The Honourable Company of Air pilots is offering Scholarships to assist successful individuals who might otherwise not have the necessary resources to have the chance to experience gliding on a week-long residential course. The Scholarship will cover direct training costs; travel expenses to and from the training centre will be…

Through generous funding from the Royal Aeronautical Society Centennial fund, the BGA are offering 20 scholarships of £300 to young pilots aged 14-21. Applications must be received in the BGA office by the 27th April. the application form can be found here

The 2018 Junior National Gliding Championships & Two-Seat Coaching will be hosted by the Lasham Gliding Society. Entries can be submitted through the competition website here.

The latest edition of the Junior Gliding newsletter is available here

The Royal Aeronautical Society General Aviation Group will be holding their Ann Welch Lecture in London on 25th May entitled ‘UK Junior Gliding – The beginning of the Future’. The presentation, given by Steve Pozerskis will focus on how the BGA has turned a small group of enthusiastic junior pilots…

The Honourable Company of Air Pilots and the BGA are working together to provide funding for a number of young gliding instructor training bursaries. Funding for 2016 is available now. We welcome applications from glider pilots under the age of 25 on application who wish to qualify as either a…

Tom Arscott has won the Gold medal in  the Club Class at the World Junior Gliding Championships which finished today at Narromine in New South Wales with team mate Sam Roddie taking Bronze. Matt Davis and Mike Gatfield finished 10th and 15th respectively in the Standard Class. Going into the…

The Junior Gliding Newsletter October 2015 has been published. You can view it here.

Following a successful first round of funding in 2015, the Honourable Company of Air Pilots has generously supplied further funding for young pilots gliding instructor bursaries in 2016. Full details are included on the application form that can be viewed and downloaded here.

The Royal Aero Club Trust has also announced the recipients of its bursaries for 2015. 17 of the 44 bursaries awarded were for glider pilots, including the Peter Cruddas Foundation Scholarship to Peter Vile (Devon & Somerset GC) to help him in his instructor training. Assistance was provided to two…