SWMVHC – Wine Club Membership

As part of the Trustees focus on securing a viable financial future while meeting the Objects of the Charity, it has been agreed to conduct a number of Social Activities in and around the Hall.  One of those is the SWMVHC – Wine Club – or Steep Village Hall Wine Club.  As a Club in it’s own right running inside the environment of the Village Hall, there is a focus on Wine Club Membership, with a subscription that offers discounted tickets to the tastings and on wine ordered at the event.  We plan to meet at three or four times annually and the tastings will be different, by colour, grape, region, season or something else – members get a say!

Alongside a paid subscription we offer a free membership for those who just want to come along an benefit from a guided tasting and be sociable!

Fundamentally, there are two types of membership:

• Paid

  • Individual – £18 pa.  Individual members are able to buy one discounted ticket per tasting.  In addition, where we offer the tasting an opportunity to order some of the wines in the tasting, there will be a £1 per bottle discount
  • Couple – £30 pa.  Couples who subscribe to this membership are able to buy two discounted ticket per tasting.  In addition, where we offer the tasting an opportunity to order some of the wines in the tasting, there will be a £1 per bottle discount

• Registered Member

  • There is no charge to become a Registered Member – it is Free to Register. Such members will get advanced warning of tastings and email reminders, and be able to purchase up to 4 full price tickets for them and their guests, as well as ordering any wine we have available on the night, benefiting from any bulk discounts we have managed to negotiate. (After adding “Registered” to your basket, you do need to go to your basket and checkout to create your membership).

IMPORTANT NOTE. We have had a report of an intermittent fault as you check out your membership subscription – tickets are unaffected. Under current bank rules, when you checkout the payment gateway may be required to ask for confirmation that it is you making the transaction. This is called Strong Customer Authentication and is outside of our control.  The intermittent issue, (which we can replicate), is that on a few occasions the SCA pop-up is not popping up with the spinning circle continuing to spin.  However, if you refresh the screen, the SCA  scree does appear and you can check out normally. Rest assured we are working with eth payment gateway to sort this issue, but in the meantime please try this workaround if you are caught out, but if it still doesn’t work, please let us know and well manually add your membership – and if all else fails just let us know you are coming and well sort it out on the day!