New membership structure now in place

Last month, we announced changes to our membership structure and renewal process for 2025/26. The new membership structure simplifies membership management, improves billing efficiency, and allows organisational members to include their full teams within a membership tier.

What’s changed?

• One flat annual fee per organisational membership. No more per-person fees. 
• Organisational members can now add all recreation staff to their membership at no extra cost.
• The ‘Virtual’ membership category has been renamed ‘Subscriber’ to better reflect its purpose.
• A new ‘Extra Large’ organisational membership category has been introduced for organisations with over 1,000 recreation staff. 
• Membership pricing for all categories has been reviewed and updated.

Why we’ve made these changes

Members told us the old membership system was confusing, time-consuming, and created unnecessary admin – for them and for us. With support of our Board, we launched a project to explore a tiered membership offering. We surveyed members, gathered industry advice, and benchmarked against other membership organisations. Since introducing the new structure, we’ve received overwhelmingly positive feedback.

Need help?

Our Membership Coordinator, Wendy Russell, is ready to help you:

• Update your membership list 
• Manage invoices 
• Answer your membership questions.

Please email Wendy at: membership@nzrecreation.org.nz.