Club and member body affiliation and athlete registration fees for 2025
After a consultation process with Regional Councils which has taken place over recent months, England Athletics can confirm the club and member body affiliation and athlete registration fees for 2025.
Effective from 1 April 2025, the athlete registration fee will be £20, while the club and member body affiliation fee will be £205.
Affiliated Club benefits (PDF 500kB) Member Body benefits (PDF 200kB) Registered Athlete and Runner benefits (PDF 600kB)England Athletics Chair, Gary Shaughnessy, explains:
“As a not-for-profit organisation, we have worked incredibly hard and explored at length various ways in which we can continue to ensure that our clubs, member bodies and athletes get the best possible value for money."
"While any price increase is something we tried hard to avoid, these small rises of £1 per year for athletes and £5 per year for clubs and member bodies are the result of our commitment to ensuring that our sport and those within it can continue to thrive in the face of growing costs to England Athletics in critical areas, such as insurance.
"The fees for athletes and clubs and member bodies will be reinvested back into our sport, with these areas of reinvestment informed by our ongoing discussions with clubs and individuals on what is most important to them. Most notable investment continues to be into the grass roots areas of club support, coach and officials education and development and enhancing competition experiences."
- Read a reminder of how stakeholder feedback informs the work we do (initially released in March 2024)
England Athletics has a commitment to diversifying its income streams, ensuring that the sport becomes more sustainable by being less reliant on one single source of income, and that more money can be invested into areas that matter to our clubs, member bodies and athletes. As part of this commitment, the organisation will soon launch a new membership offer, aimed at non-club runners in addition to continuing to work on increasing commercial investment into the sport.
Gary continues:
"We have an unbelievably dedicated, enthusiastic network of people - many of whom work in a voluntary capacity - who are the lifeblood of our sport. We owe it to them to continue exploring every way in which we can enhance experiences and safeguard the future of the sport, and we believe that working in this way will give us the best chance of creating lasting, positive change."
Impact of investment in 2023/24
Membership fees have enabled the following impact during the last year:
Our investment 2024/25
Our membership fees and other income is re-invested back into the sport:
About England Athletics
As a governing body supporting the growth and development of grassroots athletics and running in England, we see every day how our sport changes lives. We exist to harness its simplicity and power to bring communities together and help improve the health and wellbeing of the nation. Anyone can participate in athletics and running regardless of age, ability, background, or aspiration. Working side-by-side with our partners and national network of clubs and competition providers, our vision is for an inclusive sport where everyone feels safe, welcome and able to flourish. From recreational runners to elite athletes, volunteers to leaders, coaches to officials, together we must ensure every participant has the opportunity to enjoy a life-long love for the sport. As a not-for-profit organisation, find out in our strategy how we are investing back into athletics and running to create huge positive change across the country through to 2032.