Before you can join BOOTS, you need SU Sports Insurance. If you haven't already got this, you can get it for about £5 from the Students' Union Reception.

Once you've got that, you can join at any of our socials, or alternatively put a cheque for £5 made payable to 'SURHUL' in an envelope together with your name, address, subject department (so we can send you newsletters), year and e-mail address, and put it in the BOOTS pigeonhole, just inside the Clubs & Socs office.

Please note: You must have, or be about to get, walking boots. This is very important. If you turn up for weekend trips without them we can't take you, because this would invalidate our insurance policy and we could land up in big trouble with the Students' Union.

If you've got any queries, please e-mail Lee Hall

Members' benefits include:

• The subsidised BOOTS Christmas food fight, err, dinner
• The opportunity to buy fashionable BOOTS merchandise (not available in any shops!) such as BOOTS T-shirts with all the places we'll visit this year on the back
• The fabulous BOOTS summer BBQ
• Regular BOOTS newsletters letting you know what is going on
• Weekly drinking sessions in the Stumble
• Your picture appearing on the trips pages courtesy of Ian & Mark, the (un)official Boots photographers