{"id":307,"date":"2023-02-23T15:37:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T15:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idhba.ie\/?page_id=307"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:27:29","slug":"membership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/idhba.ie\/?page_id=307","title":{"rendered":"Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Membership<\/h3>

The Irish Draught Horse Breeders Association is the trading name of the Native Irish Draught Horse Company Limited by Guarantee\u00a0(Company No.: 588974). Formerly run as an unincorporated association, the company structure was adopted by the membership at an EGM on 15th May 2016. It is a company limited by guarantee, not having share capital, in accordance with the Companies Act 2014. Membership continues to operate on an annual renewal basis.\n\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Four types of membership within the IDHBA<\/h3><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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A person who pays a single annual membership fee. Single membership entitles a person to one voting right.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Life membership is a once-off membership fee, which entitles a person to be a member for life. A life member is entitled to one voting right.<\/p>

Life Membership is only available to people who have been a member of the Association for five consecutive years prior to taking it out.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Any member resident outside of Ireland. International members will have the same voting rights as outlined above.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Family membership is defined as persons making up a family unit, resident at the same address. The following will be considered as eligible for family membership: a husband and wife; a parent and son or daughter; a brother and sister; two brothers; two sisters; or a co-habiting unmarried couple. Family membership entitles the holders to two voting rights (one each) at a meeting of the association, provided that two (2) adult persons covered under the family membership conditions are present at the meeting.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Annual membership of the association runs from January 1st to December 31st of each given calendar year.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Membership The Irish Draught Horse Breeders Association is the trading name of the Native Irish Draught Horse Company Limited by Guarantee\u00a0(Company No.: 588974). Formerly run as an unincorporated association, the company structure was adopted by the membership at an EGM on 15th May 2016. It is a company limited by guarantee, not having share capital, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"_jet_sm_ready_style":"","_jet_sm_style":"","_jet_sm_controls_values":"","_jet_sm_fonts_collection":"","_jet_sm_fonts_links":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-307","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idhba.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idhba.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idhba.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idhba.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idhba.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/idhba.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/idhba.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idhba.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}