To Join the NCT

Step 1
Click here to go to the National Childbirth Trust website for information on joining, or call our dedicated membership helpline on 0870 990 8040.

Step 2
If you want to be invited to a postnatal tea to meet other new parents, please contact postnatal@claphamnct.com, with details of your due date.

To have access to all the support, information and services the NCT provides, you need to become a member.

As a charity, NCT relies on donations and membership fees in order to continue its work in order to offer every parent a positive experience of pregnancy and life with their new baby. If you have found the website helpful, please join us so we can help others.

Membership costs just £39 for the first year (£36 for Direct Debits), £29 (£26 for DD) for second and subsequent years, and covers two people living at the same address.

Or perhaps your daughter, friend, colleague, sister or partner is pregnant? You can buy an NCT membership as a gift, which will help her find out more about having a baby, while making new friends.

Discounted membership - We offer reduced subscription of £1 per annum for those entitled to free prescriptions as a result of low income or age (ie under 16).


Why should you join the National Childbirth Trust?
Just a few, of the many, good reasons:

  • Meet new friends through your local NCT branch — We have a network of branches throughout the UK. So wherever you live there’ll be one near you where you can meet other parents who are going through the changes of having a baby.
  • Receive regular magazines from your branch — The branch magazines are packed with local information, details of what’s on in your area and groups you and your baby can go to, as well as all your local NCT branch activities, events and Nearly New Sales.
  • Have the right to vote at our AGM — As a member of the NCT you can help influence the future direction of the charity by using your vote at the AGM.
  • Have representation at government and local policy levels — The NCT is seen and respected as a large user organisation and represents the needs and priorities of parents across the UK, at both government and local policy levels, to ensure continued improvements in relevant services.
  • Receive NewGen, our membership magazine, four times a year— Our lively and informative magazine contains accurate, well-researched articles on a range of subjects from pregnancy through to life as a parent.
  • Know that your membership is helping the NCT— Your membership fee will help us continue to deliver services and support other parents.