The International Club is open to all local NATO ID holders and spouses. We meet monthly for Coffee and Culture mornings to share national culture and food. Members also run activity clubs, organize trips and workshops, and host charity events.

The club runs parallel to the school calendar (Sept-June), and new members are welcomed at any time.  Consider joining the club and meeting new people!  Memberships are available for purchase on this website ("Buy Memberships/Clubs" is located above on the banner), and will give you a discount on events that JFCBIC sponsors, and priority access to tickets for our Coffee and Culture Mornings.  Membership also gives you full access to join the various clubs that JFCBIC sponsors at no additional fee .  Non-members may attend events at the General Admission rate, but are not able to join the clubs without becoming a member.  

*1/2 Year Memberships at a reduced rate will go on sale on Tuesday, 4 February, 2025 and all clubs are included in the membership cost of 15 Euro*

First Responders - For events held at the ICC, or on base, we are required to have our own First Responders. If you are a First Responder, and willing to provide assistance in an emergency where you are present, please consider signing up for a First Responder admission ticket. We all appreciate your willingness to help our community in this way!

Payments - At this time, events and memberships/clubs can be paid with IBAN Bank Transfer, or in Euros at the end of our CCM's from 1200-1230, or after Board Meetings at the ICC from 1100-1130 hrs.  Payment is expected promptly after ticket signup, or at the first cash payment opportunity.  Tickets are available for sale up to 5 days before the event, unless specified otherwise in the event description.  Until JFCBIC receives your payment, your ticket is considered "pending" and is subject to cancellation.   All tickets MUST be paid in full by Noon on the Thursday prior to Coffee & Culture Mornings, or the event, unless otherwise stated in the event description.  On the Thursday before the CCM, or 5 days before the trip event, unless stated otherwise in the event description, ticket sales will close at 12 PM, and no refunds will be issued thereafter.  Those tickets that have not been paid (Cash/ IBAN pending tickets) will be cancelled and offered to people on the waitlist via email.  Those on the waitlist will have until 0900 the following morning to pay for their ticket via immediate IBAN payment only.  Remaining available tickets will then be put up for sale to anyone, with immediate IBAN payments being the only payment option. 

Raffle tickets are 3 for 5 Euros at our Coffee and Culture Mornings, and are only available for cash purchase at the event.  They cannot be paid for in advance, or by IBAN transfer.

Trips - If you have purchased a ticket for a trip with us, please bring your passport or other appropriate identification if we will be crossing country borders. Kindly be on time for bus pickup & return meeting times. Busses will leave at the scheduled time, and we cannot hold the bus for you. If you are not present, we will attempt to reach you via the phone number you provided - but alternate return travel & accommodations will be the clients responsibility if they miss the scheduled departure, or are denied boarding . Please read our Terms and Conditions carefully for all restrictions.

Clubs -   Starting with the 1/2 year memberships (Feb 2025), we are testing having our JFCBIC Memberships be all-inclusive in regards to clubs.  There is no extra fee to join a club.  Clubs will be posting their meetings/events on our private "members-only" FB page, so everyone can see when they are meeting, and can RSVP to join an event if they wish.  If you want to be notified of a particular club's events, please join the club on the "Memberships/Clubs" banner on the top of this page.

Communications - All of our group communications are done via email.  Your event tickets will be emailed to you once purchased, and the emailed code will be scanned at the door of the event for entry. If you sign up for a membership or club, you will receive an automated membership code, you do not need to worry about keeping track of that. If there are any updates or changes to an event (non-club related), you will only be notified via email. We do not collect or keep your personal data (name, phone #'s, email), so the only time you will ever get an email from us will be information pertinent to your upcoming event...please read these emails!

Waitlist - If we have sold out an event, we will often have a waitlist during our refund period. You can sign up to join in the event portal. During our refund period, if tickets become available, we will email you a notification. At the end of our refund period (5 days before the event, normally Noon on the Thursday preceding the event, unless otherwise specified in the event description), we will no longer keep or maintain a waitlist, as we will no longer be refunding/selling tickets. Private Resell/Gifting tickets (usually advertised on Facebook) will be the only way to get a ticket at that point.  At Noon on the Thursday preceding the event, people on the waitlist will be notified via email if there are any tickets available. They will be offered exclusively to people on the waitlist until 0900 Friday morning, when they will be offered to everyone.

Refunds - Refunds for events can be requested in writing to events.jfcbic@gmail.com up to 5 days before the event, unless otherwise specified in the event description (frequently Trips will have earlier refund cutoff deadlines listed). The refund period for CCM's stops at Noon on the Thursday prior to the CCM. There will be no refunds after that cutoff. Please allow up to 5 business days for the refund to be processed. JFCBIC Memberships & Club Memberships are not refundable.

Private Resell/Gifting Ticket - If you purchased a ticket and find that you can no longer attend after the refund period has ended, you may choose to privately resell or gift your ticket to another member of our community. This can be advertised on our Facebook page etc. Payment will be worked out privately between the seller and the buyer. Once you have come to a sales agreement, the seller needs to send us an email at events.jfcbic@gmail.com notifying us of the name & email address of the new ticket holder. The ticket will then be changed to the new client name & emailed to them. No tickets will be reissued to a new client until an email from the seller has been received to our email account.

Cancellations - If for some reason you can no longer attend an event that you have a ticket for, please email us at events.jfcbic@gmail.com so that we know not to expect you.

Cash Payment Tickets - No Show - If you have elected to pay cash at the door for an event, please be aware that you are still responsible for payment even if you do not attend.