The club publishes a regular professionally printed newsletter containing a round up of members’ caving trip reports, news, reviews, photos and more. This is currently being produced quarterly and is sent to club members as well as UK and international caving clubs in a publication exchange scheme.
All newsletter issues from year 2000 onwards are available on this website as PDF files, and can be downloaded by volume and issue number using the Newsletter Archive page.
Latest Issue
Volume 67 Nos. 4-6, April-June 2025
- Old Daren Sunday School - News of the opening of the Old Daren Sunday School, now available for use by club members.
- Darenathon - A multi-challenge event in the Daren entrance series, raising funds for the SMWCRT and helping the Daren Clean-Up project.
- Hard Rock Extensions - Flooding Update - News of the re-opening of the route to the Hard Rock Extensions.
- St Cuthbert’s Swallet, September Series - A Friday evening trip to some lesser-visited wonders of St Cuthbert’s Swallet on the Mendip Meet.
- Wookey Hole, Land of Hope and Glory - Dog-tooth crystals and large caverns in the Land of Hope and Glory extensions in Wookey Hole.
- Upper Flood Swallet - Report from one the of the big Saturday trips of the Mendip Meet, a visit to the wonders of Neverland in Upper Flood Swallet.
- Home Close Hole - An SRT trip to Home Close Hole in Mendip.
- G.B. Cave - The fourth trip taking place on the Saturday of the Mendip Meet, a journey around the ever-popular G.B. Cave.
- Shatter Cave - A caving trip to this well-decorated cave in Fairy Cave Quarry, Mendip.
- Wookey 24 - The second caving trip to Wookey Hole during the Mendip Meet, a sporting descent to Wookey 24.
- Withyhill Cave - A second team visited Fairy Cave Quarry with a trip to the equally well-decorated Withyhill Cave.
- Swildon’s Hole - No visit to Mendip would be complete without a visit to Swildon’s.
- CSS Meets 2025 - Upcoming CSS Meets July to December 2025.
- A Prospecting Visit to Dudwell Farm Shaft - An exploration of this minor shaft in Mendip.
- A Plea for the Humble Pencil - An article full of cave art and ideas on how you can create your own masterpiece evoking scenes of subterranea.
- Recent Work at Whitewalls - Many improvements have been made to the members’ bunkroom and kitchen recently, but what has been done and why did we do it
- Mystery Pot - A New Cave in Wales - Check out what's been going on in Mystery Pot in this YouTube video.
- Return to Quarter Way Up Hole - Digging activities, geology and the discovery of a woolly rhino skull in Quarter Way Up Hole, in Fairy Cave Quarry, Mendip.
- If You Go Down To The Woods Today - Animal activities captured on camera in the woodlands by Ogof Tarddiad Pwll Du.
- Friends Reunited - A chance encounter leads to a trio reunited and a tour of cave entrances on a weekend at Whitewalls.
- My Easter Weekend - A weekend of caving in Draenen and digging in Mendip.
- Self Draining Caving Wellies - The ultimate fashion accessory for all cool cavers.
- Quarter Way Up Hole Part 2 - The Dig - Digging progress at Boycott’s Bonnet in Quarter Way Up Hole, Mendip.
- Library News - Recent additions to the CSS library.
- A Tribute to Trevor Knief - Obituary for Trevor Knief who passed away February 2025.
- Windrush, An Underground Cotswold Stone Quarry - A new book about this interesting underground site in Gloucestershire.
- CSS Western Section Annual Dinner 2025 - The annual dinner of the CSS Western Section and a look back at its formation 50 years ago.
- Caving in the Outer Hebrides - A tour of minor caves on the Scottish isles of Barra, South Uist and Vatersay.
Previous issues of the CSS Newsletter are available in the archive