To become a member, you firstly need to register on the BTCA 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, LTA accredited coaches have comprehensive insurance cover for their coaching services, but the LTA insurance policy doesn't include cover for the volunteers, parent helpers and assistants that support you in your group tennis sessions. This leaves you, or those volunteers/assistants, personally liable and at financial risk for accidents arising from their instruction within your sessions. The BTCA provide complete peace of mind for your coaching services by covering your volunteers, assistants and parent helpers within your sessions (for up to a maximum of 70 attendees in a single session) for public liability insurance. Our Silver Membership provides this volunteer and assistant cover independently but therefore requires you to remain an LTA accredited member for the insurance cover LTA accreditation provides for protection for yourself. Gold and Platinum BTCA memberships cover you the coach for public liability insurance, employee liability insurance, and property insurance, and covers your assistants and volunteers for public liability insurance too. Aside from bolstering up your LTA accreditation insurance with volunteer/assistant public liability insurance cover, BTCA have carefully selected the most useful member benefits in their packages, including brand & marketing support, legal advice in the event of a dispute within your coaching environment, and, coaching service tech aids (such as the Automated Videoing Assistant) to name just a few, this therefore means there's plenty of good reason to be a BTCA member as well retain LTA accreditation too.

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.

BTCA 2024 will be moving away from issuing certificates and instead, we'll be issuing digital membership cards that get installed to the 'Wallet' app on your phone (assuming you're using an Android or an Apple phone). These membership cards will contain links to the various official documents and how to access your member benefits. However, this feature is not scheduled to be completed until May 2024. In the meantime, you're welcome to request a certificate from us if you require it. simply email pauljessop@btca.uk.com if you require a certificate generated.

As an independent association for coaches, BTCA 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 an LTA, RPT, PTR or other such international coaching qualification (affiliated to a national tennis governing body of that country) so that we can be sure that your less mainstream coaching qualification is valid with us.

No, your volunteers, assistants and parent helpers do not need to be DBS checked or safeguard trained in order to be covered for public liability insurance under BTCA public liability insurance cover. However, it's important to note that these volunteers, assistants and parent helpers are supporting you in your sessions where you, as a trained coach, have the experience and knowledge to spot red flags within your group tennis sessions. Your volunteers and assistants are not covered unless you, as the BTCA member, are part of the group or private coaching session in question. It's also important to note that our insurance cover clauses out molestation, therefore any claims arising as a result of molestation will not be settled under your insurance policy with the BTCA. We therefore strongly advise you to take extra care and diligence in spotting and reporting anything in your sessions that can be considered red flags in this regard.

No, you aren't required to have DBS, safeguarding and first aid training within the last 3 years to join the BTCA. Our linked coaching insurance policies don't require DBS, safeguarding and first aid qualifications within the last 3 years either. However, to become a BTCA 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).

BTCA Silver Membership requires the coach to be LTA accredited in order for the membership tier to be valid when ordered. LTA accreditation needs to be maintained throughout the subscription to the Silver tier too. This is because we are offering a reduced rate membership fee to provide an enhanced insurance "bolt-on" to cover your assistants and volunteers when they support you in your group tennis sessions and any other insurance cover not already covered on your LTA Accreditation insurance policy.

It's the case that the same insurance policy is in place with Silver Membership as with Gold and Platinum. It's all one single insurance policy in place, but our policy has this item:

2.2 - 2.2.1 - Indemnity will not apply where indemnity is provided by any other insurance.

This means that whilst the same policy is in place for all, it won't insure the elements that you are already covered for elsewhere. A copy of the insurance policy and its cover can be seen within your membership area.

If you've been a member with us previously, you should be able to log in to your previously registered account and sign up to a new membership tier with us. There's no need, and important you don't, register with us again creating a duplicate account. If you're unsure whether you're registered with us, simply try logging in with your usual email and password. You can use the forgotten password link to get a new password sent to your email. If you register from scratch and have an existing registration with us, then the system will inform you and not let you create another registration against that email address. You can therefore use the forgotten password link to gain access to your account. Alternatively, feel free to contact us for support and to check your registration status.