Hi all, This has been emailed to the club contact for all the BCA member clubs that are linked to Universities, however it is a time of year when University caving clubs often have a lot of change in membership so I thought I'd post here too, to increase the chances of the right people seeing...

This is a reminder for all BCA members of the importance of reporting any incident that may develop into a claim to the BCA. The BCA will then keep our insurers up to date. Please report any incidents as soon as possible, even if you think it unlikely they will develop into a claim. I have...

When the service provider uploaded all the membership data they didn't upload those whose email addresses were already in the system via the qulaifications side (to avoid creating duplicate accounts) We spent a lot of time working out which existing training users needing membership adding, and...

We did ask all the clubs to supply a location they wanted on the map - most of these seem to have been uploaded correctly but a few seem to have gone wrong somewhere in the data transfer! All clubs have had a document explaining club use of the new system, including how to change their map...

Cavingbiker - please send me your name and email address (either as a message on here or by email membership@british-caving.org.uk) and i'll check it out

Going to spam seems to be a common problem with emails generated within the system - hopefully we can spread the word in other ways so people find the emails!

The British Caving Association is pleased to announce that BCA and BCRA membership have joined the BCA training scheme on their online membership system – provided by JustGo. The following as been sent to all BCA members that we hold an email address for. Hopefully sharing here will help more...

I was going to say the same as Ari, whilst BCA no longer posts anything to member's postal addresses I believe we need postal addresses so we can satisfy ourselves, our insurers and others that we are able to identify our membership. We don't insist on email addresses or date of birth data -...

The BCA has recently been contacted and asked to share this wonderful film documenting the 1970 British Speleological Expedition to the Himalayas. It has recently been put online by a gentleman whose father was on the trip. The film is narrated by John Wilkinson, and is a fascinating story of...

Aww, thanks Josh!

Yes, I believe so.

Confirmation of the BCA membership fee increases for 2025 are now on the BCA website, along with an article about the reasons for the increase and more information about BCA spending. https://british-caving.org.uk/bca-finances-and-membership-fees/ There is also a pie chart - and who doesn't...

For anyone reading - if you don't think the BCA has your email address you can still add it at this stage for AGM voting. Email me on membership(at)british-caving.org.uk Let me know your name, BCA membership number and the email address you want adding. Please do this ASAP so we have time to...

If you are a BCA member via a club the best thing to do is ask your club if they pass on email addresses to the BCA. The vast majority of clubs do. There are about 5500 club members, and only about 400 we don't have an email address for. You can also ask me to check - pm me on here or email...

Just to add - we will shortly be selling the BCA plastic card printer - if any caving clubs or groups are interested please get in touch! (message me on here, or email membership(at)british-caving.org.uk)

Goodbye plastic cards! For years the BCA has been issuing plastic membership cards, that last for one year and then expire. This year the BCA introduced ecards, to move with the times and reduce the carbon footprint associated with printing thousands of plastic cards per year, and the packaging...

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...