WE WILL BE TAKING MEMBERS AND RENEWALS FOR 2025 FROM THE 10th NOVEMBER

PLEASE NOTE THAT IT TAKES 3 - 5 WEEKS FOR MEMBERSHIP AND RENEWALS TO BE PROCESSED AND RETURNED TO YOU BUT ONCE PAID YOU WILL BE COVERED

WE APOLOGISE FOR THE INCONVIENCE 

APOLOGISE TO ALL

First I must apologise for not being a round much in the last four months.

Some of you maybe aware that in May this year, through no fault of our own, we were made homeless and we still are awaiting for the council to find us somewhere to live.

Also Richard had a major spinal operation which didnt go to plan and is waiting to have it redone.  And we all the moving we have had to do (eight places in four months) it has severly aggreviated my arthritis and I struggle to walk and I am now awaiting knee surgery.

So to say we have had a few things on our mind has been an understatement.

Hopefully now I am at a place where we can do renewals and new memberships.

If you have renewed or applied recently things will be sorted in the next few months

Please be patient with us as there is a possiblity of having to move again at some point so sending out cards might take a little longer than normal but you will get them

Thanks for sticking with us

Richard and Gill

Welcome to FID

Here at FID we are long term detectorists with Richard being a detectorist since 1978, starting when his father detected too, Gill has always worked within admin so loves doing FID work. 

 FID was formed as a voice for detectorists so that we can represent many opinions of detectorists at a national level to protect detecting as we know it.  Once you join FID you will be covered by our 3rd party liability insurance that we purchase, this is a personal insurance that you become afiliated to once you become a member of FID.

We either attend quarterly meetings at the British Museum or are represented at these meetings, this is so we can keep up to date on all things regarding PAS (Portable Antiquities Scheme) and how changes etc may effect detecting and detectorists.

We recently abstained from backing the new code of conduct as we did not agree with some of the changes made, this was to protect responsible detecting and the detectorist.

When we took over FID in 2014 we did so to offer a choice of club to represent detectorists, we took over no finances, and we destroyed all memberships that were not current.

If you join FID your details are kept while you are a member, if this lapses we destroy your details after 3 years, after that point if you decide you need FID cover again, you will have to re-join rather than renew, we have no choice to do this because of admin costs.

Unfortunately having taken on no funding we are not able to send out membership renewals via the post because of the cost, this is huge even with stamps supplied by members many do not supply any for return post so the stamps you send helps us immensely.  We also are unable to do a quarterly booklet, we would like to in time maybe do something on line, as we personally used to enjoy reading the FID booklet.  

At present you can contact us by e-mail which we try to check on a regular basis.

email:   fid.org.uk@gmail.com

Many thanks for your kind and continued support

Richard and Gill