Club Management Documents

Contained in this section are a variety of documents pertaining to club management. All files are in pdf format.

Governance Conference 2008 - 8th March 2008 at Hellidon Lakes Hotel Nr Daventry

The BGA Club Governance conference has two key elements; the Chairmans conference running from 9 am until mid to late afternoon, and three additional forums - for club treasurers, club CFI's (or their deputies) and club marketing people - that will target specific areas of club management, organisational advice and shared good practice. The BGA will of course be in 'receive' mode as well as offering lots of good practice advice, so please feel free to turn up armed with questions.

The provisional agenda is listed in the links below.

Booking

To help us with numbers (the room sizes are the limiting factor) and catering, attendees must book into whichever element of the Governance conference is most relevent to their needs. To book, please download the booking form here. This should be returned to the office with payment.

Links

Governance Conference Agenda (updated 14 Feb 08)
(includes Chairmen's Conference, Treasurers' Forum, Marketing & Membership Forum, Operations Forum, Child Protection Workshop)
Additional Information
Local Accomodation
Invitation Letter from the BGA Chairman
Booking Form (PDF) (updated 14 Feb 08)
Booking Form (MS Word) (updated 14 Feb 08)

We look forward to seeing you there on the 8th of March. Please remember to book - why not do it now?

Club Operations

Site Operations Manual

This publication provides clubs with a wealth of advice across a broad spectrum of activities associated with the safe and effective management of a BGA gliding site

Cover Page - 107kb
Contents - 117kb
01 - Introduction - 128kb
02 - Airfield Operations - 374kb
03 - Flying Records - 110kb
04 - Communications - 192kb
05 - Emergency Procedures - 328kb
06 - Alternative Launch Methods - 252kb
07 - Supervision and Control of Visitors - 195kb
08 - Health and Safety at Work Act - 257kb
09 - Other Legislation - 103kb
10 - Airfield Operators Liability Insurance - 105kb
11 - Licensing of Aerodromes - 98kb
12 - Airfield Safeguarding - 355kb
13 - Bibliography - 109kb
Appendix 1 - 116kb
Appendix 2 - 267kb
Appendix 3 - 254kb
Appendix 4 - 154kb
Appendix 5 - 115kb

Other Publications

Winch Operators Manual - 430kb

Aerotowing Guidance Notes - 1.6M

CAA LASORS (From CAA website)

Application to Conduct NPPL SLMG Training at a BGA Site

Aerodrome Safeguarding

This set of documents provides an outline of the procedure which a club should go through in order to obtain Informal Safeguarding for the airfield and to provide some planning protection against the building of nearby obstructions or the development of activities which would threaten safe operations from the airfield.

Aerodrome Safeguarding Seminar - 1.6Mb
Specimen Aerodrome Safeguarding Map for Parham - 262kb

Club Governance

Child Protection Policy - 57kb

This document describes the BGA policy in this very important area and identifies how all BGA clubs should individually develop and implement a Child Protection Policy. Further advice for club officials can be obtained from the BGA at philburtonphoto@aol.com

Disability Discrimination Act (from Sport England website)

From 1 st October, sports clubs may need to make "reasonable adjustments" in relation to the physical features of their premises to overcome physical barriers to access. Many clubs are either not aware of these changes or do not believe that they are relevant to them. For most sports clubs there will be implications and for many they will be very significant, requiring plans to be put in place to ensure adequate access is provided for disabled users and members in the future

Health & Safety Guidance Notes (UK Sport document)

This document discusses the legal responsibilities of ... clubs & societies for the safety of participants and all other people that may be affected by their activities. In particular, it highlights the requirement under UK health and safety legislation for risk assessments to be undertaken for all sports activities and events before they take place.

Community Amateur Sports Club Scheme (CASC) - 33kb

Project Funding Guide - 800kb

Accessing Funding - 33kb

Volunteers - 47kb

Data Protection - 29k

Conferences

Chairmen's Conference 2005

The report from these conference are available for download. All reports contain items of interest to all pilots - not just to club management. If club chairmen would like copies of the PowerPoint presentations used on the day, they should contact the BGA Development Officer. The reports available are:

2005 Conference
- Summary Report (PDF - 53kb)
- Full Report (PDF - 830kb)
- Full Report (high resolution) - may be required to view some slides satisfactorily (PDF - 5.2Mb)
2006 Conference
- Full Report (PDF - 528Kb)