My Membership Online
My Membership Online
We have collected a few Q&As to help answer questions about the new system.
As we gain experience with it, we may update or extend this list.
Welcome to the Winchester Photographic Society website!
Whether you’re a current member or considering joining us, we hope you find all the information you need here.
As one of the largest and most active photographic clubs in the South of England,we welcome photographers of all levels.
We offer a diverse and engaging speaker program. Non-members are welcome to attend our Tuesday meetings; just turn up and sign in. If you decide to join, your visitor's fee will be refunded against the membership fee.
Please do contact me or any of the Committee if you have comments during the season. You can use the Contact Us form on this website.
Regards,
Bob Allen
President Winchester Photographic Society
Founded in 1923, WPS is one of the largest clubs in the southern region.
Our membership covers all levels of photographic skills, from absolute beginners who have yet to purchase a camera, to those who travel the world producing sensational images of people and places, flora and fauna.
As well as guest lecturers and competitions at our weekly Tuesday meetings, we offer workshops, tutorials and outings to help members improve their skills.
Our Tuesday meetings are 7:30-10:00pm at the Winchester Arc in Jewry Street.
We welcome all feedback about the Society: questions and comments, compliments and suggestions, and reports of problems which we will try to fix as quickly as we can.
Please use the form to contact a committee member or chose from a longer list of Society Officials.
The Society’s website is meant for our members, potential members, guests, other photographic clubs and anyone else who wants to find out who we are and what we do.
We hope this site makes it easy to find what you’re looking for and easy to use on tablets and smartphones.
We tried to preserve as much of the information as possible from the previous website, and we are still working to reorganise the content and navigation menus.
We’d love to hear what you think about it and how we can improve it. Use the Committee Contact form (under the Contact Us tab) to give feedback.
Explore the site using the navigation menu, search button, or the categories and tags links at the bottom of each page.
A very small amount of information is only visible to logged-in members.
If you are a member of WPS, you can login with your userid or your email address.
If you’ve lost your password or this is your first login, you can reset your password.
The WebCollect signon link is now under the WebCollect tab
Anyone can view the member albums/galleries.
You must be logged in to see the contents of the other pages listed here.
Some pages on this site have members-only content.
There wlil be a notice telling you if you need to logon.
Sign in then close this window
we recommend you use the WebCollect external site link
We run two exhibitions every year.
The Annual Exhibition, a public exhibition showcasing the best of our members’ work, is usually held in May in the Winchester Discovery Centre.
The Winchester National Exhibition for digital photographic images is open to all photographers in the UK. It awards BPE crowns for accepted images.
For more about our Exhibitions, use the exhibition navigation sub-menu on the pages linked below
Our Annual Exhibitions in 2020 and 2021 were held as online events.
For both exhibitions, an online gallery of successful images was displayed on the Hampshire Cultural Trust website
The 2021 award winning and accepted images are still on display in our Annual Exhibition 2021 Gallery.
We regret that we had to cancel WNE for 2020.
WNE returned for 2021 and 2022.
We have collected a few Q&As to help answer questions about the new system.
As we gain experience with it, we may update or extend this list.
On this website, on the main navigation menu, look under Membership/My Membership
Click the link to Membership system home page which takes you to:
https://www.winphotosoc.uk/membership/membership-and-events/
Go directly to http://webcollect.org.uk/winphotosoc
If this is your first time, you need to activate your membership account by setting a password.
Follow the instructions under Usage Notes below.
Much of the subscription management software on the web is not particularly aimed at the UK market.
WebCollect is UK based and has been providing membership management solutions to Clubs and Societies since 2010. They say:
We are passionate about clubs and societies, being members of over 20 organisations between us. As members, we know how hard it is to remember to take your chequebook along to pay the entry fee for the kids’ swimming gala, or buy tickets for the Christmas party. As committee members, we also know how hard the membership secretaries work to manage membership lists and collect in subs.
For us,
There is a fee but it’s affordable and the benefits are significant.
WebCollect say:
Your WebCollect pages are displayed within your website.
Members can browse through the WebCollect pages, without leaving your site. Once they get to the secure checkout pages, the page breaks out into the WebCollect site for security reasons.
Embedding the WebCollect pages within your organisation’s website provides a smooth and seamless experience for your members whilst browsing your events or membership subscriptions.
If you continue browsing the main website after you have logged into the membership system, you can view the imbedded WPS event calendar other pages. WebCollect knows you are logged on, so it will display all events, pubic and members-only.
The preferred method for payment, especially subscriptions, is a bank transfer because we incur no fees; the Paypal fee is around £2.75 for a subscription.
It’s also much easier to reconcile bank transactions than PayPal ones.
If you cannot do a bank transfer, then please contact the membership secretary who will advise how PayPal can be used for your subscription.
Usage notes from our Treasurer and Membership Secretary, Lilian Hobbs
Members should have received these by email, but we reproduce them here for convenience.
Click on the little icon top right to view in a separate window.
WPS Member Questionnaire Spring 2024 – summary of the feedback from members
Member survey 2024: summary of questions and analysis of answers
WPS Member Questionnaire Spring 2019 – summary of the feedback from members
Fill in this simple form to ask to join WPS.
A number of webcollect guides are now available here Guide to Book on an Event
WPS Member Questionnaire Spring 2016 – summary of the feedback from members and proposed actions
Welcome to the Winchester Photographic Society website!
Whether you’re a current member or considering joining us, we hope you find all the information you need here.
As one of the largest and most active photographic clubs in the South of England,we welcome photographers of all levels.
We offer a diverse and engaging speaker program. Non-members are welcome to attend our Tuesday meetings; just turn up and sign in. If you decide to join, your visitor's fee will be refunded against the membership fee.
Please do contact me or any of the Committee if you have comments during the season. You can use the Contact Us form on this website.
Regards,
Bob Allen
President Winchester Photographic Society
Founded in 1923, WPS is one of the largest clubs in the southern region.
Our membership covers all levels of photographic skills, from absolute beginners who have yet to purchase a camera, to those who travel the world producing sensational images of people and places, flora and fauna.
As well as guest lecturers and competitions at our weekly Tuesday meetings, we offer workshops, tutorials and outings to help members improve their skills.