Caving calendar
Clubs, organisations and individual cavers are welcome to send details of any forthcoming event for inclusion in the online calendar and reporting in Descent. Dates for archived events are here.
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC HAS CANCELLED VIRTUALLY ALL MEETINGS WORLDWIDE, OTHER THAN THOSE HELD ONLINE USING ZOOM OR SIMILAR SOFTWARE. UNTIL MORE CERTAINTY EXISTS, THIS CALENDAR IS NOT BEING UPDATED
Caving events
| 2020 | ||
| May | ||
| 14 | Kents Cavern and Groundwater Biology meeting | 1.30pm, Kents Cavern, Torquay: talk by Lee Knight and a tour of the caves (advance booking only: organised by the Royal Society of Biology) |
| 15-17 | Second International Early Engines Conference | Black Country Living Museum, Dudley |
| 23-29 | Gaping Gill winch meet | Bradford PC |
| 25 | Spring Bank Holiday (UK) | |
| June | ||
| 4-7 | 14th International Symposium on Pseudokarst | Checiny, Poland |
| 6 | Descent (274) published | |
| 13 | BCRA Cave Science Workshop/field trip | Priddy |
| 13-14 | BCA Party Weekend | Priddy |
| 14 | BCA AGM | 10.30am, Priddy |
| 15-19 | Classical Karst | 28th International Karstological School, Postojna STATUS UNCERTAIN |
| 18-22 | 12th International Mining History Congress | Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada |
| 20 | BCRA field-trip to Arnside and Silverdale | Morecambe Bay |
| 24-27 | 1st Karst Science Forum | Bucharest, Romania |
| July | ||
| 27-31 | NSS Convention | NSS Convention, Elkins, West Virginia, USA |
| 31-2 Aug | 14th EuroSpeleo Forum | Burgos, Spain CANCELLED |
| August | ||
| 1 | Descent (275) published | |
| 1-15 | International Training Camp for Young Speleologists | Blaubeuren-Seissen, Swabian Alb, Germany |
| 14-21 | Gaping Gill winch meet | Craven PC |
| 28-31 | CaveFest | Ebborways Farm, Mendip CANCELLED |
| 29-5 Sept | 19th International Symposium on Vulcanospeleology | Catania, Sicily, Italy |
| 31 | Summer Bank Holiday (UK) | |
| September | ||
| 22-26 | 6th Eurospeleo Protection Symposium | BfN International Academy for Nature Conservation, Isle of Vilm, Germany |
| c. End of month | Hidden Earth | No date set, but event is CANCELLED |
| October | ||
| 3 | Descent (276) published | |
| 8-11 | 26th International Cave Bear Symposium | Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Mannheim, Germany |
| November | ||
| 14 | BCRA Cave Science Symposium | University of Hull |
| 19-22 | Kendal Mountain Festival | |
| 20 | Petzl Underground Session | Within the Kendal Mountain Festival |
| December | ||
| 5 | Descent (277) published | |
| 28 | Substitute bank holiday for Boxing Day (UK) | |
| 2021 | ||
| January | ||
| 1 | Columns Open Day | Ogof Ffynnon Ddu |
| February | ||
| 6 | Descent (278) published | |
| March | ||
| April | ||
| May | ||
| June | ||
| July | ||
| 24-31 | 18th International Congress of Speleology | Lyon, France (dates for this week may alter) |