The Society is governed by its Constitution, which was ratified in May 2004. The Society is listed with the Charity Commission for England and Wales as Registered Charity No. 1104496.
Members of the W. H. Auden Society are sent its publications, which at present consist of a semi-annual Newsletter containing essays, reviews, announcements, notes and queries about W. H. Auden and his work. Publishers and theatres sometimes offer members of the Society slight discounts on books and performances. The term of membership is one year. Fees are as follows:
Individual members: £ 9 $ 15 € 15 Student members: £ 5 $ 8 € 8 Institutions: £ 18 $ 30 € 30
The W. H. Auden Society is registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales, and is registered as a not-for-profit corporation in the State of New York.
Join the Society on-line: Users anywhere in the world may use a credit card to open or renew an individual membership ($15) on-line by clicking this link to the widely-used PayPal transaction service. (If you order from outside the United States, your credit card will be billed by PayPal in your own currency, but the Society will receive the fee in dollars.) Please read this very important note: Please, please, please on the payment menu, click on "Add special instructions for the merchant" and type your mailing address into the box that appears when you click. If you neglect to type your address into that box, we will not receive it, and we will not be able to send you the Newsletter. (PayPal will ask for your address in order to confirm your credit card if you do not already have a PayPal account, but PayPal will only send us your address if you type it in to the box that appears when you click "Add special instructions for the merchant". Again, please type your address into the box that appears when you click "Add special instructions to the merchant" box so that we can send you the Newsletter!
Membership fees by direct debit (UK): The Society encourages those members who pay in sterling to set up a standing order. You may write to your bank instructing them of the details as follows:
Please pay £9 [for institutions: £18] to The
W. H. Auden Society annually until
further notice.
Account Name: The WH Auden Society
Account Number: 00210420
Sort code: 56-00-17
Join the Society by mail: You may also send requests for membership (and for a receipt if desired), with a check in US dollars or a cheque in UK pounds sterling, to:
The W. H. Auden Society
78 Clarendon Road
London W11 2HW
England
Membership fees are used to cover some of the costs of printing and mailing the society's Newsletter; they are not used to pay the costs of this web site, which is supported entirely by contributions from officers of the society and other voluntary contributions.
Privacy policy: The Society never distributes, sells, publishes, rents, circulates, shares, gives away, or otherwise reveals its membership list, nor does it reveal any information to anyone or any organization about its members. The Society does not request or want your e-mail address (although it receives it if you choose to join the Society on-line), nor does it request or want your telephone number or fax number. The Society never sends unsolicited e-mails or faxes, and never makes unsolicited telephone calls.
The officers and founding members of the society are listed on a separate page. A note on some e-mails received by society also appears on a separate page.