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2025 BHW Show of the Year

Preparations for the 2025 show are now well under way and already the Committee have held two meetings in Askern to consider arrangements. The Gala Evening is booked at The Viva Nightclub, and the acts reserved, as well as meetings with the Winter Gardens being ongoing to ensure that all will be in place. Having […]

Text-based stray reporting facility

You can now report a stray GB-rung racing pigeon by SMS text message. You just need to format your message as, for example: ‘GB22L12345 injured’ and text this to 07888 860186. Within a few seconds you will receive a text back giving confirmation of the reported ring number and phone/email contact details for the owner. Make […]

Free RPRA Results Software

The RPRA rolled out a new results software in 2020, which is free to all member organisations. Since that time over 750 organisations have taken advantage of the opportunity. Club Secretaries – to obtain your club’s free copy, please e-mail [email protected], quoting your club name and number, to be added to the installation process. Each […]

Flashback to DDay75 Celebrations

Five years ago RPRA Development Officer, Richard Chambers, travelled to Normandy with NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC), where he met up with Signaller Harry Swann, to show him how to handle pigeons ahead of the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of the Allied landings at Normandy on D-Day, 6th June 1944. On Thursday 6th […]

British Homing World – Submitting Race Results

The British Homing World is a weekly publication for all pigeon fanciers in the British Isles, and to that aim we welcome race reports from every organisation throughout Britain. To simplify the Race Results pages, we updated the automated submission process on the RPRA website, and we ask any Club or Federation that is not […]

Online ordering system

RPRA members and affiliated organisations are able to order rings through our online ordering system. Click on the image on the right to begin. As with the automated transfer system, individual members will need to enter their own RPRA loft number and the e-mail address that we have recorded for them in our membership database. […]

APHA Forms

The APHA has informed us that RPRA clubs and federations are not submitting their APHA Appendix 1 forms, as required.   During the racing season APHA must be informed of your intention to bring together multiple lofts for the purpose of pigeon racing – including marking – under the terms of the General Licence for Bird […]

Pigeon Race for Dementia Action Week 2024

For the 10th year, Cumbria Region RPRA and West Cumbria Memory Services (NHS) organised a pigeon race from Whitehaven Harbour as part of Dementia Action Week. A good turnout of service users and carers greatly enjoyed the occasion.  The six pigeons in the race had all been given names: Lowca Princess Parton Supreme Queen of […]

Automated Transfer System

A reminder that you can transfer GB rings online for FREE!  Click on the button on the right to begin.   In order to transfer rings to another loft, you will need your own RPRA loft number and the e-mail address that we have recorded for you in our membership database (see below on how […]

Royal Patronage

Following the funeral of the late Queen Elizabeth II, a request was sent to Buckingham Palace to ask if HM The King would continue as Patron of the Royal Pigeon Racing Association. With much regret this request has sadly been declined due to the Royal family’s workload. It is our understanding that this does not […]