Why Join the RSCDS?

RSCDS Membership

The full combined fee gives membership to both the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society and the New Zealand Branch. Around $50 of the combined fee is sent to RSCDS HQ, the remainder is retained by the NZ Branch. (Separate membership is not available)

Direct benefits:

• $100 discount to attend NZ Summer School. (This nearly covers membership!)
• Discount on admission to dances and weekend schools
• 2 Copies of RSCDS Dancer magazine per year with information about SCD around the world
• RSCDS email newsletters
• 1 Copy of NZ Dancer magazine per year with information about SCD throughout NZ
• 3 Copies of Kiwi News newsletter per year

 Membership supports RSCSDS Activities such as: 

• Promoting SCD standards ensuring dances instructions, terminology and technique are the same wherever you dance in the world
• Publishing collections of dances
• Providing recorded music for new dances published by RSCDS.
• Maintaining a teacher training programme
• Running examinations and providing examiners for SCD Teaching Certificate in Scotland, NZ and elsewhere.
• General administration costs (both HQ and NZ Branch)
• Supporting Summer Schools (both Scotland and NZ)