Membership is open to people and organisations who complete the membership application, agree to the objectives of the association and to comply with the Act and the Association’s rules, and pay the prescribed annual fee. CAPaD's membership year is 1 July to 30 June. Members who join in May or June, have their membership carried into the following membership year.

Membership Fees

  • Individual Member: $20
  • Passionate Member: $45
  • Concession card holder, full time student, pensioner: $10
  • Organisational member with < $10,000 annual revenue: $35
  • Organisational member with ≥ $10,000 annual revenue: $95
  • Student organisation with < $10,000 annual revenue: $25
  • Student organisation with ≥ $10,000 annual revenue: $65

All financial members, whether individual or organisational are entitled to one vote at CAPaD meetings and to stand for the Committee.

Please download and fill in the membership form (below), and email it to the Secretary, along with the receipt of your bank transfer. We will email a receipt. Snail mail works too - details in the form.

Bank account details below.

Membership Form for 2026 - 27

Download, complete and email (or post) the Membership Form 

Got a question?

Please email the Secretary

Donate to Support the Alliance

To awaken democracy needs funding, and CAPaD relies solely on member support for its operating income and project costs. We are not funded by political parties, governments, corporations or industries. At the moment donations are not tax deductible, but we are working on that.

To help us advance our aims, please donate.

 

Note about donations for your information 

ACT Electoral law requires us to report all donations because we are regarded as a Third Party entity due to our election related education activity.

People who donate cumulatively more than $1000 over the four-year electoral cycle will be named and their address reported in our election return to Elections ACT after each ACT election. Elections ACT publishes the name, suburb and postcode of an individual’s home address, or the post office box details, on their website. More information here.

 

Bank Account Details for Memberships and Donations

Please transfer funds directly to our bank account:

Account Name: Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy
BSB: 633-000
Account Number: 156972770

Remember, please put your family / organisation name in the reference / information field to help our treasurer sort out the receipts.

Cheques to the mailing address (in membership form) works too.

Volunteer to support the Alliance

We are ambitious. And we always need help getting things done.

If you want to help, from helping set out chairs and tidying up at events, promoting our messages or joining in a project, OR have an idea you would like to take forward, please email the Secretary.

Use your will to help Awaken Democracy

Making a gift to the Awakening Democracy Foundation in your will is a very special act of generosity and foresight that supports the Canberra Alliance for Participatory Democracy (CAPaD). Please read how you can do this here.