To become a member, you firstly need to register on the BPCA website. Once you've registered, your logged in homepage will list the various membership tiers you can join. Simply select the membership tier you wish to sign up to and complete the online payment. Upon payment being successful, your membership will be valid and you will be immediately covered by any insurance policy and other member benefits assigned to the membership tier. 

If you try to register and the system informs you that your email address is already in use, then it will be the case that you have an account already with us. In such case, simply login or use the forgotten password link and a new password will be emailed to you, allowing you access back into your previously registered account.

Absolutely,  Whilst your LTA Accredited insurance covers you to coach Padel , it does not include Tennis and Pickleball and also places restrictions on what kind of lessons you can deliver. BPCA insurance has no such restriction and aside from bolstering up your LTA accreditation insurance with BPCA insurance cover, BPCA have also carefully selected the most useful member benefits in their packages, including up to 20% off BPCA merchandising.

Yes, the BPCA National Conference is available to non-members. However, members get a sizeable discount voucher off the price of the conference making it worthwhile to join, especially with the added benefit of insurance and other member benefits that BPCA membership provides.

If you ordered your membership, you will have purchased your membership as an annual subscription with your membership auto-renewing each year. This has been set so that you are not uncovered in terms of your insurance should you miss your renewal date. However, cancelling the auto-renew feature is easy, once logged in on this BPCA website, simply click 'Settings' on your logged in dashboard, and the very bottom option gives you the option of cancelling the auto-renew feature. Please note once auto-renew is cancelled, it can't be re-enabled, you'll have to let your membership expire and then renew it again manually after expiry.

You can generate a membership certificate from the 'Files' section of your logged in homepage (dashboard). This certificate can be printed and displayed as required. 

Yes, but it's a digital membership card, not a physical card (we're environmentally conscious here at BPCA). After subscribing to a membership category, you can download your membership card to the 'Wallet' app on your phone (assuming you're using an Android or an Apple phone) from your logged in homepage (member dashboard). Your membership card lives in the 'Wallet' app of your phone (a native app on Android and Apple phones) and will disappear automatically if your membership expires or update itself with a new expiry date if the membership is renewed.

You can upgrade your membership to a higher tier, which for now is a manual process of paying a top up fee and being assigned the higher membership tier (please contact us at support for this). You can't however downgrade your membership tier as the higher tier member benefits are assigned upon the membership being activated.

As an independent association for coaches, BPCA accept any recognised coaching qualification in the UK and overseas that has trained you to deliver coaching services individually and/or in a group. You must act within the training parameters of your highest coaching qualification in order for our public liability insurance to cover you. Please check with us if your highest coaching qualification is not a BPCA, LTA, RPT, or other such international coaching qualification so that we can be sure that your less mainstream coaching qualification is valid with us.

No, you aren't required to have DBS, safeguarding and first aid training within the last 3 years to join the BPCA. Our linked coaching insurance policies don't require DBS, safeguarding and first aid qualifications within the last 3 years either. However, to become a BPCA member and be eligible for its insurance policies, you must have had a DBS, passed safeguarding training and passed Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) at some previous stage in your coaching development (typically, you will have achieved these as part of being granted your coaching qualification initially).

If you've been a member with us previously, you will need to register with us again to reinstate your account.  If you're unsure whether you're registered with us, simply try logging in with your usual email and password.  Always feel free to contact us for support and to check your current registration status.

From the login page (https://bpca.co.uk/login/) you need your email that you registered initially with the BTCA and password (created at the time you created your BPCA account or updated password if later changed). If you've forgotten the password, then simply press the 'password reset' link from the login page (https://bpca.co.uk/login/).

You'll then get a password reset email (be sure to check your junk folder) and from clicking the 'Set New Password' link on the resulting email, you'll be directed to a page for you to choose a new password. After you've created a new password, you'll then be re-directed to the original login page where you'll need your email and the password that you just re-created.

We take your personal details and privacy seriously. Your personal details and membership information is held securely in an electronic secure database with encrypted security. We also use secure socket layer technology (SSL) for browsing of the BPCA website.

We do not share, sell or disclose your personal details with anybody and only directors and senior executives of the BPCA have access to your information.

Those at the BPCA who have access to your data may use your data from time to time for the following purposes:

1 - To correspond to you directly about a matter on your account.

2 - To send a newsletter to you that we feel will be of interest to you as a BPCA member (you have the option to unsubscribe from newsletters).

3 - To relay information back to you, should you ask us to investigate something on your account on your behalf.

We will not be using your information other than for the purposes listed above.

We do however update our privacy policy, so please do check back here from time to time on any updates to the handling of your data and your privacy. Please be rest assured however, your privacy and handling of your data is of our highest priority to keep protected and used appropriately.