Application for a UK Press Card

Your Photo

Your details

BPPA member Yes No

We are authorised at our discretion to issue press cards to non-members, but it may be harder for the Association to verify details for non-members.

Membership number

Title

Sex* Male Female

First name*

Middle names

Last name*

Maiden name

UK citizen* Yes No

Nationality*

Date of birth*

Place of birth*

Country of birth*

Address*

Town*

Postcode*

Phone number*

Email address*

Portfolio website address

About your history as a photographer

How long have you been a professional photgrapher?

How would you describe the BULK of your work?

Currently employed as* Staff Freelance Contract

Name of employer*

Please list up to five publications or agencies for whom you work most, giving an approximate breakdown of the time spent working for each:

Company name:	Contact name:	Company phone:	% of time:

Please provide the name, telephone number and email of two people within the industry who would be prepared to act as referee should we need further proof of your eligibility to hold a UK Press Card issued by the BPPA.

Referee name:	Referee job title:	Referee phone no:	Referee email:

Previous press cards

Do you have a UK Press Card?* Yes No

The United Kingdom Press Card Scheme only permits an individual to hold one Press card at a time. If you currently hold a card issued by anyone other than the BPPA, it is your responsibility to cancel it with the provider. Neither the BPPA or the UKPCA can cancel the card on your behalf.

Please supply the following details:

Issuing authority:	Card number (if known):	Expiry date (if known):

Have you held a UK Press Card? Yes No

Please supply the following details:

Issuing authority:	Period Held:	Card number:	Why you no longer hold it:

Been refused a UK Press Card?* Yes No

Please supply the following details:

Issuing authority:	Date of Application:	Reason for refusal:

Other details

If there are any other details that you feel are pertinent to your application that have not been requested in this document, please give them in the box below.

Terms and conditions

Any UK Press Card issued on behalf of the British Press Photographers’ Association remains the property of the United Kingdom Press Card Authority and can be withdrawn at any time.
The UKPCA Press Card scheme does not allow anyone to hold more than one UK Press Card. If you already have a Press Card and are applying for a BPPA Press Card you must be willing to surrender the other card before a new one can be issued.
The BPPA reserves the right to carry out checks using third party agencies. These may include criminal record checks.
The BPPA will only approve the issue of Press Cards to those applicants that it considers to be full time news gatherers and whose professional practice requires them to identify themselves as such. The exact definition of a full time news gatherer can be a subjective one and the BPPA reserves the right to apply such definitions as the BPPA and UKPCA find applicable.
The Association reserves the right to contact the referees provided and to make enquiries with publications named as sources of either freelance, contract or staff employment in order to determine whether the applicant is a bona fide news gatherer.
Anyone whose application is refused may appeal in writing. Written Appeals will be heard by the BPPA’s full committee whose decision will be final.
All applications must be accompanied by the application fee. The fee will only be accepted in the form of a personal cheque, made payable to "BPPA". The application fee is non refundable, even if an application fails.
Cards will only be issued on payment of a further fee which will be not less than the cost of two years full membership of the BPPA.
The BPPA is committed to ensuring that Press Cards issued in it’s name by The United Kingdom Press Card Authority are used properly and within both the spirit and the letter of the scheme. Holders of Press Cards whose use of that card brings ether the BPPA or the UKPCA into disrepute will have their cards withdrawn either temporarily or permanently.
Applications will be treated in confidence and the application forms will only be available to members of the BPPA’s committee.
Details obtained from application forms will not be kept on file once an application has been processed without the prior permission of the applicant.
The decision of the BPPA will be communicated to the applicant in writing once all external agency checks have been completed a timescale over which The Association has no direct control.

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