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The Annual General Meeting this year is coming up (Sunday 12th June, 10:30am on Zoom), and the deadline for proposals and nominations in has now passed, so the Agenda has been finalised. The AGM will be held Zoom with electronic voting to follow, and all BCA members are entitled to attend and vote. The AGM […]
Ian Timney was a keen caver and member of the Wessex Cave Club, with whom he did a number of sporting caving trips abroad including the Gouffre Berger. Following his untimely early demise his caving friends held fund arising events in 2021 and then donated £1,500 to the Ghar Parau Foundation to distribute in his name. […]
BCA (in conjunction with BCRA) absolutely deplores the aggressive invasion of Ukraine by Russia and the subsequent war which was entirely fabricated by the Russians without justification. In a civilized society, war has no place in resolving disputes and we stand shoulder to shoulder with the Ukrainian people and in particular their caving community in […]
The British Caving Library’s carbon footprint is very small but we wanted to do our bit! Today (16/03/2022) we planted a field maple tree in the field belonging to our landlord Mick Keeling so we can all pay back a little to the environment. The tree was kindly donated by Katie Eavis. – Mary Wilde
Thanks to the work of Linda Wilson and Howard Jones in conjunction with the Youth and Development team, the British Caving Association are happy to announce the availability of a new grant for groups of young people to attend the 2022 International Congress of Speleology. Two grants of £500 are available to groups of 3 […]
To all BCA Members, The 2022 BCA AGM will be held by Zoom on Sunday 12th June at 10:30am. The Agenda and Zoom registration details will be published in due course. Please note that midnight on Monday 20th March, is the deadline for receipt by the Secretary, of proposals and nominations for submission to the […]
Following our partial victory in the BCA judicial review, our representations on CRoW access have now been lodged with the Welsh government, NRW and Defra. They make a broad case as to why caving should be treated with the same “equity” as other activities and should be recognised as coming within the right to roam […]
The European Speleological Federation FSE grants five scholarships to young speleologists for attending the 18th International Congress of Speleology ICS in Le-Bourget-du-Lac, Savoie, France (see http://uis2021.speleos.fr ). The requirements are: a) Applicants must be affiliated to an organisation being member of FSE or a karst research institute in Europe.b) Applicants must be 26 years of […]
A reminder about upcoming deadlines to apply for financial support for caving expeditions from the Ghar Parau and Mount Everest foundations. Please note the following deadlines for applications for 2022 spring expeditions:
A message from the BCA Chair about the National Geographic documentary film about the Thai cave rescue. For anyone who has not seen the “The Rescue”, I can highly recommend it even though we know the outcome, the inside story the film reveals, is an inspiration in itself and created some goose bump moments when […]
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