Patron: His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales
Full Member Renewal: 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014
Form 101 Membership renewal 2013-4
Please print off a renewal form (BPA Form 101) from the link above, complete the form and return it by post or fax to the BPA Office. Please allow up to 10 days when applying for renewal. Please do NOT return your completed form by e-mail scan, but by post or fax. Please ensure the correct postage is applied when returning your BPA Licence with your renewal forms as insufficent postage may result in a delay in receiving and processing your renewal. Thank you.
The renewal subscription is £106.80 - a reduction of £9.55 on last year, because we have been able to negotiate a lower insurance element.
The cost of joint membership is £193.86. As joint members share one copy of the Mag, both will now share the same postal address on the BPA membership database. Each joint member will of course continue to be able to have their own unique e-mail address.
Our preferred method of payment is debit card, because it costs the BPA less to process a payment by this method than by credit card or cheque.
Renewal forms will be accepted for processing only by post, fax or hand. We regret we are unable to process renewals over the 'phone or by e-mail. Renewals are available on an annual basis only - no part-year renewal is available, so no reduced subscription is payable by delaying renewal.
Third party insurance cover is included in most categories of BPA Membership (please see table below) - the insurance premium forms part of the membership subscription for Full, Temporary and Provisional Student Members. The indemnity limit of the BPA insurance policy is £5m (from 1 April 2013: £2m before that date) at BPA Affiliated Centres and £100,000 at overseas non-affiliated drop zones, excluding the USA where the policy does not apply. The policy does not provide cover for instructor negligence at non-affiliated drop zones.
Please refer to the policy summary (from linked insurance page, see below) for the benefits and exclusions.
Please note in particular that:
BPA Members' insurance includes a separate policy giving £15K death and critical injury cover whilst undertaking a parachute jump from leaving the aircraft until such time the landing is complete in accordance with the BPA Operations Manual supplemented by local Standard Operating Procedures, ie when jumping at BPA Affiliated Centres or on an organised and notified display by a BPA-Registered Display Team. The death and critical insurance policy does NOT apply outside the UK except at the BPA Affilated Centres on British bases in Germany and Cyprus.
Click here for more on insurance and travel, including a summary of BPA Members' insurance.

BPA Membership forms are available by entering the form number in the Search Forms box in the header to this page:
Form 101 Membership Renewal
Form 102 Student Membership
Form 103 Application for Full Membership
Form 104 Application for Temporary Membership (unlimited jumping for one month)
Form 105 Conversion to Full Membership
Form 106 Membership agreement
Form 107 BPA Membership Subscriptions
Form 269 Categories of BPA Membership and their entitlements

The BPA membership year runs from 1 April to 31 March the following year (12 months).
BPA Membership totals for the membership year 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2013, compared with the previous year, 2011/12:
|
|
2012/13 |
2011/12 |
Variance |
|
Full |
5,704 |
5,481 |
+4% |
|
Temporary (including Joint Services Adventurous Training) |
2,601 |
2,810 |
-7% |
|
Student Provisional |
52,035 |
48,159 |
+8% |
Weather is always a factor, sometimes a significant one, in year-on-year variance.

BPA Facts & Figures for 2012, circulated at the January 2013 AGM (pictured above).
Updated 16 May 2013