Cancelling membership

How to cancel your membership of the union. 

Before leaving the union, please talk to your rep, your branch, or the membership team about whether there are other options you might want to explore. For instance, members who are on Maternity Leave, Shared Parental Leave, or Adoption Leave do not have to pay membership fees for the duration of the period of leave, up to a maximum of 18 months. If you work part-time reduced rates might apply. Associate membership is available for those who are no longer eligible for standard membership because they have left employment in education but who have not retired.

Members who are retiring can maintain membership at a reduced rate as a retired member, rather than cancelling their membership.

If you wish to retain access to union advice and assistance, you must maintain continuous full, retired or associate membership of the union as appropriate. Once your membership stops you will not be entitled to advice or support from the union, even if you are seeking help with an issue that relates to a time when you were a member.

If you need further advice on options such as retired membership or notifying the union that you’re on maternity leave, please contact membership or call the membership team on 0345 811 8111. (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm)

If you still want to cancel your membership, please fill out this form and click submit. The NEU membership team will receive notification of your cancellation and will email you written confirmation. Please note this might go to your junk folder.

Cancelling membership form

Your name
Date of birth
Membership number
Please select one of the following reasons for cancelling your membership


If you have joined/will be joining another union/organisation, please tell us which one:

If you’d like to tell us more about your reasons for leaving, please do so here.
In order to ensure that our union meets the needs of members, we periodically carry out short surveys to understand the experiences of members, including those who have left. Do you give permission for the NEU to contact you by email or telephone within the next 6 months to ask you for more detailed feedback?
 
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