British Parachute Association

BPA Membership renewal

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

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:

1. except for death and critical injury cover whilst jumping under the BPA Operations Manual (see below), BPA insurance does not include personal accident cover.  BPA recommends that members should take out their own personal accident insurance - various insurers offer such cover (it is not available through the BPA).  BPA strongly recommends that all members who jump overseas should take out their own personal accident travel insurance policy which includes cover for skydiving, with repatriation to the UK in the event of an emergency. It should include equipment and baggage cover. 
2. BPA insurance cover does not apply at wind tunnels
3. BPA insurance cover for non-UK residents and/or citizens performing activities outside the UK applies only at BPA Affiliated Centres or as part of a BPA-Registered Display Team.

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.

Categories of membership & their entitlements

 

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

BPA Membership statistics

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.

Membership & jumping facts & figures

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