Membership Terms and Conditions

About No More Damsels

No Mode Damsels is a charity for the promotion of equality by eleminating discrimination on the grounds of sex and gender across the wargaming and role-play gaming community.  It seeks to do this through several means, including:

  • Educating people,

  • Providing training opportunities and encouragement for women, transgender and non-binary gamers, and

  • Offering mentoring / support for women, transgender and non-binary gamers.

No More Damsels is constituted as an unincorporated association.  This means that members hold the trustees of the charity to account democratically each year at an annual general meeting (AGM) of the charity.  Additionally, every member is able to stand for election as one of the trustees of the charity at the AGM.


Membership

Membership of No More Damsels is open to anyone over the age of 18.  Members must agree to work towards the charity’s aims. In the charity’s constitution these are termed the “charitable objects”.  These are:

“[No More Damsels’ aims] are to promote equality and diversity by the elimination of discrimination on the grounds of sex, gender reassignment, or gender identity.  It will do this by:

  1. Promoting women, transgender, and non-binary players in the tabletop community and advocating for women and non-binary people in leadership positions in clubs.

  2. Educating and raising awareness within role play game and wargaming clubs and communities to ensure equality of people regardless of sex, gender, or gender reassignment.

  3. Promoting activities to advance the equality of people of different sexes and genders, and the equality of those who have gender reassignment.

  4. Conducting or commissioning research on sex and gender balances within role play games clubs and wargaming clubs and publishing results.

  5. Cultivating a sentiment in favour of equality regardless of a person’s sex, gender, or gender reassignment.”

Note 1: By ‘women’ or ‘female’ we mean anyone who identifies with the female gender, regardless of their biological sex

Note 2: By ‘non-binary’ we mean anyone who does not identify with either male or female gender regardless of their biological sex.

To become a member fill out our registration form.  You must agree to work towards the aims of the charity and for NMD to hold your name and address in its register of members.

Benefits of Membership

As a member, you are eligible to:

  • Help write a community guide.

  • GM for us at events.

  • Run wargaming tables for us at events.

  • Receive email updates about NMD activities.

  • Attend the annual general meeting and vote on future policy, budgets and changes to the constitution.

  • Run for Trustee.

  • Get early access to events.

  • Help with promotion of activities that align with the NMD mission.

  • Be involved in the strategic direction of NMD.

Losing your membership

You can only lose your membership if you work against the best interests of the charity.  This includes undermining No More Damsels’ charitable objects, financial misconduct, or breaking its code of conduct for events or in NMD’s online spaces.  If this happens, one of trustees will meet with you, or your nominated representative, to discuss the issue. If the issue cannot be resolved in that meeting then the trustees will meet to debate a resolution to end your membership.  They will give you at least 21 days notice in writing of the time of the meeting, alongside the reason for its proposal. You will be invited to make representations at that meeting or for you to send a representative to do so on your behalf.  If the trustees pass the resolution then your membership will end immediately.