BHS Membership: Become A Member Today | The British Horse Society

Membership gives a huge range of benefits to help you enjoy your life with horses. But more than that, membership is vital for helping us raise funds needed to improve access, safety, welfare and education for all.

Our caring team of experts and volunteers promote good care and prevent cruelty to hundreds of horses every year
Each year we campaign and protect hundreds of kilometres of local off-road equestrian routes that are threatened
Our dedicated team work tirelessly to make the world a safer place for horses, riders and carriage drivers

	Friend	Gold Family^	Gold Adult	Gold Junior	Silver	Overseas
Annual prices from	£187*	£158*	£91*	£67*	£46	£51*
Monthly prices from	£16	£13.58*	£8*	£6*	£4.25	✖
Public Liability Insurance up to £30m*	✔	✔	✔	✔	✖	✖
Personal Accident Insurance up to £10k*	✔	✔	✔	✔	✖	✖
Opportunity to progress your career with BHS Stages	✔	✔	✔	✔	✖	✖
Free 24/7 legal support helpline for equestrian & personal matters	✔	✔	✔	✔	✖	✖
Horse sale agreement service for legally compliant contracts	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✖
Guidance on VAT and Tax queries	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✖
Subscription to British Horse magazine	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Free and discounted tickets to equestrian events	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Regular E-News emails	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔
Additional charitable donation included	✔	✖	✖	✖	✖	✖
Free will service	✔	✔	✔	✔	✔	✖

*Includes Insurance Premium Tax

^Family members must live at the same address. Our Family membership starts from just £13.58 a month for two members to join. Each additional family member included costs £5.58 a month.

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The benefits of becoming a BHS member

Our impact in numbers

94 pence in every pound raised by the BHS spent on delivering our charitable objectives

6000

We react to over 6,000 threats to equestrian access

2,696

Children and young people have been supported through the Changing Lives Through Horses programme across the UK.

10,000

We respond to over 10,000 incoming calls and emails about welfare concerns

Membership options including insurance

We offer a range of membership options covered by public liability and personal accident insurance.

Gold Membership

Gold Family Membership

Friend Membership

Membership options without insurance

We have membership options for any horse lover who wants to support our work.

Silver Membership

Ireland Membership

International Membership

Discover our membership benefits

We offer a range of different membership options that include a variety of amazing membership benefits to help you enjoy your life with horses.

Find out more about the great membership benefits available with your membership.

Frequently Asked Questions

Membership benefits

Last updated: 29th September 2022

We offer a range of different membership options that include a variety of amazing membership benefits to help you enjoy your life with horses.

Membership FAQs

Last updated: 10th August 2022

If you have any questions about membership with the BHS, they may have been asked before. If your question hasn't been answered either here, or in our Insurance FAQs, get in touch with our team.

Insurance information

Last updated: 5th January 2024

Accidents are never pleasant to dwell on, but they are a fact of life for all of us. Even if we take every possible precaution, we can’t prevent the unexpected happening, so insurance is important to protect ourselves.

Insurance FAQs

Last updated: 30th May 2023

Read the frequently asked questions about our BHS membership insurance, including information about making a claim and what is covered.

Why do you need insurance?

Last updated: 30th May 2023

Accidents are never pleasant, but they are a fact of life for all of us. Even if we take every possible precaution, we can’t prevent the unexpected happening, so insurance is important to protect ourselves.

Legal support

Last updated: 6th November 2023

The BHS 24/7 Legal Helpline service is included in BHS Gold membership (Adult, Junior, Family), BHS Friend membership, and BHS Life and Founder membership.

Get in touch with us

To speak to our team about membership, please call us on 02476 840506, email us at membership@bhs.org.uk or complete our online enquiry form and one of our team will get back to you shortly. Opening times are 8:35am-5pm from Monday to Thursday and 8:35am-3pm on Friday.

Submit an enquiry

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