£85.00/year
Full membership of this professional body is open to anyone who can supply three examples of published work that demonstrates that the applicant is generating a body of work communicating about gardening and/or horticulture in whatever form, meeting high quality standards, as determined by the GMG committee, for financial gain*.
We welcome applications from writers, broadcasters, bloggers, podcasters, photographers, editors, those involved with social media and any other form of communication.
* Declared as income to HMRC or your local tax authority if outside the UK, and in all cases this is above the personal trading allowance offered by HMRC to qualifying UK individuals (currently in the UK this is £1,000). Find out more about this in the UK.
Earnings from garden media work includes salaries and freelance fees while working on or for garden media companies or revenue created by an individual’s online gardening media activities. These can include (but are not limited to) advertising, affiliate sales, brand collaborations, consultancy, coaching & teaching, talks, donations, membership schemes, merchandise or products for sale, self-publishing or paid-for newsletters.
Fees: no fees are due when submitting your application, but the first membership subscription payment will be due upon application approval. Please note, the first-year membership payment is increased to £95.00 (this includes a joining fee of £10.00 to cover the administration costs of processing your application).
£63.75/year
This is, at the discretion of the Guild's committee, offered to new starters in the profession, who can show high quality work communicating about gardening and/or horticulture in whatever form, meeting high quality standards, as determined by the GMG committee, but who remain unpublished or whose income as a garden communicator doesn’t meet the threshold to be declared to your tax authority (HMRC in the UK).
Fees: no fees are due when submitting your application, but the first membership subscription payment will be due upon application approval. Please note, the first-year membership payment is increased to £73.75 (this includes a joining fee of £10.00 to cover the administration costs of processing your application).
£125.00/year
Associate membership is available to gardening and horticultural organisations and companies, public relations companies, publishers of garden material and anyone related to the gardening and horticultural industry. Any key person representing the company can become an Associate Member. Associate Members are not allowed a vote at general meetings.
Fees: no fees are due when submitting your application, but the first membership subscription payment will be due upon application approval. Please note, the first-year membership payment is increased to £135.00 (this includes a joining fee of £10.00 to cover the administration costs of processing your application).
£45.00/year
This category of membership is open to anyone who is interested in the Guild, but isn’t working in gardening/horticultural communication and doesn’t qualify for associate membership. This includes, for example, probationary members who haven’t made full membership after three years, garden and nursery owners, and anyone with a keen interest in gardening/horticulture.
Friends of the Guild are not allowed a vote at general meetings, nor purchase tickets for the Awards Lunch at the members' rate.
Fees: no fees are due when submitting your application, but the first membership subscription payment will be due upon application approval. Please note, the first-year membership payment is increased to £55.00 (this includes a joining fee of £10.00 to cover the administration costs of processing your application).