Full members pay a membership fee to the club.
It fits in because you participate actively at the local level. By in large, it is the local clubs who educate, promote, and render assistance to jugglers. And that at a level that is accessable to anyone who cares to participaten not just people who can afford to attend an IJA festival. In a very real sense, the affiliates are making the IJA's mission statement happen. The IJA should celebrate that local contribution to its mission by waiving or substantially reducing the requirement of an additional membership fee to the IJA just for the right to attend the festival.