I'm pleased to see (possibly thanks to some gentle nudging) that all of the missing minutes including the 2023 AGM and six 2023 Council Meetings (and also a March 2024 Council Meeting) are now uploaded on the BCA website. Thank you Allan, better late than never :) Looking forward to seeing a...

To save me retyping everything you can read my thoughts on why the BCA is important in the October 2019 newsletter (page 8): https://british-caving.org.uk/documents/issue-36-oct-2019/?tmstv=1714496502 Alas, my involvement in BCA was very brief and of dubious success :( However, as someone who...

Thanks Kay, nicely demonstrated. Allan: Could the missing documents (which by my reckoning are all Council minutes since February 2023, and the AGM minutes from 2023) be posted here on UKCaving as an interim measure while your new IT team are working on the BCA website? It would be good to give...

I sympathise, but surely there must be someone within BCA who can post a couple of PDFs on the BCA's website? I wonder if anyone on here can help suggest some alternative ways that the BCA could share their documents with the wider caving community that doesn't require any particular IT...

Thanks Allan, looking forward to seeing more details on the agenda items in due course. Also, looking forward to receiving clarification of where we (BCA members) can access documents for BCA Council meetings since February 2023, and the minutes for the 2023 AGM. It concerns me that these have...

Thanks ChrisB :) I can only see a summary table of the agenda items there: Question to Allan: Is that it? Or am I still missing something? I suppose this does fulfil the constitutional requirements for an AGM agenda, but I guess I had kind of expected a slightly 'meatier' document with more...

Where on the website please? Looking here: https://british-caving.org.uk/about-bca/bca-council/official-documents/ The most recent documents I can see is the 2023 AGM agenda (but no minutes from that), and the last Council meeting minutes are February 2023. As well as the 2024 AGM agenda...

Hats of to anyone willing to undertake Southern Stream Passage for the purposes of digging - doing it each way on a daytrip down to Priory Road several years ago was quite enough for me. It's not particularly difficult... just very long and boring! Really pleased to hear work is still ongoing...

Wow, always pleased and surprised to see some North York Moors enthusiasts wondering about progress :) The lack of report on this recently sadly means progress has not been as dramatic as we had hoped. At the last report, we mentioned that we were about 4m down, beneath the bottom of a shallow...

It depends on how you are calculating your average. But assuming you are doing it by the mean (i.e. the sum of all the club membership numbers divided by the number of clubs in that dataset) then I'd guess at around 35 members on average. However if you are calculating by median, which...

I am not a vegan (I'm vegetarian), but I absolutely love the Greggs vegan sausage roll. Moreover, I'm happy to support a product made from Quorn, which is sustainable, healthy, and manufactured locally (Stokesley in North Yorkshire). Last year, I tried scrambled tofu at a fancy café, just out...

As the original author of CNCC's Ease Gill Caverns description (originally for Eurospeleo 2016), sadly, I just didn't have sufficient familiarity with The Chasm or Crap Trap to include them with sufficient confidence, other than the loose statement to encourage people to research and explore...

A very generous offer indeed Graham! I really enjoyed reading this a couple of years ago, and loved the format (lots of very short stories of caving memories). It is very relatable, and beautifully produced too. My advice to anyone who hasn't got a copy yet... email Graham ASAP :)

Thanks for posting this, Inglesport :) Having recently purchased a new Aven harness (gutted that the Fractio is no longer available), I contacted Petzl, and they replied really quickly to say that they would add me to a list for sending them out, and they will start posting them early...

I started caving for one reason only… because I had a friend, who I was rather hoping would become more than just a friend, who kept disappearing off down caves at weekends. As an excuse to spend more time with him, I asked if he would take me on a caving trip, even though I knew absolutely...