Trust Membership Renewals 2025/26 Season

Quick Recap

Trust Memberships are due for renewal on 1^st July 2025  and this season will cost £15 for adults and £5 for Under 16s.

While any increase is unwelcome, we have to balance the need to meet our financial obligations to the other owners of the club against the limited range of income streams we have available to us. This is the first increase in prices in 11 years and we have delayed it as long as we could. 

To enable the changes on the website for the price increase we have had to cancel all previous subscriptions (completed on 7^th June).

So, EVERYONE will need to renew manually this year. Those who had previously set up renewing subscriptions will also have to renew manually as we are not able to increase the price for a current subscription. Quite rightly, the payment system we use doesn’t allow us to just increase the price of a subscription someone is on. If it did, you would be able to change a £10 subscription to £1000 and the subscriber would have no way of stopping this.

Life Members of the Trust: You remain Life members and always will be, this has not been cancelled, just the annual subscription on the membership page to allow you to book travel etc. Life members will need to sign up again for this and will be issued a code as in previous seasons to apply in the discount field on the form so that you are not charged.

Next steps

From TODAY you will be able to log on to your account and renew your membership at https://bluebirdstrust.co.uk/become-a-member/ but please take note of the following.

• BEFORE YOU BUY YOUR MEMBERSHIP, PLEASE PAUSE to consider the type of membership you need if you are also buying for a family member etc.

Please take care to select the correct membership type for your needs. We have various different options, for couples, families etc but if you cannot find the type that suits your circumstances or you are in any doubt, please do not buy, but email us for advice (see point 4).

• Never been a member before? You will need to register before you can purchase a membership. See https://bluebirdstrust.co.uk/new-website-faq/ for details.

• LIFE MEMBERS only need to “renew” if you use Trust Travel as you need to be a “current” member to be able to book travel. All Life Members will be sent a code to use as previously.

• QUERIES and questions can be emailed to info@bluebirdstrust.co.uk but may take some time to answer due to holidays. If in any doubt, DO NOT buy your membership until we have replied with the answer. Please be patient as these emails will not be responded to until I am back in the UK in mid July. The first chance you will have to talk to us in person on a matchday will be the Rochdale friendly on Saturday 26th July.

1901 Club

The 1901 Club is entirely separate to Trust Membership. The 1901 Club is going to be launched in mid July this summer, running until the end of August as usual and at the usual £25.

Details of the stadium projects the 1901 Club will be funding this summer, and the reasons to support it, will be advertised as it launches.