With the 2025 season only a few months away, British Eventing have been working hard in the background to bring our community the best value membership we can offer. As you’ll have seen, we recently announced our new and improved fixtures list, with several new organisers and events for 2025, four additional days added to current events, and significant movement in fixture scheduling to try to tackle the impact of weather and ground quality.
Alongside the ability to compete at some of the most iconic venues in the UK while being protected by the highest safety standards and unparalleled veterinary and medical care, we’re also finalising plans for an exciting new offering – XC Plus – giving competitors more competing choices via a flexible and shorter version of the sport. Watch this space to find out more!
We are also incredibly proud to continue to provide our members with exclusive access to the brilliant British Eventing Support Trust who offer life-changing mental and physical support to competing members in times of need.
2025 MEMBERSHIP FEES
We are very aware of the impact that the cost-of-living crisis has had on our members over the last few years, and it was for this reason that we worked hard not to increase our fees. In fact, we have not increased fees to PAYG, Standard, Premier or Joint memberships, or horse registrations, since 2022.
Over this period, British Eventing have had to carry those costs, as well as the ever-increasing operational costs and overheads, ongoing inflation and rising insurance fees. Ensuring we can cover these costs is vital if we are to continue offering our members a safe and sustainable sport.
As part of our commitment to offering strong value for money to our members, we must be able to balance the books while ensuring we can continue to reinvest in the sport. Therefore, we hope you understand that for 2025, it is necessary that we increase our membership prices.
However, we are pleased that horse registration costs will remain the same, other than PAYG which is increasing to £40.
We have spent many hours analysing our sport and the value of the product we offer, comparing our sport against others. We feel strongly that even with the increases, we are still offering excellent value for money and have already put in place systems to help members manage their finances. Our Late Fees policy means that if an event is abandoned, members who commit to rerouting to a new event within three days of the abandonment, and within two weeks of the original event, will not incur a late fee.
We’ve also introduced Pay-Pal credit as a payment option to allow members to register for events over a period of time, easing cash flow concerns and providing earlier certainty for Event Organisers. The new PayPal set up will also enable members to pay for their membership and training in three interest-free instalments, thereby ensuring cost is spread across the year.
Membership fees for 2025
Annual Direct Debit fees:
| 2024 Price | 2025 Price | Increase (£) | |
| Intro | 80 | 85 | 5 |
| Standard | 125 | 140 | 15 |
| Premier | 275 | 300 | 25 |
| Owner | 110 | 120 | 10 |
| Joint | 160 | 180 | 20 |
| Corporate | 270 | 300 | 30 |
| Syndicate | 303.5 | 320 | 16.5 |
| Supporter | 50 | 55 | 5 |
| PAYG | 30 | 40 | 10 |
The new Membership fees will be effective from Wednesday 18th December 2024.
For more information on pricing, including the full list of different ways that you can pay and the associated prices, please see our website.
INSURANCE
British Eventing want to ensure that when you compete BE, members are fully protected.
Working closely with our Partners at Howden, it is becoming increasingly clear that whilst public liability insurance is widely available and many members have multiple public liability policies, personal accident insurance is not widely purchased, and is harder to obtain at a reasonable cost, yet crucial to ensuring our members are appropriately protected.
In our efforts to balance the rising costs of insurance with the right cover for our members, public liability cover will now be provided at BE Events only, to enable to us to add a brand new Personal Accident Cover, unique to the market, providing extensive and unrivalled cover, ensuring that there really is no safer way to compete.
The new structure means that all members will be provided with both public liability insurance and personal accident insurance at any BE Affiliated events, including any BE training event.
More details can be found here.
NEW MEMBER BENEFITS
Alongside improvements to our fixtures and training we are absolutely committed to adding value to your experience with British Eventing, so for 2025, members can also look forward to a whole host of new and exciting benefits, which we will continue to add to throughout the year.
More Subsidised Training
Alongside the enhanced competition schedule, we are investing heavily in our subsidised training offering, ensuring our members have ample opportunities to train with highly experienced coaches in their region, as well as online training content and educational webinars. We are currently in the process of appointing eight regional coaches who will engage, oversee and enhance the regional delivery of training and education for youth and adult members. To further support members with access to training support, we’re setting up a new collaboration with Ridely, an online training app helping you learn, grow and enjoy your sport via discounted access to hundreds of training videos and expert tips.
New Member Rewards Platform
We’ll also be introducing a brand new Rewards platform, providing members with access to discounts on 100s of high street brands, including offers from our fantastic Equestrian partners, at no cost to you. We’ll be adding to this throughout the year and rewarding members for engagement in the sport.
Expert Legal Support
We’ve partnered with expert equine legal firm Aria Grace Equine Law who will be offering legal services at preferential rates for our members, alongside a webinar series and digital FAQ portal, tackling some of your biggest questions.
Premium Content
We value your membership and feel it’s only right that you get exclusive access to our most valuable content. So, from January 2025, only Members will get free access to the BE Stats Centre, Leagues and Horse Records.
And if all that wasn’t enough, BE membership also gives you access to an array of Championships and Leagues to compete in, alongside:
- Exclusive offers from our Sponsors
- The British Eventing Magazine
- Free entry to events up to and including CCI2*
- Access to British Eventing’s handbook
- Ability for sponsored riders to wear sponsor logos in competition
- Complimentary event tickets to owners of competing horses
- Abandonment Support Fund – Worried about the weather? We’ve got you covered with our Support Fund, where riders can enter events in the knowledge that up to 70% of their entry fee will be refunded should an event be abandoned, an increase of 10%.
WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES
While announcing that we are increasing membership fees, we feel it is important to share with members where their hard-earned money is going and how it is contributing to the sport. As a governing body all our funds go right back into supporting the sport you love. Here are just a few ways in which your money is invested.
- We support our event organisers by providing Technical Advisers and Stewards at all BE competitions
- We ensure all events are backed by comprehensive insurance coverage, including public liability, professional indemnity, and medical liability.
- Our initiatives include a robust Youth Programme designed to nurture and develop the next generation of eventing talent
- We ensure comprehensive Coaching and Official Education programmes to enhance the skills and expertise within our sport
- We invest in and support safety testing and research
- Support the smooth running and promotion of the sport via a dedicated Staff Team who expertly manage memberships, the sport’s operations, and the essential business frameworks that underpin British Eventing
CEO Rosie Williams comments: “We have listened carefully to your wants and needs through our Here to Help campaign over the past year, and strive to continue to take on board your feedback and implement changes to ensure a positive future for the sport. We know times are hard and understand how difficult balancing the books can be. We have worked tirelessly to ensure that we can offer the best value offering possible to our members while ensuring we can cover our costs and continue to reinvest back into the sport we all love. We hope that our members will see the value in the membership we are constantly developing behind the scenes, and in the changes we have implemented and are planning on bringing in to make eventing more attractive than ever before. Thank you for your support.”
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
We appreciate there’s a lot of new information to take in so we will be running a Membership webinar, with Rosie Williams and representatives from Howden to help answer any questions on membership that you might have, including your insurance cover.
These will take place on Monday 13th January at 6pm. To register please click here.
In the meantime. for more information on anything related to pricing and membership, please contact our Membership Services team on 0330 174 8196 or email info@britisheventing.com.
For anything related to Insurance please call Howden on 0203 8577950.
You can also tune into the Equiratings podcast out on 13th December this week where Rosie chats to Nicole about all things membership and looks back on the amazing 2024 season.
