Being an Ordinary member allows you to shape the course of Postgraduate experience at Hatfield through your voting rights. As an Ordinary member, you can vote in MCR Officer elections, propose modifications and amendments to our standing orders and participate effectively on how we govern the MCR. Remember your voice matters and being an MCR member gives you the chance to meaningfully leave your opinion and imprint on Postgraduate affairs in the college!

Following on from the last point, being an Ordinary member allows you to be an officer of the Middle Common Room Executive committee. There are also non-Executive roles proposed on ad-hoc basis like an International Officer, a NE Students Rep, a Green Officer, a PoC Representative and a Volunteering and Outreach Rep. You cannot run or be co-opted to these roles as an Associate member.

Being an Ordinary member gives you a substantial discount from the full price of Formals. Prices for the Epiphany and Easter Term are yet to be fixed. Please remember, the better our Oridnary membership count, the better our subsidy! So join us for a full (and cheaper) Durham experience!

The MCR participates with the Hatfield Trust to support members for the purposes of research and professional development. We have supported conference attendance, field trips and workshop attendance in the past. If you are not an Ordinary member, you will not have access to this invaluable funding opportunity. For more information about this: Please visit write to hatfield.mcracademic@durham.ac.uk

Ordinary members usually have free entry to events run by the MCR. We often charge entry fees to non-members for events. Please understand this charge is usually to cover spends on refreshments and items for the events. The more members we have, the more likely it is for us to have more and better events.

We also have MCR led trips to nearby sites of interest. These could be Museums, galleries or short excursions to places like York or the Northumberland coast. More locally, in Durham City, we coordinate trips to pub quizzes or other activities like bowling. We also run a limited MCR tab for some Pub trips and Cafe Trips, which could reduce the strain on your wallet!

Being an Ordinary member of the MCR entitles you to minutes of the General meetings and accounts of MCR spending. We publish our accounts before the General Meetings held at each term.

In order to continue to run an exciting programme of events, we rely on payment of an annual levy (which is currently £50).
Non-Members will be charged a higher price for college events such as formals or the college balls if they don’t pay the MCR levy.

You can pay you levy here

If you join later, are an Erasmus student or have any other query about paying the levy, please contact: hatfield.mcrtreasurer@durham.ac.uk. Our Treasurer will be happy to discuss this with you!