The BGA Sporting Conference is a free to attend annual conference that in its current format includes a day of presentation on a variety of topics including BGA updates, technical descriptions of new gliders or gliding products, relevant safety and operational detail including airspace, and success stories from various individuals.

Several exhibitors attend in parallel with the conference presentations.
The daytime event is followed by an evening awards and dinner event that is paid for by attendees.

This format has been running for several years now. The BGA recognises that conference attendees tastes and interests evolve, that the majority of glider pilots do not attend, and that the needs and interests of the exhibitors are evolving too.

We are grateful for your involvement in this short survey.

The BGA Sporting Conference Organising Team.

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* 1. Have you attended a BGA sporting conference in the past ten years?

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* 2. If you are new to gliding, you may not have heard about the BGA sporting conference! Please let us know if that's the case. Please select one option.

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* 3. Are you planning to attend the 2025 sporting conference?

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* 4. If you want to attend, but cannot, what prevents you attending? Please choose one option.

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* 5. The BGA sporting conference is for anyone involved in gliding. How many people from your club do you think attended the February 2024 conference?

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* 6. What topics would you like to see at the 2025 BGA sporting conference? Tick all that apply in this incomplete list and use the comment box to add anything else.

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* 7. We think the exhibitors at the BGA conference are a super-important part of the day.

When you are deciding whether to attend or not, how would you rate the importance of having exhibitors at the BGA sporting conference ? Please select one choice.

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* 8. Has meeting an exhibitor at the conference in 2022 or 2023 resulted in you purchasing or ordering an item? If so, please select those items using the categories below.

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* 9. Our feeling is that evening dinner and awards event is popular.

In your view, how important is the dinner and awards event?

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* 10. Do you have any suggestions that would add to the dinner and awards event?

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* 11. We're considering an option of holding the BGA Sporting Conference and the Dinner and Awards at different dates, for example the conference in late autumn and the dinner and awards in, say, late February.

Doing so would give us more flexibility on venues, allow us to extend the daytime event and put more into the evening event.

If that happened (it's only an idea at the moment), how would that influence your attendance? Please select one choice.

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* 12. Testimonial request! To help us to promote the BGA sporting conference, please can you share something that would encourage other people to attend.

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* 13. Now, about you:
In which YEAR to did you begin gliding?

Date

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* 14. Your gliding club name.

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* 15. Please tell us who you are (optional).

This information will only be used to support this survey. We may use it to contact you to follow up on your comments and suggestions. It will not be shared outside of the BGA.

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