The British Caving Association

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Hi Barry, There was a problem yesterday. The BCA webserver was under considerable load because of the interest in the British Cave Rescue Council site due to the Thailand cave rescue. The BCRC site is hosted on the BCA Server. I moved the BCRC site to a separate server to isolate the problem. The BC...

The access arrangements for Singing River have changed slightly. The previous owner Mrs Rignall recently passed away. She was always very helpful to cavers and will be very much missed. Our condolences and commiserations to the family and friends. Rather than calling at the house can you please send...

The BCA AGM will be held at Parkend, Forest of Dean, commencing tomorrow (3 June 2018) at 10:30 am. Papers for the meeting, including officer's reports, can be downloaded from the BCA web site: http://british-caving.org.uk/wiki3/doku.php?id=general_meetings:2018_agm If you are intending to come then...

I've posted an article on GDPR for Caving Clubs on the BCA website.

It concentrates on the practical steps a typical caving club needs to take to implement GDPR.

If you have any feedback please let me know.

The 2018 Annual General Meeting of the British Caving Association will be held at: The Dean Field Studies Centre, Parkend Forest of Dean GL15 4JA on Sunday 3rd June 2018 at 10:30am Please follow this link to see the agenda and motions for discussion: http://british-caving.org.uk/wiki3/doku.php?id=ge...

BCA Newsletter 33 - May 2018 has just been published. If you have signed up to receive newsletters by email, you should already have yours. The online version will appear in a few days. Highlights include: - Editorial - BCA AGM - Attracting Young Cavers and Age Limits - Chairman's Piece - General Do...

SUMMARY: the BCA server does not provide a default setting for errordocument , which has lead to arcane problems when trying to map HTTP to HTTPS. Until this is fixed, you may wish to to add the following lines to your .htaccess file. # Configure error documents # ------------------------- ErrorDoc...

BCA Newsletter 31 has just been published. If you have signed up to receive newsletters by email, you should already have yours. Alternatively you can view it online by following the link. If you haven't received it via email and would like to get them this way in future, click here and follow the ...

The recent ballot on changes to the constitution closed last Saturday 23rd September and the votes were counted this Tuesday 26th September. I am delighted to say that the ballot was a resounding success, nearly 50% of groups voted, and also a reasonable proportion of individual members, by far the ...

The ballot paper has been distributed by email on 21 august or post on 23 August. If you have not received your ballot paper by 1 September then please contact the BCA Secretary. Likewise if your email system is marking the attachments as ‘phishing’ or worse and you are not prepared to risk opening ...

A problem with the email address link in the covering email has crept in. The best thing to do is to click or cut and paste this email address below or retype it by hand rather than click on the link. agm2017@bca-vote.online The reason is the hyphen. It looks like a normal hyphen but isn't. :oops: T...

The BCA Ballot papers are being emailed right now. If BCA doesn't hold you email address you will receive the ballot papers by post during the week. Please check your spam folder if you are expecting them by email and they don't arrive. You can check the contact details BCA has for you at BCA-Online