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Become a member

Membership gives you year-round access to We The Curious and you'll also be supporting our work as a charity.

Our membership programme 

Membership gives you year-round access to We The Curious.

It's also designed with you in mind - you can build the package that you need, up to a maximum of 6 people. This can include adults and children.

There’s a range of ways to pay too – either as a one-off annual payment, or by monthly/annual Direct Debit.

Taking a pause

To help ensure that we're providing a high-quality experience for our current day visitors and members, we’ve paused new member sign-ups for a couple of months.

It will be possible to purchase membership again from April 2025. Our membership prices will increase when it goes back on sale again. 

If your membership is due to renew, or you’d like to add additional members to your booking, our membership team will be happy to help.

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Join our newsletter

Find out when membership becomes available again, along with our latest news and events, emailed to you roughly once a month.

Membership benefits

Membership with us gives you:

  • Year-round access to We The Curious – as long as we’re not fully booked
  • 50% off planetarium shows
  • Monthly members’ e-newsletter
  • The chance to contribute to We The Curious through workshops and surveys

View membership terms and conditions

 

Membership pricing

We are currently reviewing our membership pricing. 

Membership prices will increase when it goes back on sale again in April 2025.

We will continue to offer concession membership alongside standard membership packages. Concession membership includes over 65s, those receiving Universal Credit, students and disabled people. Child concessions cover those with registered disabilities and any children who are in foster care. 

Payment methods

To make paying for membership as easy as possible, you can pay in a number of ways:

Pay in full – make a one-off payment which covers your membership for the year. We'll notify you when your membership is ready to be renewed.

Monthly Direct Debit – spread the cost of membership over 12 equal monthly payments. Your Membership will automatically renew at the end of the year.

Annual Direct Debit – a single Direct Debit payment made each year. Your membership will automatically renew at the end of the year.

Make your support go further with Gift Aid

Only with your support can we deliver our mission of connecting people through sharing creative experiences which celebrate the unknowns in science.  

Make your support go further by opting into Gift Aid when you sign up as a member or renew.

This doesn’t cost you anything, but it means that We The Curious can claim 25% of the cost of your annual membership fee directly from the government (provided you are eligible).

This extra income makes a huge difference to us – thank you.

Gift membership

If you're interested in buying membership as a gift for someone, please contact our team via membership@wethecurious.org

Community membership

If you’re part of a charity or group working in and for the community, then our community membership scheme may be for you.

It’s designed to support charities, not for profit organisations and services, whose purpose is to support individuals who face barriers to accessing We The Curious.

As a community member, you can arrange for your group to visit us for free, as many times as you like.  

We’ll work with you, our community groups, to support your visits in the best way possible; so that we can better understand your needs, ensuring that your group can make the most out of your community membership.

To find out more about eligibility for community membership, and how to apply download our community membership form

Contact our team

For help with all things membership, get in touch with our team.

Email: membership@wethecurious.org

Phone: 0117 915 1000 (9am-4.30pm, Mon-Sat)

FAQs

No unfortunately not. Membership is non-transferable, and you will need to carry ID with you when you visit.

We’ve designed our membership scheme to be flexible and affordable, so you can always add additional people onto your membership if you think they’ll visit a lot. If they’re only going to visit once, you can purchase a day ticket for them.

We are an educational charity - membership and ticket sales are an essential source of income for us.

No, we're no longer able to offer this. We recently relaunched our membership scheme. In order to make it as affordable as possible, whilst also financially viable for us we had to remove some benefits – this included removing the benefit of upgrading from a day ticket to membership.

Membership typically costs just three times a one-off visit, so it is really good value if you're going to visit a lot.

We are an educational charity - membership and ticket sales are an essential source of income for us.

Since reopening it’s been wonderful to see high numbers of people visiting with lots of members returning, visiting and new members signing up. Because of this increased demand we know people have been struggling to visit when the venue hits capacity.  

To help ensure that we’re able to give all our day visitors and members a positive experience, we’re pausing new membership sign-ups for a couple of months. 

If your membership is due to renew, or you’d like to add additional members to your booking, our membership team will be happy to help – you can call 0117 915 1000 or email membership@wethecurious.org

Yes you can. You should’ve been issued with a gift voucher, which you can redeem against membership. You won’t be able to use this online, instead we ask that you get in touch with our team as soon as possible to redeem your membership. 

Please email membership@wethecurious.org with your gift voucher number and we’ll then get back in touch with you to get your membership set up.