Membership fee is $100 per annum or $60 for a half year.

Non-member class fees include a club facility use fee (eg. $30 for a 16h class)

Pay class and workshop fees directly to the tutor. Please contact them for their account details.

Pay for membership, special club demo sessions, firing and clay purchases to the Club.

Fee-free access to facilities: 8.00am until 9.30pm, except when classes and workshops are timetabled.

Discounted fees for classes and workshops – no club facility fee

Priority enrolment for classes – before non-members.

Access to Tuesday club days and nights.

Access to Monthly demonstrations (on Tuesdays).

Key access: If you are new to pottery, you can apply for key access after 1 year of classes. If an experienced potter, you can apply for key access (approval by committee).

Club Exhibition – opportunity to exhibit and sell your work

Christmas Market – opportunity to sell your work

Gallery – opportunity to progress to sell your work through the gallery

Newsletter & club communications

Firing Pots: regular membership firings – reduced rates.

Use of club glazes will be discussed at the 2024 strategic planning meeting). Currently these are not available.

Kiln training opportunity – progress to becoming a kiln user.

Kiln-trained members will have the ability to hire the club kilns. But this opportunity comes with an added layer of responsibility.

Our club is an incorporated society run by members for members on a voluntary basis.

Contribute in some way to the ongoing upkeep of facilities, e.g., mopping floors, tidying kitchen, cleaning toilets, wiping shelves, tidying tools etc. Or running a club demo night, joining the committee, helping with an exhibition, or another designated club job.

Come along to Working Bees (one per term).

Please note all class & workshop fees are to be payed directly to the tutor.

The club only excepts payments for membership, kiln ifrings & clay purchases.

In general you be invoiced for these.

When you make a direct deposit payment online, please ensure to include in the reference:

1. Your name (especially if it is different from the account name)

2. The Invoice reference number

3. What the payment is for (Membership, clay type and bag number, Firing number etc).

If there is more than one item, indicate all items in the 'particulars' line.

If you can’t fit it into the reference, please send an email with the details to Ken at: doidge.ken@gmail.com with ATTN Treasurer in the subject line

Our account details are as followed -

Mt Pleasant Pottery Group Inc

Westpac

Acc. no:. 03 1591 0083454 00

Comply with all guidelines, policies, and procedures with regards to the use of our facilities.

Comply with the health and safety policies and procedures.

Cleaning – take 15 minutes before leaving to

• Triple clean your wheel

• Clean the floor around your wheel.

• Clean all tools and equipment used.

• Clean all benches used.

Bring a 2L container to take your slurry home with you as despite our ‘clay trap’ the drains are easily blocked.

Ensure that your individual pieces are clearly marked with your initials or other unique identifier

Please stow your work on the shelves indicated by your class day or on the members shelves

Respect the work of your fellow potters, and do not handle their work

With the pressure on space, once term is over, your completed work should be collected and any associated firing/glazing charges paid promptly; please note you must pay before uplifting your pots

We regret we are unable to hold uncollected work indefinitely and reserve the right to dispose of it, after the end of term.

We are a health and safety conscious organisation; because of the nature of clay and the chemicals mixed to form glazes we need all our members and students to be aware of the hazards.

Our H&S document is available here, please read it & act on it.