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THIS PAGE IS FOR NEW MEMBERS TO JOIN THE SOCIETY, not renewals.
If you wish to renew, please go to the Home page.
Member benefits include:
Twice-yearly scientific meetings have been held at different venues throughout the UK e.g. university veterinary field stations and zoological collections. Proceedings from each of these meetings were published with hard copy for attending delegates and a CD with all Proceedings, 2001 onwards, pdfs of these are available in the members' area of www.bvzs.org.
In 2017, a once-yearly three-day meeting was a very successful change and is now an annual event, firstly in London then subsequently in Birmingham and Manchester.
- For six years BVZS held a Satellite Day at BSAVA Congress in April in Birmingham and began an exotics lecture stream at LVS in November 2013, continued annually thereafter. The new venue in 2016, London's ExCel, was a huge improvement, each year a full afternoon of five different exotic talks has been successfully arranged and enjoyed by maximum capacity delegates.
- BVZS website has a password-protected members’ only area.
- Quarterly newsletter Wild Times is published in the members' area, members are alerted to the newest edition.
- Contact with individual veterinary surgeons and with recognised student branches in our veterinary schools.
- Specialist courses to aid in CPD.
- An email listserv for dissemination of information and networking, open to BVZS full and associate vet members only, plus a VN listserv and the new British Wildlife Health Network listserv.
The membership rates for 2020 are as follows:
Full BVZS member £82.00 (remember to add your postnomials to the membership form please)
Undergraduate Student £30.00
Veterinary Nurse/Student Nurse £30.00
Please note that definition of a full time UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT is one that has not graduated. Those in further education/internships get student rates at meetings if they first become a full member and are supported by a supervisor’s letter, sent to the Administrator. Thus is not possible for a vet to become a student member of BVZS.
Membership application form for for 2020 can be downloaded by clicking here. Anyone joining after November 1st 2019 will have membership till January 1st 2021.
Any prospective new members must ensure that their membership form is correctly completed and submitted to the Administrator with the appropriate fee. Vets, Vet Nurses and Vet Students do not require a proposer for membership, but non-Vets still do. Anyone not knowing someone to propose them should contact the Admininstrator for advice. Email proposals are accepted.
PLEASE NOTE that non-veterinary personnel applications must be proposed by a Full BVZS member i.e. a Veterinary Surgeon who is a BVA member
