2025-26 Climb Shetland membership
2025 membership is now available. Membership runs for one year from 1 April 2025 – 31 March 2026.
A whole year’s membership is still just £35.
Memberships forms can be downloaded here, and are also available at Aith climbing wall, or from committee members.
Membership gives you full free access to outdoor climbing on real rock with other club members. Skills development sessions both at the wall and outside, and free use of club equipment including helmets, abseil ropes and banks stakes.
As a member you can help shape the direction of your club and climbing in Shetland through club meetings and our annual general meeting.
When you join Climb Shetland you automatically become a member of Mountaineering Scotland too, and this gives you third party liability insurance, and outdoor equipment discounts with retailers. If you are sooth there are Mountaineering Scotland courses and events you can attend https://www.mountaineering.scot/safety-and-skills/courses-and-events/courses.
https://www.mountaineering.scot/members/members-benefits/your-discounts
Short term in Shetland?
Even if you are just going to be here in Shetland for a few days or weeks, we would love to have you as a member. For newer competent climbers, we can offer support and progression, and maybe your first experience of climbing on real rock. For more experienced climbers, we get the chance to learn from each other, and introduce the wonderland that is Shetland climbing.
As we are a small club, we don’t have the resources or spare hands that would allow us to take out new climbers for a few trips to see if they would like to join. We’ve done that in the past, but often club members would end up being “experience days out” guides with no time for their own climbing. All our climbing is on sea cliffs, (da banks in Shaetlan). Even at crags which don’t need an abseil approach , there can still be some serious scrambles to get to the start of the climb. Becoming a member means you understand the risks and responsibilities of climbing in Shetland, and we in turn we can provide the support and skills development to get you ready for your first climb outdoors, or to enjoy the thrill of climbing in Shetland if you are just visiting. Best of all you are helping to contribute to the growth of climbing in Shetland.
Even if you just come on one day out, £35 it still a bargain! See you soon.
