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BPA Membership Survey 2011
It's survey time again! This year's shorter survey should take about 5 minutes to complete. The results will help to ensure that the BPA keeps in touch with you the membership (no identifiable personal data about individual respondents will be published). Take the survey here from 1 April - 13 May, and make your views count.
BPA Membership renewal 2011-2
Visit the members page to download the renewal form for full members to renew BPA membership for the year from 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012 inclusive.
Will you receive a Golden Ticket?
To get the BPA's 50th anniversary celebrations off to a fantastic start, the BPA Council is making available 50 free memberships.
In your April Mag you could find one of 50 Golden Tickets. If you do, you are a winner, and you will receive free membership for the year!
NB The Golden Tickets will be randomly selected by software and inserted by the mailing house.Young BPA Members fly high with Bursary Awards
The Royal Aero Club Trust (RAeCT) has awarded a total of £3,400 in bursaries to help develop the skydiving ambitions of young BPA members.
It has made awards to:
- Jakob Aungiers (19, APC)
- Holly Heathfield (18, Skydive Hibaldstow)
- Christopher Horrobin (20, RAF Weston-on-the-Green)
- Alexandra Lane (21, Skydive Weston)
- Martin Roberson (20, Skydive Weston)
- Chris Courtney (21, Skydive Weston)
- Liz Telford (21, Langar - pictured) who was awarded the Peter Cruddas Foundation Scholarship worth up to £1,000.
Congratulations to them all. Application Forms for the next round of bursaries, in 2012, open to application by young BPA members aged 16-21, will be published by thRAeCT website in September 2011.
Updated 17 May 2012
