Become a Member - Actors’ Benevolent Fund

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Personal details

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About your career

Please provide a copy of your professional CV or Spotlight Pin with this application form.

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If you don’t have spotlight you can attach a copy of your CV instead:

Upload your CV

If you are unable to upload this document, please post it to us at: Actors’ Benevolent Fund, FREEPOST LON20563, London, WC2N 6AD

Are you a member of Equity?

Are you a member of Equity? Membership of the Actors’ Benevolent Fund is not dependent on an applicant’s existing Equity membership; this information is useful for us to process your application.

Annual Membership Fee

If your application for membership is successful, a minimum payment of £20 will be due at the start of each year of your membership.

You can send us a cheque, payable to the Actors’ Benevolent Fund, along with this application, make payment by credit/debit card, or set up a standing order with your bank:

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Standing Order/Direct Debit:

Tick here if you wish to set up a Standing Order/Direct Debit to pay your annual membership fee. We will then contact you and provide you with the relevant details.

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DATA PROTECTION STATEMENT

All details you have provided in the application form will be kept confidential.

I declare that the information provided in this application form is true and correct.

When you submit your details to us The Actors’ Benevolent Fund becomes a ‘data controller’ of your data. You can contact us at any time using the methods available in the CONTACT section of this website about how we use your data. We will process your data because you have asked us to do so. No other organisation will be given your data unless you have expressly requested this. Your data will be held on computers and paper files in the UK. If you have applied for help and your application is successful, we will keep your data for seven years from the date that our support to you ends. If your application is unsuccessful we will keep your data for one year from the date of our rejection before deleting it. If you have made a donation we will keep your data for a period of seven years from the date of the donation. If you have applied to become a Friend of the ABF we will keep your data for a period of seven years from the date you cease to be a Friend of the ABF. If you have successfully applied to become a member we will keep your data for a period of seven years following the date you cease to be a member. If your application for membership is unsuccessful your data will be kept for a period of one year before being deleted.

You have the right to: access the data we hold about you; correct any mistakes in the data we hold; make restrictions to the data we hold about you; object to us holding data about you; request that your data can be portable (shared easily with any other organisation), and; make a complaint. You can withdraw consent for us to hold your data at any time by contacting us in writing, using the CONTACT section of this website. We do not use any automated systems to process your data.

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Membership contact preferences

We prefer to communicate with our members via electronic communications which helps the ABF to save considerable sums of money, so that we can spend more of our charitable funds to benefit our beneficiaries. If you cannot access an email address or prefer postal mail, please be assured that we can still contact you via post.

Please kindly indicate your contact preferences below by ticking the relevant boxes.

(1) We are required by law to send our Members certain mandatory communications: this includes Notice of the AGM, Annual Reports & Accounts and Membership Renewal Reminders.

I wish to enable the Fund to send communications to me electronically by email, and by means of a website, in accordance with the Companies Act 2006.

If you choose not to provide an email address then we are still required to write to you by post.

(2) Optional Electronic Communications: Any member can choose to receive or opt out of these additional electronic communications. a. I would like to receive exclusive information and newsletters from the ABF to keep me updated on the work and impact of the charity:

I wish to receive these electronic communications.

I do not wish to receive these electronic communications.

b. I would like to receive periodic information on opportunities to support the ABF, such as through taking part in research, events, or supporting particular projects or appeals to help the acting and stage management community:

I wish to receive these electronic communications.

I do not wish to receive these electronic communications.

Thank you

We want to express our deepest gratitude for joining our community. It is your support that enables us to provide crucial assistance and create a meaningful impact on the lives of countless actors and stage managers. Thank you.

Privacy statement

As a member of the Actors Benevolent Fund (ABF), you agree that we hold your personal data to fulfill the legitimate interest of organising your attendance at the annual general meeting. Your data will be erased after six years when you cease being a member. You have the right to ask us to provide you with your personal data, the right to have certain data erased or corrected, and conditional rights restrict us from processing your data, and to object to us processing your data. You have the rights to escalate any data privacy complaints to the information commissioner's office.

If you have any queries regarding your data privacy, then please contact us:

Email: membership@abf.org.uk
Tel: 020 7836 6378
Address: 6 Adam Street, London, WC2N 6AD

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