Why your Astronomical Society should join SAGAS and how to join

Revised 27th August 2008

SAGAS - The Southern Area Group of Astronomical Societies

The aim of SAGAS is to unite astronomical societies in the Southern Area of England, UK so that we can help each other, share ideas and observations, give our society members a better service and get more out of our hobby.

There are no formal boundaries to the SAGAS area , although roughly it is South of the Thames and the M4 until Swindon and then down through Salisbury  to the coast.

After a long discussion the member societies agreed to charge member societies a small fee of £15 per year to cover the cost of the meetings, the web site and attending the FAS meetings on behalf of the member societies. This change has remove the un-fair situation where those who attended the meetings subsidised those who did not attend but still received the benefits.

15 Benefits for £15

 We now have 15 reasons why your society should be  in  SAGAS, the original list is below and the latest version will be added shortly.

 1.    By joining you can get help on running your society (for newer ones), help with speakers and help with insurance issues and legal requirements.

2.    Social benefits:-  Getting to know others from different areas.  Sharing ideas.

3.    Help and advice on the purchase and performance of  telescopes.

4.    Advertising:   Details of membership secretary to appear on web site and passing details to others of special meetings which could attract  members from other societies. The SAGAS web site has a map showing where member societies are located so prospective members can locate their local societies.

5     Practicable joint observing sessions.  Help with running public observing sessions.

6.    An annual 'Open meeting' to which all members of all societies are invited. This takes the form of a series of lectures and is hosted by a different society each year.

7.    Closer links with the national Federation of Astronomical Societies,  but there is no requirement for societies who are not FAS members at present to join to get SAGAS  membership.

8.     Knowing what other societies in your area are doing. This information will be published on the SAGAS web site  www.SAGASonLine.org.uk  or in the Newsletter which is distributed electronically in pdf format.

 We sincerely hope that your society will decide to join us . We would  welcome you.            .

 Keith Brackenborough

Co-ordinator

SAGAS 

To join just complete the application form available below and send it to the address shown.

Copies of the form are available here in: Microsoft Office (.DOC), Rich Text Format, or in PDF, download whichever you prefer.

John Murrell - SAGAS Webmaster

sharing the same sky

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