Please fill out this form if you are already home educating [or considering it] and you’d like to join the National Council of Home Educators NZ. If you are already a member of the National Council but you don’t know your membership number, please request it here.

Note, every week we are approached by registered teachers, teacher support personnel and other educators who are not home educating their own children. There is no benefit to these professionals or individuals in joining our organisation and we do not provide services to these groups, so please do not make a request to join us as it will be declined. Our role is to support homeschoolers and to promote home education. If we are unsure whether or not you are genuinely homeschooling or intending to, we may ask further questions or for a copy of your child’s exemption certificate.


This form is to be completed by the caregiver who delivers/facilitates/supervises [or intends to] the main day-to-day learning for the home educated child(ren) in the household.


If we are unsure whether or not you are genuinely homeschooling [or intending to/considering homeschooling], we may ask further questions or for a copy of your child’s exemption certificate.


NCHENZ communicates with members via email, the NCHENZ Forum and Facebook. When your membership has been approved you will be invited to join NCHENZ on Facebook and the Forum - it would be appreciated if you would choose one or both of these methods of communication so that you can be kept informed of special offers to members and other NCHENZ activities. If you choose neither, the only emails you will receive from NCHENZ will be the quarterly newsletter four times per year and a couple of AGM notices.


Membership to the National Council is free and has been for many years so that the organisation is available to every NZ home educator - but we do rely on donations to keep the [virtual] lights on. If you are in a position to make a donation please consider doing so. We suggest $25-$50/family per year. Our account details are Kiwibank 38-9014-0162108-00; Account name: National Council of Home Educators NZ Inc. Please include reference “donation” and if you wish, you can include your last name.



You can also ensure our emails get through by emailing us on memberships@nchenz.org.nz or add our email address to your 'safe sender' list. You will be emailed a membership number within a few days, please get in touch if you don't get it: