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You do not have to be a member of the BCRA to take part in its activities or to purchase its publications. However, if you do want to join BCRA, please note that membership of BCA is handled as an 'option' to our parent body, the British Caving Association.

The shortcuts, below, will take you directly to application forms for membership and subscription to BCRA periodicals.

Shortcuts: Subscribe to BCRA publications | Join BCRA or renew your membership

For more general information, including lists of fees and benefits please see the BCA Membership Information pages. Our membership benefits vary slightly depending on the category of membership. Individual members receive our periodicals Speleology (3 per year) and Cave & Karst Science (3 per year), as well as reduced admission fees to meetings, a discount on BCRA publications and a discount on the BCA travel insurance scheme. BCRA membership fees are now handled by BCA but please scroll down for some 'historical' information on...

For historical interest, also see... The BCRA / BCA 'Road Map', and info about BCA public liability insurance 103K PDF (Speleology 5, pp42-43)


Gift Aid Scheme
  Members of BCRA can assist the Association by completing a Gift Aid declaration that allows us to recover the tax paid on the BCRA element of your subscription. Please send us a signed declaration using the text below. You can download a plain text version by clicking here  
   
GIFT AID DECLARATION
Registered charity 267828

I full name of full postal address want the British Cave Research Association (the charity) to treat all membership payments I have made since 6 April 2000 and all membership payments I make from the date of this declaration until further notice as Gift Aid donations. I know that I must pay an amount of income or capital gains tax at least equal to the tax the charity reclaims on my donations in the tax year.
 
  Legacies provide funding for research projects. Can you help our science programme by means of a donation or by inclusion of a legacy in your will? As the Association is a charity, both these methods of giving are tax efficient.  

BCA v. BCRA Membership Categories
 

This table explains the relationship between BCA and BCRA membership categories.

 
 
If you have previously benefited from
BCRA Membership
in a category in this column, then to continue to receive the benefits of this membership category, you should join BCA in the category shown in the next column.
You should obtain
BCA Membership
in the category shown below, and then pay the appropriate additional fee to join BCRA.
Notes
Personal: Individual Direct Individual Member (DIM)  
Personal: Joint DIM / Joint member  
Personal: Honorary BCRA honorary members will be enrolled as BCA-DIMs Constitutionally, BCRA Honorary Membership confers all benefits of Individual Membership without payment of subscription, and is conferred for life.
Personal: Associate --- BCRA Associate Membership is no longer available
Personal: Junior --- BCRA Junior Membership is no longer available
Corporate: Club Club BCA will accept Club Membership from overseas-based organisations, but you are advised to enquire, in order to ascertain the most appropriate membership category for the club and its members.
Member of a BCRA Member Club Club Individual Member (CIM) BCA CIMs may not join BCRA directly. If you require BCRA membership, you should upgrade to a DIM or you should subscribe to publications as a non-member
Corporate: Commercial or
Corporate: Affiliated
Associate Member BCRA Commercial and Affiliated membership currently confer equivalent benefits
 

Standing Order Payments to BCRA
  Standing Order Payments

BCRA has not accepted standing orders as a valid method of paying membership since 2006. This was stated in our newsletters and renewal notices, where we announced that standing orders that continued to be paid in 2006 would be treated as donations to the Association, without granting entitlement to any benefits of membership.

However, some standing orders continue to be paid to BCRA. Unfortunately, because of the nature of standing order payments we are unable to cancel these payments ourselves, nor are we able to trace them via the issuing bank. Therefore, unless you specifically wish to continue to make a donation to BCRA, we should be grateful if any members who are still paying a standing order would contact their bank to arrange for its cancellation.

For the further avoidance of doubt, please note that if you wish to join BCRA or to subscribe to Cave & Karst Science you must make a payment to the British Caving Association (BCA). Any standing order payment that you continue to make to BCRA cannot be used to pay for your BCRA membership or services and it will be treated as purely a donation to the Association.

 



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