How to Join

Membership is coordinated within each State and Territory and application forms are available from the local Branch or

To join AFUW-Q Inc. for a printable application form or for a copy which can be filled in and submitted electronically.

*** Join now for membership which will be valid until 30 June 2009 *** When you have completed the form, please post it with payment, or confirmation number if you paid by direct debit, to AFUW-Q, PO Box 6345, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

The Committee meets on the 2nd Wednesday of the months of February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October and November. It considers applications for membership received by the Monday prior to each meeting. Applications received after that date are considered at the following meeting.

If you are already a member, to renew your membership When you have completed the form, please post it with payment, or confirmation number if you paid by direct debit, to AFUW-Q, PO Box 6345, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia

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If you are interested in joining AFUW [the national association], please contact the Secretary or President of the state Executive or Branch in your state.

You may wish to attend a few local meetings before joining. There you will meet women of various ages and interests working together to increase the opportunities in education for women and girls, to promote peace and reconciliation, to develop friendships across cultural barriers, and to work together to address community and national problems.

Members are requested to complete a form for the National Register (available from State branches) so that AFUW can identify personal expertise and interests when problems are being addressed or information is being sought on a particular issue. All information provided for the Register is secure and for the exclusive reference of AFUW, as noted in the rules below.

Brochure

For more information about AFUW-Q, download the 2 page Brochure  Print it out & fold into 3.

How Long Have You Been a Member?

AFUW-Q values your membership of AFUW-Q, another AFUW STA or another IFUW country, and would like to recognise it.

Questionnaire

 Rules

Governing access to and distribution of The National Register of Members

1. The National Registrar is responsible to Federal Council through the President. To ensure continuity and to make provision for an emergency arising from her absence, the Registrar may select and train another member as an understudy Registrar.
2. There shall be only one National Register and this will be held by the Registrar and be entirely her responsibility. The Register will contain entries for all individual members of the State and Territory Association members of the Federation. No other supplementary Register may be compiled or held by any other office bearer or member.
3. The Registrar will provide the national Publications Editor with mailing addresses as required. She will also provide such other mailing information requested by the National President from time to time.
4. The Registrar will provide one copy of the master Register, updated regularly, to
   1. the Federation’s Honorary Secretary, for the exclusive use of the national office bearers in the course of their official business for AFUW and
   2. The Public Officer, to satisfy the legal requirements of incorporation.
5. All enquiries, including those from the IFUW Exec Sec, requesting access to information held in the AFUW National Register must be submitted in writing to the Honorary Secretary at the Federation’s official postal address.
6. Each enquiry will be considered by the President or her delegate. If authorised, the enquiry will be forwarded by the Honorary Secretary to the Registrar for her attention. The resultant answer will be forwarded as an official reply from the Honorary Secretary.
7. If an enquiry is rejected, the Honorary Secretary will inform the enquirer of this outcome, together with the reasons expressed in terms of Federation policy regarding access.
8. General policy covering access and distribution is as follows:
   1. Information held in the Register will never be available to mail-order or commercial mailing database enquirers.
   2. Each Calendar year Presidents of each State/Territory Association member will be provided, on request, with a complete listing of that Association’s entries.
   3. An individual member of a member Association may access her own entry data by requesting it from the resident of her State or Territory Association. The member should then notify the Federation Honorary Secretary of any required changes, which will be forwarded to the Registrar.
   4. No member information will be released to a non-member without her written consent.
   5. Any office bearer in receipt of a part or whole of the national Register will be required to sign an undertaking that the information will not be released other than as is specified in these guidelines and that the information will not be copied for any purpose.
9. Each member will be provided with the opportunity to update her entry via an invitation to be included with the first Newsletter of each year.
10. At all times it will be the responsibility of the State or Territory Association Honorary Secretary to inform the National Secretary of new member entries to be forwarded to the Registrar.
11. It is the responsibility of the Federation’s Honorary Secretary, the Public Officer and the Honorary Secretaries of State and Territory Associations to arrange that obsolete printouts of part or whole of the National Register are disposed of by shredding. No copy of the Register may be disposed of through the public garbage collection.

These Guidelines were adopted in principle by Federal Council 8/2/92 and became operative from 16/3/92.