The BCA (along with the BCRA) supports and helps fund the...

Thanks Emma and Bill!

Thanks for the photos! If anyone has a nice one of a caving hut please share it! Also if you have any photos or just ideas for an image that could be used to represent non-caving membership please post here :)

You may, or may not, be aware but BCA and BCRA membership will soon by migrating to a professional online membership management system. This will hopefully bring advantages such as members being able to update their own details and the ability to automatically pay annually by direct debit (if...

The BCA has an artificial cave that available to hire for events for a small fee (£25 per event). If you have an event and would like to promote caving please get in touch - email artifficial.cave@british-caving.org.uk Enquiries about any sort of event welcome - Caving club annual dinners...

I have gender data for the last 3 years (since I took over looking after membership) We don't have gender data for all our membership - there is a space for clubs to provide it - and it is useful for tracking membership trends. But as we don't actually *need* to know we don't insist on it. For...

Most of the over 90s are non-caving members but three have joined BCA as caving members! Although that doesn't necessarily mean they go underground, as participating in surface walks/ projects requires caving membership......

I took over looking after membership in Spring 2021 and to my knowledge no-one has analysed the membership data in a formal way in that time. But I agree it is an important thing to keep an eye on, and spot any trends. I'd be interested to see your reports :-) The 2023 data show 28.9% of...

No clubs currently have exactly 42 members, but Don't Panic, I am sure a club will recruit some more soon and land on 42........

It is actually more like 3% of BCA members are under 18. These numbers only include club members - we have quite a few individual members that are under 18. (I am a member via a club, but sign my 3 kids up as individual members each year) If you are interested in age distribution here is a...

Thanks for all the guesses - lots of interesting answers and thought gone into it :-) I am sure you are all on the edge of your seat to find out the answer? To keep everyone happy I will tell you lots of different averages. The mean number of members per caving club is 48 The median number of...

Yup - 140 member clubs plus 7 access controlling bodies and 10 associate clubs. Also another 10 member clubs who were 2023 members and will hopefully renew soon.

Ops, meant to qualify average and forgot! I was thinking mean but I will post the mean and median answers tomorrow :)

So far in 2024 140 member clubs have renewed their membership of BCA. Answers below - How many members do you think the average UK caving club has? (Include all members, caving, non-caving, and those club members who get their BCA membership as an individual or via another club) No prize for...