PRIVILEGES OF THE FULL AND ASSOCIATE MEMBERS OF "AVALON" HGS

Aside from the privileges under the Charter of "Avalon" HGS (Clause 4.4.), all the full and associate members of the Society are entitled:

to gain support from the Society in the preparation and implementation of the expedition, sporting and other projects (if they correspond to the Society’s mission), including but not limited to the right to receive travel documents, recommendation letters and other documents of this kind;
? to participate in special ceremonies, expeditions and other by-invitation-only events organized by “Avalon” HGS. This being said, rules of participation in event may stipulate that a member of “Avalon” HGS may bring one non-member to by-invitation-only event;
? to use the symbols of “Avalon” HGS (including expedition and other flags, granted for a limited period of time during particular events, as well as patches and other individual symbols, worn permanently) in the order determined by Provision about the symbols of “Avalon” HGS;
? to have a priority, all other things being equal, for participating in the projects and current activities of “Avalon” HGS and “Avalon” PF (including the cases when salaries and payments of various kinds are received);
to receive annual Members Bulletin (either in its paper or electronic form, as requested);
to use information databases (paper and electronic ones, including GPS-coordinates and tracks) of “Avalon” HGS free of charge;

to receive a 50% discount on participation fees charged for sporting or other events hosted by “Avalon” HGS (races, contests, etc.);
to receive a 10% discount on participation fees charged for educational courses (language courses, survival courses, etc.) hosted by “Avalon” HGS and “Avalon” PF;
to receive a 30% discount on printed materials produced by “Avalon” HGS and  “Avalon” PF independently or in cooperation with their partners (maps, guide-books, cards, etc.);
to receive a 20% discount on travel equipment rental (tents, sleeping bags, camping mats, walkie-talkies) in “Avalon” HGS and “Avalon” PF. This being said, one person may receive a discount for renting one set of equipment (e.g. 1 tent, 1 sleeping bag, 1 camping mat, 2 walkie-talkies, etc.) at a time, all additional equipment items are rented out at a regular rate.  Exceptions to this rule are made with the special consent of the administration of “Avalon” HGS and “Avalon” PF. 
to receive a 10% discount for booking tours by "Nomadic Travel Kazakhstan" company;
to receive a 5% discount upon purchasing bicycles and 8% discount upon purchasing other articles in "Limpopo Outdoor" shop in Karaganda;
to receive a 5% discount upon purchasing goods and repairing a bicycle in "Bicycle" shop-workshop (Maslennikov's bicycle workshop);
to receive a 5% discount upon purchasing goods (GPS, radios, optics, etc) in Karaganda branch of "Bassar Electronics";
to receive a 20% discount upon purchasing goods in Nepali good online shop FromNepal.KZ;
to receive a 5% discount upon purchasing goods (bicycles, bike accessories, etc.), bicycle rental and repairing a bicycle in "World Sport" shop.
to receive a 10% discount upon purchasing goods (equipment and gear for tourists, hunters, fishermen, security services and special branches) in "Splav" shop (Almaty);
to receive a 5% discount upon purchasing goods, rent, maintenance, training and other services in Astana shop of "Extremal" network, which has a large assortment of summer and winter equipment for outdoor activities and extreme sports;
to receive a 5% discount upon purchasing products in "Healthy food" company in Karaganda, which is specialized at selling instant food-stuff, manufactured from natural and ecologically clean materials.

We gonna enlarge the list of members privileges, thus doing your participation in our activity even more mutually rewarding.