Membership Information

ASF membership is available in one of the following categories:

Join the ASF through a Corporate Member Club

Want to join the ASF and go caving?

• Sign up with one of our Corporate Clubs in an area near you.
  Click here for a list of Clubs and contact details https://www.caves.org.au/caves-and-clubs/state-clubs
• Club membership includes ASF membership. All caving trips, training and access to equipment are organised through our Corporate Clubs.

Club Membership categories

• Corporate Members
  Organisations (clubs and Societies) which have at least one speleological objective, subscribe to the Federation's aims and guidelines, meet the requirements in the by-laws for Corporate Membership, and are approved by the Council.

• Download:
  asf_membership_payment_advice_form_2022_2023
   
• Download:
  ASF Corporate membership payment advice 2021-22 v2
   

• Provisional Members
  Organisations which have at least one speleological objective, subscribe to the Federation's aims and guidelines, meet the requirements in the by-laws for Provisional Membership, are approved by the Executive or Council, but have not yet attained Corporate Membership

Individual Members

• Individualsmay apply to join the ASF directly if they do not wish to join a Corporate Club and who subscribe to the Federation's aims and guidelines. Individual Members can attend caving trips but all trips are organised through our Clubs.
• Individual Membership must be approved by the Executive.
• Contact us for more information before applying 
  
  
  
• Associates
• Organisations which subscribe to the Federation's aims and guidelines, but are not otherwise eligible to become a Corporate Member Club and which have some objectives which are similar to those of the Federation.
• Associate status is not a form of ASF membership and organisations are not 'affiliated' with ASF.
• Contact us to become an Associate of the ASF.

updated 1/9/2020