International Pen Friends (IPF)®

Online Application Form for Student Service

We will send the list of addresses of penfriends to the person in charge. The name and address of each student will also be passed to 10 other club members during the year.

Please Note: To participate in the service for students and youth groups a minimum of 10 students must be enrolled. (You can enrol fewer than 10 students, but you will need to pay the application fee for 10 students.)

The printable application form can be found here.

Please complete all fields carefully.

Contact details:

* person in charge
*

* The lists of penfriend addresses will be sent to this email address. Your email address will not be disclosed to any third parties. See Privacy Policy.

Do your students require male or female correspondents or both?

Tick whichever items are of general interest to your students

Tick any items your students would be interested in exchanging

Please tick AT LEAST 8 COUNTRIES in which your students would like to have penfriends.

We always do our best to match your students' country requests, but there may also be other countries on the pen friend lists.

AFRICA:
THE AMERICAS:
ASIA/PACIFIC:
WESTERN EUROPE:
EASTERN EUROPE:
MIDDLE EAST:

Student Details

Please complete a section below for each student. It is important that the correct year of birth, gender and postal address are stated in each instance. If you wish to enrol more students than the minimum of 10, please copy the sections as many times as needed.

Please note that each student must choose English as one of the languages they wish correspond in. The other languages they may choose are French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

Service Fees

The service fee per student is 5 EUR (or 4.50 GBP or 6 USD or equivalent in any currency).

(Please Note: To participate in the group service a minimum of 10 students must be enrolled. Fewer than 10 students can be enrolled, but in this case the application fee for 10 students must be paid.)
Tick any additional services required £ US$
7€ £6 $8
6€ £5 $7
* The instructions on how to access the magazine online will be emailed to you.
**The booklet will be sent to you as a PDF file together with the students' address lists to the email address you have provided on this application form.

Please select your method of payment:

PayPal.me: IPFWorld (opens in a new window)
Attention!

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY:

You will not be automatically redirected to the PayPal website.

To make the payment, please click on the Paypal.me link above to pay through PayPal. Alternatively, please log in to your PayPal account ⟹ click "Pay or send payments" ⟹ choose the "Pay for goods or services" icon ⟹ give the recipient's email as payments@ipfworld.com and enter the correct amount for the service(s) required in the currency you wish to pay in. To complete the transaction, please click "Send Payments Now" and you are done.

Please make one payment for the total amount!

If the payment is being made by another person than the teacher or group leader whose name has been given on this form, please give the group leader's name in the "Add a note" section so that the payment can be associated with your application form. Thank you!

Bank Transfer through: (Euro/SEPA zone only *)

*) A SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) payment can be made through a bank located in any EU country or in Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino or Vatican City. If paying through a UK bank or a bank in a non-SEPA country, please add 7 EUR or equivalent to the total to cover the banking charges (your bank may also charge you a transaction fee). All banking charges must be paid by the group leader.

If the application fee is being paid by a person other than the teacher or group leader, please give the group leader's name in the message field when making the payment so that we can associate the payment with the correct application.

There is no need to send us a receipt of the payment. The application form will be sent for processing as soon as the payment is cleared.

Cash notes (no coins please!) by mail to:

Please see the Service Fees section and our List of accepted currencies (both open in a new window).

You are welcome to submit your students' application form online and send the fee in the mail if none of the electronic payment methods are suitable for you. Please remember to enclose a note with your name and address so that the payment can be associated with the correct application.

International Reply Coupons

You can also pay with International Reply Coupons (IRC) that can be purchased at the post office. Please use the following conversion rate: 1 IRC = 3.05 EUR. Please send the IRCs to the address shown above.

Please note: We're sorry, but we are unable to accept cheques or money orders due to high processing costs.

Important! Please review all the information before submitting the form.

P.S. We apologise we cannot process applications received without payment.