WE WILL BE TAKING MEMBERS AND RENEWALS FOR 2024 FROM THE 1ST OCTOBER

 

 

 

PLEASE NOTE THAT IT TAKES 3 - 5 WEEKS FOR MEMBERSHIP AND RENEWALS TO BE PROCESSED AND RETURNED TO YOU

 

WE APOLOGISE FOR THE INCONVIENCE 

 

 

Please take note of our new address for FID.

 

Welcome to FID

 

Here at FID we are long term detectorists with Richard being a detectorist since 1978, starting when his father detected too, Gill has always worked within admin so loves doing FID work. 

 

 FID was formed as a voice for detectorists so that we can represent many opinions of detectorists at a national level to protect detecting as we know it.  Once you join FID you will be covered by our 3rd party liability insurance that we purchase, this is a personal insurance that you become afiliated to once you become a member of FID.

 

We either attend quarterly meetings at the British Museum or are represented at these meetings, this is so we can keep up to date on all things regarding PAS (Portable Antiquities Scheme) and how changes etc may effect detecting and detectorists.

 

We recently abstained from backing the new code of conduct as we did not agree with some of the changes made, this was to protect responsible detecting and the detectorist.

 

When we took over FID in 2014 we did so to offer a choice of club to represent detectorists, we took over no finances, and we destroyed all memberships that were not current.

 

If you join FID your details are kept while you are a member, if this lapses we destroy your details after 3 years, after that point if you decide you need FID cover again, you will have to re-join rather than renew, we have no choice to do this because of admin costs.

 

Unfortunately having taken on no funding we are not able to send out membership renewals via the post because of the cost, this is huge even with stamps supplied by members many do not supply any for return post so the stamps you send helps us immensely.  We also are unable to do a quarterly booklet, we would like to in time maybe do something on line, as we personally used to enjoy reading the FID booklet.  

 

At present you can contact us by e-mail which we try to check on a regular basis.

 

email:   fid.org.uk@gmail.com

 

Many thanks for your kind and continued support

 

Richard and Gill