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Welcome!
Whether you're here to join our charity for the first time, or to renew your membership, please scroll down to find out more. 

The Addison’s Disease Self-Help Group (ADSHG) is able to achieve much of its impact, thanks to the support, loyalty and engagement of its members.  Thank you for considering joining us to learn more about Addison’s and adrenal insufficiency, and to help us to achieve our goals as a charity.

Membership is open to anyone affected in any way by Addison’s or other forms of adrenal insufficiency that result in steroid dependency, including family members, supporters and healthcare professionals

Your member benefits

  • Being part of a community that supports each other, shares knowledge, and comes together to improve the quality of life for people with Addison’s and adrenal insufficiency.
  • Welcome pack in the post: key leaflets and publications to help educate you about Addison’s and adrenal insufficiency, and the charity.
  • Member magazine (x2/yr) and Keeping You Posted newsletters
  • Regular member only e-news
  • Member only online forum for support and advice
  • Member only regional socials (run by volunteers)
  • Early bird access to our charity events
  • A vote at our AGM to help set our direction as an organization.

Membership Options

You can choose to be a Digital Member or a postal member.   

  • Postal: £35/year
  • Digital: £33/year

International members: If you are living outside the UK, you are only able to have a digital membership and will receive your member pack digitally.

Your member pack

We'll tell you how to order our free member pack full of our most useful leaflets as well as:

  • ADSHG adrenal crisis emergency wallet card
  • ADSHG hospital emergency steroid-dependent stickers
  • ADSHG information pack containing a set of medical advisory leaflets & healthcare advice.

To sign up as a member for the first time

 

    1. Click on the Join Now button below
    2. Choose the type of membership you would like: Digital or postal
    3. Enter your name, address, DOB and email details
    4. Choose what description suits best regarding your relationship with Addison’s or adrenal insufficiency
    5. Give consent for us to contact you about your membership
    6. Consider making a donation to our charity to support us further or to sponsor a membership for someone that can’t afford it.
    7. Register for Gift aid if you are a UK taxpayer
    8. Enter your payment details.  We recommend choosing Direct Debit so future renewal is automatic, secure and quick. You are protected by the DD Guarantee, are still in control of your payments and can cancel your DD at any time if you wish to end your membership.
    9. Submit

Join Now


To Renew (if you are already a member, or were, in the past)

If you are a member and want to renew your membership, or were a member some time ago (recently or less recently) then you need to decide what type of membership you want to have before renewing it (see table above for the differences)

  • Postal (£35): you get your magazine and Keeping You Posted newsletters in the post, and other member news by email.
  • Digital (£33): you get your magazine and newsletters digitally by email.

Check your previous membership record (& note your membership number)

  • Click on the ADSHG Hub button below
  • Enter your email address and you will get sent a link to click to log in and see your membership record.
  • If you are happy with the membership type you have, then go ahead to step 2
  • To change your membership type, use the Edit Button.
  • Before leaving the ADSHG Make a note of your membership number – you will find it in brackets just after your name on your record.  You need it to renew.
  • Log out of the ADSHG Hub (top R).

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NB. We ask you to change your membership type BEFORE you renew.  This ensures you are charged the correct membership fee for your type of membership.   

Please do not renew and then change your membership type afterwards as it creates a lot of extra admin for the team in then offering you a refund (if you have changed from postal to digital), or charging you an additional fee (if you have changed from digital to postal).   We will receive a notification of your change of membership and will need to follow up with anyone whose fee does not match their membership type.

Renew Your Membership

  1. Click the Renew Now! button
  2. Choose RENEW MEMBERSHIP and complete the fields on the screen.
  3. Enter your membership number
  4. Choose your payment method; Direct Debit (DD), Card (Stripe) or Paypal.  We recommend choosing Direct Debit so future renewal is automatic, secure and quick. You are protected by the DD Guarantee, are still in control of your payments and can cancel your DD at any time if you wish to end your membership.
  5. That’s it, you are all done.

Renew Now!

If have difficulty renewing online with these instructions please email us at [email protected] and we will do our best to help.


Our charity is committed to supporting everyone affected by Addison’s and adrenal insufficiency where we can, and to removing obstacles to membership.  We therefore have a small number of 12m sponsored memberships available, if you are unable to afford the annual fee. 

For more information visit: Sponsored Memberships

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Updated: 26th August, 2025

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One important strand of our work as a charity is our 'Advance' strand: funding, promoting and contributing to the development of new innovations and research to improve treatments and quality of life for members of the adrenal insufficiency community. Here we share the projects we are currently supporting thanks to the generosity of our donors, members and fundraisers. Read more

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