Any thatcher, or thatching firm, based in the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex or Hertfordshire, and, whose business is the whole or part-time thatching of buildings shall be eligible for membership, provided that they:

          a)     be willing to guarantee to the Association the quality of their work
          in accordance with the standards and specifications, published as
         Schedule B to the constitution;
          b)    understand and accept that their guarantee to the Association will
          remain a condition of membership;
          c)     agree to make their work available for inspection by the Standards
          Sub Committee;
          d)    agree to accept such rules as the Association may from time to
          time adopt;
          e)    attend at least one meeting per year;
          f)     pay the membership subscription when due.

Please click here, for the membership application letter, which details membership structure, membership requirements,   inspection fees & membership subscriptions.

Please click here, for the membership application form, which needs to be printed off, filled in & returned to the Secretary, with a cheque, for the inspection fee, made out to 'The East Anglia Master Thatchers Association'.

Associate Membership shall be available in two forms :-

Level 1     Professional individuals / bodies / organisations who shall pay an annual subscription of the Full membership fee.
Level 2     Allied trades, such as brotch makers / straw producers, also semi- retired thatchers, who no longer wish to be on the Full Membership list, who shall pay an annual subscription one half that of full membership.  
For further details, please contact the association eamta2006@eamta.co.uk