The aim of the club is to provide affordable flying in order to introduce as many members as possible to unpowered flight.

Flying takes place all year-round on weekends and bank holidays at RAF Cranwell, though several expeditions to other gliding sites are organised throughout the year.

The founding member was Mr Brian Spreckley, then an undergraduate at the university, and subsequently the 1987 World Gliding Champion.

Then, in 2005 he was also the recipient of the FAI Paul Tissandier Diploma for services to gliding.

The club's founder, Mr Brian Spreckley, has gone on to become a Gliding World Champion (see club history above), and ex-committee-member Mr David Bromley was the 2017 UK national champion in the standard class,[10] placed 5th in the 2015 European standard class championship, and 13th in the 2018 standard class World championship.