The British Caving Association

For the first time BCA has joined together with BCRA to host a Party Weekend based at the Rotary Centre, Castleton from 14-16 June 2013 . The weekend combines a late bar, hog roast, band and disco with some introductory cave science workshops and the BCA AGM. The venue is suitably remote and has ple...

BCA Statement on Casterton Fell Access Please distribute as widely as possible The Council of Northern Caving Clubs has a long-standing agreement with the landowners of Casterton Fell that gives generous access arrangements to all BCA Member Clubs. Unfortunately on Saturday, 18th August, a day when...

Just a note that BCA has just published its latest booklet "Weather and its Effects on Caves: a Guide for Cavers" as a free download from the BCA website . This comes hot on the heels of "The Hydrology of Goyden Pot and Manchester Hole", also available from the BCA website . I ca...

Earlier in the year the BCA Insurance Manager consulted member clubs about the desirability of increasing BCA’s Third-Party liability cover limit from £2 million to £5 million. A clear majority of the clubs who responded were in favour of this increase. Therefore, BCA Council today agreed to extend ...

All Direct, CIM Plus, Club and Associate members of BCA should receive this AGM notification by post this week. Further information on the AGM, including Agenda and Officers' Reports will be available posted on the AGM page of the BCA website as they become available.

1 Week to go until the deadline for receipt of your ballot papers.

Keep 'em coming!

Paper copies should now have arrived with all Individual Members. If they have not, it is probably because the information we hold for you is incorrect. If you suspect this might be you, please contact Glenn Jones, our Membership Administrator (details on Contacts page of website). Clubs should be r...

Paper copies should now have arrived with all Individual Members. If they have not, it is probably because the information we hold for you is incorrect. If you suspect this might be you, please contact Glenn Jones, our Membership Administrator (details on Contacts page of website). Clubs should be r...

BCA Newsletter 13 is now available here.

Paper copies will be on their way to members shortly, along with a Constitutional Amendments Ballot Paper. For more information on the latter, see BCA website.

As part of the ongoing work to streamline procedures in BCA, Council has made several proposed amendments to the Constitution. These were agreed unanimously at the AGM in March and now need to pass through the final stage of ratification: a postal ballot of all members. Along with Newsletter 13 , al...

The downloadable version is now available from here.

Please note that the password is bcahandbook to try to avoid the e-mail addresses being collected.

The BCA Handbook 2010-11 has been posted this afternoon to all Uk-based Direct Individual, CIM+, Group and Club members. The foreign ones will go on Tuesday when I get to a Post Office.

The downloadable version will also hopefully be available on Tuesday.

The Agenda for the 2010 BCA AGM can now be downloaded from the BCA website by following the link from the front page or by clicking here . A paper copy will be with all DIMs, Clubs, Access Bodies & Associate Members within the next fortnight. Hope to see as many people as possible on 20th March ...

BCA Newsletter 12 can now be downloaded from the BCA website.

Paper copies should be arriving with DIMs and Clubs now.

The April and July Cambrian Caving Council Newsletters are now available on the CCC website.

http://www.cambriancavingcouncil.org.uk/publications.html