Following the British Caving Association’s AGM on Saturday, BCA members can now vote in the online ballot, open until 23.59 on Sunday 26th June 2022. Full instructions on how to case your vote can be found on the BCA website. If you missed the AGM but want to watch this before casting your vote, this…
The results of the ballots following the recent AGM have now been announced and the results of the elections are as follows: Chair: the winning candidate is Russell Myers Secretary: the winning candidate is Allan Richardson Training Officer the winning candidate is Steve Gray Individual Member representatives: the winning candidates are Nigel Atkins and…
The results are in! No, we don’t mean the results of the US elections, we mean the results of the 2020 BCA AGM voting and ballot. Before the BCA’s recent online AGM it was announced that all elections and subsequent ballot on proposals and constitutional amendments would be dealt with by electronic voting after the…
At 6pm on Saturday 1st November BCA’s webservers were taken offline for essential maintenance by their web hosting provider. This included the voting website for the online ballot, and so BCA have extended the voting deadline by 24 hours to midnight tonight, Sunday 1st November (23:59, 01/11/2020). BCA will also delay the results release by…
The BCA Newsletter 37 – February 2020 is now available. Editor David Rose has put out a bumper edition which is both visually attractive, thanks to laying out work by Matt Ewles and Gary Douthwaite, and packed full of BCA news and other features. There are two main feature articles – a piece by Andy…
In this newsletter … Caves and Karst of the Yorkshire Dales – volume 2 This book has now been reduced in price to £25. It can be ordered online, along with volume 1. There is a 20% discount for BCRA members, and postage is free. Cave & Karst Science 46(3) and CREGJ 108 These publications…
If you’ve received an email from Matt Ewles, BCA secretary, entitled BCA Ballot – Vote Now, you may have been a little surprised at the lack of information about the changes. So what are we being asked to vote for? Previous ballots have been criticised with claims that BCA failed to supply members with sufficient…
We have been asked by Matt Ewles, the BCA Secretary to publish the following statement from BCA Council:
The BCA Chairman Andy Eavis has announced the ballot result today via the BCA’s Facebook page. In summary all four proposals have been approved by the ballot of members. Andy states that it had been planned to announce the results at the BCA council meeting on Saturday 7th October, however the executive decided it…
We’ve been approached today by Ashford Price and asked to publish the following statement. Ashford Price owns land in South Wales under which a number of well known caves can be found, and is also a BCA individual member. The statement makes clear that the BCA’s actions and the ballot underway now does risk…
