Membership of Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa/NZ Childcare Association (NZCA) is open to early childhood education services, individuals and students enrolled in the Association’s teaching programmes.
To register or renew your NZCA membership
Use one of the following:
Make your payment by credit card online
Pay by cheque or bank deposit by downloading and posting a copy of our membership application form (pdf, 100 kb)
Request a membership information pack to be posted out to you.
Email: membership@nzca.ac.nz or phone 0800 CHILDCARE (0800 244 532)
Membership subscription fees
Centre membership for 2010
Half-yearly fee of $300 (inc. GST) per license plus a one-off joining fee of $113.
Centre membership is our premiere membership package. This package is available for centre owners, licensees and managers. Our centre package provides the following benefits -
- Regular sector news updates - direct to your inbox
- Freephone 0800 advice and support whenever you need it
- Our quarterly full-colour membership magazine Iti Rearea
- Access to the NZCA Employer Handbook
- Access to our Guide to Managing Change in Your ECE Service
- Unlimited discounted conference tickets for you and your employees
- Access to our great discount schemes, save your annual membership fee and more every year
- Members only website with employer advice, ECE meeting reports and news updates
- Political advocacy and representation, advocating for high quality ECE.
Click here to download our brochure (pdf) outlining why you should become a centre member of NZCA
Individual membership for 2010
Annual fee $112.50 (inc. GST)
The NZCA individual membership package is open to anyone with an interest in early childhood education. This low cost membership package is perfect for individual ECE teachers, academics or anyone who cares about high quality ECE. The individual membership package includes the following benefits -
- Regular sector news updates - direct to your inbox
- Our quarterly full-colour membership magazine Iti Rearea
- Discounted conference ticket
- Members only website with employer advice, ECE meeting reports and news updates
- Political advocacy and representation, advocating for high quality ECE.
Click here to download our brochure (pdf) outlining why you should become an individual member of NZCA.
Please note - Individual memberships are non-transferable. An individual membership cannot be transferred to another individual under any circumstances, nor can an individual membership be held by an organisation.
Discounted individual membership for NZCA students 2010
Annual fee $33.75 (inc. GST)*
The discounted student membership package is for students currently undertaking initial teacher education programmes with Te Tari Puna Ora o Aotearoa / NZ Childcare Association. The student membership package includes -
- Regular sector news updates - direct to your inbox
- Our quarterly full-colour membership magazine Iti Rearea
- Discounted conference ticket
- Members only website with employer advice, ECE meeting reports and news updates
- Political advocacy and representation, advocating for high quality ECE.
Pro-rata rates are applied on the first year of joining for centre and individual memberships. The subscription period is from January to December.
Renewals are invoiced once a year in the final quarter and are for the next year commencing 1st January.
*Student membership is only available for students who are currently enrolled in NZCA's teacher education programmes
Questions about membership
For all queries regarding our membership services please contact:
Manager Membership Services - Gillian Dodson
Email: members@nzca.ac.nz
Phone: 0800 244 532 ext 815
Fax: 04 473 7295