What is the BPA?
Page updated 30 July 2008
See also BPA
Form 224: About the BPA
The Association’s aim today is to encourage participation and promote excellence at all levels of skydiving from novice to world class competitor. Its success is such that today there are around 30 BPA Affiliated Parachute Clubs & Centres and a membership of more than 30,000. See the latest BPA Annual Report from the link on the minutes page.
Action Plan 08/09
Each year, the BPA
publishes an Action Plan matrix and accompanying
text
The Association is funded by membership subscriptions,
a contribution from sales from its franchised shop and,
currently, an exchequer grant from UK Sport. See the BPA
Accounts
pdf
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The BPA is run by an annually elected Council of 15 full members, who are the Directors of BPA Ltd. The Council controls all aspects of skydiving on behalf of the Civil Aviation Authority.
Unlike many other sports, which may suffer from fragmented and divided governing bodies, the British Parachute Association represents most UK skydivers and the majority of skydivers within the UK are members of the Association.
The control of the sport including safety, training, competitions, finance and development is administered by the full-time officials of the Association who include a National Coach and Safety Officer, a Technical Officer, Secretary-General and administrative staff.
The British Parachute Association is a Member of the of the Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom, which is the UK National Aero Club (NAC) of the World Air Sports Federation (Federation Aeronautique Internationale). The BPA nominates the UK Delegate and UK Alternate Delegate to serve on the FAI's International Parachuting Commission www.fai.org
