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BPA Wing Suit Training Manual published |
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| 18 Jun - The BPA Wing Suit Training Manual has been published. It's available to download from the training manuals page. |  |
Sport England funding |
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| 26 May - Sport England is committed to the creation of a world-leading community sport system. This means focusing its investment on organisations and projects that will grow and sustain participation in grassroots sport and create opportunities for people to excel at their chosen sport. Sport England's funding programmes are open to a wide range of organisations in England. These include sports clubs, voluntary or community organisations, local authorities, colleges and universities. Click here for more from Sport England's webste, by which online application for funding may be made. * See also the other home countries' sports councils' websites on funding for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. |  |
April Council minutes published |
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| 14 May - Click here for the minutes page. | |
Membership renewal 2009-10 |
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| For membership renewal for the new BPA year from 1 April 2009, click here for a renewal form (Form 101) for existing Members. Visit the Forms page for other BPA forms. |  |
Jump for Heroes |
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| 6 Mar - Arklay Purdie is cycling to five charity skydiving events across the UK this summer as part of a 1000 mile marathon bike ride from John o'Groats to Lands End. He hopes to raise £10,000 and awareness for Help for Heroes with his Jump for Heroes campaign. His goal is to encourage others to take part in a skydiving event and do their bit for those who have done theirs. The BPA wishes Arklay well. |  |
Operations Manual now available in pdf |
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| 2 Mar - The latest (Feb 09) issue of the BPA Operations Manual is now available as a pdf of the complete manual, as well as Word documents of each section. Click here to download. |  |
AGM Blackpool 2010 - tell us what format you'd like! |
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| Original post 20 Jan, updated 6 Apr - Thanks to Members who have completed and returned the questionnaire on the format of the BPA AGM and Associated Events to be held at the Blackpool Hilton (pictured) on Saturday 16 January 2010. Your vierws will be taken into account in planning the event. The survey return date has now passed. |  |
BPA 2009 |
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| 11 Jan - The membership's elected BPA Council 2009 took office after the AGM on Saturday 10 January. The Council then elected Officers as follows: Chairman: John Smyth MVO; Vice Chairman - John Horne; Treasurer- Debbie Carter; STC Chairman - John Hitchen; Development Chairman - Craig Poxon; Competitions Chairman - Andy Scott; Communications Chairman - Martin Soulsby. Council meeting dates for 2009 are, at the BPA Office in Leicester LE2 9TF at 1830: Tues 17 Feb, Wed 22 Apr, Tues 23 Jun, Tues 18 Aug, Tues 13 Oct, Tues 8 Dec (after EGM). On subscriptions, the insurance element of the BPA membership subscription for the year from 1 April 2009 will be lower than in the current year 2008/9. The AGM authorised the Council to finalise the arrangements for insurance without a further general meeting. Once the cost of the insurance element is confirmed, it will allow Council to publish BPA subscription rates for the membership year beginning on 1 April 2009. Watch this space in late January. The Chairman announced at the AGM that the Council has awarded Tony Knight the BPA Jim Crocker Trophy, in recognition of his Outstanding Contribution to Sport Parachuting. |  |
Storm go Gold |
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| Team Storm lift the World Championship for 4-way women's Formation Skydiving in Maubeuge, France, on 14 August 2008. Pictured left to right are team members Hannah Betts, Claire 'Sparky' Scott, Kate Stephens, Sarah Smith, freefall videographer Gary 'Swoop' Wainwright, and coach Dan BC. Photo courtesy of Stijn Janssens. |  |
Message of congratulation to the team from John Smyth, BPA Chairman |
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| Absolutely superb!My warmest congratulations to all involved. This is a magnificent achievement especially when you consider the immense pressure the Team were under knowing it was being videoed and broadcast live across a continent, notwithstanding the fact they had already achieved the formations in practice jumps. joh smyth OutstandingI spoke to Andy Scott about an hour before take off and a few minutes after landing. They were all absolutely elated and really encouraged in the knowledge that the whole of the BPA were behind them. This is particularly important as all the skydivers in this ad were British BPA Members. I believe it will be linked into BJ Worth's ads for Honda with US jumpers.Let's all take a little time to reflect on the fact that this was a live transmission, Air to Air, that was watched by an estimated 2.5m viewers on Ch 4. I believe it shows the potential for promoting our sport in competition if we can just find the right format. Twenty years ago no-one would ever believe snooker could attract such vast live audiences, but look at it now. It is certainly something I shall be taking forward at IPC to seek to develop a strategy over the next 5 years using this ground-breaking TV ad, made by Brits, as a prime example.In the meantime, on behalf of the Council and the whole Membership, we send all the team our heartiest congratulations. We are so proud of them for making this ground-breaking achievement. |  |
British skydivers make history with live tv ad |
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| British skydivers have made television history. The first ever live advertisement on British tv featured a live skydive in which the letters H-O-N-D-A were spelt out in formation. The ad ran on Channel 4 at 2010 on Thursday 29 May 2008. Click here to see the ad on the Honda website. Its part of the campaign for the new Honda Accord, which has the theme 'Difficult is worth doing' |  |
Airsports tv |
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| airsports.tv is a new Internet TV channel featuring all the best action from the world of competitive air sports - including the official World Championships and World Cups. It's the only site in the world which has exclusive access to the top events in air sports. airsports.tv is owned and operated out of London by Flying Aces Ltd who are the media partner of the FAI |  |
Membership survey results |
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| Click here for the results of the BPA's first online Membership Survey. Thanks to the 372 respondents. The survey will help the Council and its Committees to plan for the sport. Members have said it's time to update the BPA website with a facility for online renewals. The Council plans to launch a new website later this year, and to phase in more online services including renewals in a four-stage programme. | |
Welcome to the new BPA website |
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| 3 Nov 08 - This new website stemmed from the original concept by our competition winner Tom Urbanski in conjunction with our new web hosting and and database company Hayes Computing Solutions Ltd (Hcoms), the Communications Committee and a lot of work and assistance from the BPA office.The key difference between the existing website and this new one is not so much the cosmetic sprucing-up, but the fact that the new website has hidden depths in respect of a new and advanced database management system that will be exploited as we move to the second phase of site development which will include on-line membership renewal and on-line voting. The web pages will, on a regular basis be changed and revised, thereby keeping it 'alive and fresh' along with other innovations which will be developed by the Communications and Development Committees. It is important to receive feedback, and would therefore ask you to respond with any constructive criticism or even praise to skydive@bpa.org.uk |  |
