Website Menus

The Renewed website has five menu items. Each menu set has a landing page with links to all pages under that menu. There is information located on most of these pages.

BCPA – This menu provides you basic information about the British Columbia Pipers’ Association now and historical. You will find all contact information, constitution, bylaws, rules, policies and music requirements. We also have information about adjudicators and volunteer options. From this menu you can view old newsletters, email communications and minutes. In addition we have the links to the photo gallery, the calendar and a donation portal. All of these are also found on the quick links.

Members – This menu provides information about membership and highlights our members including the honourary patron, life members, presidents and our bands. The band area of this menu area is under development but we intend it to be an area where you can find a band in your area.

Competitors – This menu provides information for new and existing competitors including basic information about what is involved in competing. It has lists of schedules of competitions, information guides, registration links, order of play and result information as well as links to results.

Competitions and Events – This menu provides the place where all competition information and information about events will be published. The competitions include the BCPA sponsored competitions of the mini gatherings in November and February and the Annual Gathering at Easter each year. The BCPA Sanctioned Highland Games will be each highlighted. We will also include invitational or special competitions and events as part of this menu Competitions and Events

Development – This menu will provide information about both BCPA and other development opportunities. It will also contain bursary information.

BCPA

  • Contact us – contacts for the board of directors, committee contacts and other contact information
  • History of BCPA – historical information from the inception of BCPA
  • Organizational Information – Constitution, Bylaws, Policies, Rules, Music requirements
  • Adjudicators – information about approved adjudicators and forms for applying to become an adjudicator
  • Volunteers – information about Steward volunteers and other volunteer opportunities
  • BCPA Communications –
    • Newsletters – history of Newsletters and links to archival newsletters,
    • Emails sent to all members
  • Donations –
  • Calendar – calendar entries for BCPA events
  • Photo Gallery – access to photos from many BCPA events.

Members

  • Membership – information about membership and links to renewing or applying for membership
  • BCPA Honourary Patron – bio and pictures
  • Presidents of BCPA – Full list of all past and present Presidents
  • Life and Honourary members
  • Affiliated Pipe Band Associations
  • Pipe Bands – this area is under development.

Competitors

  • New competitor information – everything about beginning to become a competitor within BCPA
  • Solo Competitor information – Information about preparing for competitions, Competition day information, links for registering for games and rules and music requirements for competition events. Links for explanation of games and grand aggregate calculations
  • Competition Schedule – dates of current year’s competitions with links to information pages
  • Information Guides – a page information for all competitions as they become available.
  • Register for Competition – a page with all registration links for games as they become available
  • Order of Play – one page with all order of play as they are prepared for the games
  • Event Schedule – one page with all schedules for competitions as they become available.
  • Competition Results Information – description of how results are compiled especially the grand aggregate results.
  • Results – Link to the results page which contains all results and grand aggregate results as each competition ends.

Competition and Events

  • Mini Gatherings
  • Annual Gathering
  • BCPA Sanctioned Games – one page per games
  • Boney Music Memorial Invitational
  • RSPBA Drum Competition

Development

  • Bursaries – information about bursaries with applications
  • Online Seminars
  • Learn to play information
  • Schools