Support St John in your community.

Every day, right across the country, St John is the first to care for thousands of New Zealanders.

By becoming a St John Supporter you'll help to raise the funds to maintain and develop our services in your local area.

Anyone living in New Zealand can become a St John Supporter. It costs just $55 for a household, which covers all members in your household for a full year. As an individual, you normally pay $40 a year per person.

In return, should you ever need a St John ambulance, we'll waive the part charge that you would otherwise pay in a medical emergency (subject to the terms and conditions below). You'll receive free medical attendance and transport to hospital anywhere in New Zealand.

Even if you do not think you will need us in a medical emergency, becoming a St John Supporter is a great way to ensure you continue to have St John services in your community.

To become a St John Supporter click here or phone us toll free on 0800 St John (0800 785 646).

Terms and Conditions

New terms and conditions effective 28 April 2011

The terms and conditions for membership of the St John Supporter Scheme are as follows:

1. Guiding principles for the Scheme

The St John Supporter Scheme is a means for individuals and family households to financially support St John's charitable activities. The terms and conditions of the St John Supporter Scheme describe those St John services

The St John Supporter Scheme is not intended to be an insurance scheme. St John offers the benefit of waiving the part-charge for any ambulance attendance for medical emergencies in return for individuals and households contributing to support the community work of St John.

The St John Supporter Scheme does not allow group or company participation and so membership of the St John scheme by groups or companies will be declined. Equally, there is no life membership equivalent of the scheme.

2. Supporter subscriptions

A household can support St John for $55.00 per annum or an individual for $40.00 per annum, both include GST.

3. Payment

Subject to these conditions of membership, payment of the household or individual subscription will provide St John Supporter membership for 12 months from the date payment is received by St John. For continuous membership, renewal subscriptions of the amount of the household or individual, as the case may be, ought to be paid before expiry of a paid membership period.

St John may review the amount of the Supporter subscriptions at any time. In the event of the subscriptions being varied the variation will be effective 30 days from the date such variation is notified to the member. Notification is deemed to have occurred 30 days following the posting by St John of a letter or the transmission of an email to the member by St John advising of the variation.

St John Supporter subscriptions can be paid by credit card or by cheque (crossed "non-transferable") made payable to St John.

4. Supporter benefit

For most people, there is normally a part charge from St John for an ambulance call out to a medical emergency. The part charge arises because Government funding does not cover medical emergencies the same way it does for accidents. "Medical emergencies" means, in this context, things like a collapse, an asthma attack or a heart attack.

Under the St John Supporter Scheme, Supporters have the benefit of cover for any part charges incurred for medical emergency ambulance attendances and transports anywhere in New Zealand.

Please note:
a. membership of the St John Supporter Scheme does not entitle a Supporter to transport to or from clinic appointments, transport from one hospital to another, or discharges from hospital;
b. St John Supporter privileges do not cover non-emergency medical call-outs and St John may charge the Supporter the full cost for providing ambulance services in these circumstances (click here for details of ambulance private hire charges);
c. Supporters who receive ambulance attendance/transport in a medical emergency from other ambulance services can claim any ambulance transport costs incurred from the use of that service by contacting St John.

5. Supporter obligations

Membership of the St John Supporter Scheme is not transferable or assignable.

Household Supporters include all members of the same household living at the same address who are listed on the Supporters form. When applying for Household Supporter membership the applicant must include the name of the Principal Supporter through whom the household has membership.

It is the responsibility of the Principal Supporter to notify St John of any additions or other relevant changes to the members of the household listed on a household membership. If changes are not notified to St John, any individual living at a Household Supporter's household who is not listed on the Supporters form by the Principal Supporter will incur the charges due from emergency attendances and transport.

St John may, at its discretion, decline any application for membership or renewal of membership of the St John Supporter Scheme, or cancel any current membership on written notice to a member, if: