted funds and used towards the charitable aims of Bristol Open Technology Lab, which include the provision, upkeep, and improvement of the Hackspace and it's equipment. |
| As a member of Bristol Hackspace, we also ask that you donate some of your time towards the upkeep and improvement of the Space, proportionate to your use. This community involvement is how we are able to keep our suggested donation low. | As a member of Bristol Hackspace, we also ask that you donate some of your time towards the upkeep and improvement of the Space, proportionate to your use. This community involvement is how we are able to keep our suggested donation low. | ||
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| ==== Members’ Rights and Liability ==== | ==== Members’ Rights and Liability ==== | ||
| - | By becoming a member of Bristol Hackspace you become a voting member of Bristol Open Technology Lab CIO, 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. | + | By becoming a member of Bristol Hackspace you become a voting member of Bristol Open Technology Lab, 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. |
| In the unlikely event the organisation is wound up due to insolvency, members are not personally liable for any outstanding debt Bristol Open Technology Lab may have. | In the unlikely event the organisation is wound up due to insolvency, members are not personally liable for any outstanding debt Bristol Open Technology Lab may have. | ||