To help support our members and participants in these social distancing times, British Orienteering is developing and providing a range of eLearning resources to go alongside our qualifications and awards to support, engage and provide extra information for those who wish to extend their learning.

As a sport, we must work together to resume orienteering responsibly and within the relevant Government guidance.

The International Orienteering Federation (IOF) have recently announced the rearranged dates for the two main junior international competitions, EYOC and JWOC, with them being provisionally tabled now for 6-10th October (JWOC, Turkey) and 23-25th October (EYOC, Hungary). The IOF’s intention is to ma...

To further support clubs and members with returning to orienteering, British Orienteering will be hosting a COVID Safe Q&A Webinar on Tuesday 21 July 2020 at 19:30.  

British Orienteering are delighted to announce today that orienteering will return to England on Saturday 1 August 2020.

British Orienteering has announced that orienteering will return to England on 1st August 2020 (subject to any further restrictions that may be imposed by the government).

Are you looking for some club specific guidance and not sure where to look?

Friday 17 - Sunday 19 July 2020.

By Richard Gamble, Sporting Clubs Coordinator in Northern Ireland

The International Orienteering Federation (IOF) recently announced that Covid-19 impacts meant that the Sprint World Orienteering Championships (WOC) scheduled for Denmark in 2020 was postponed until 2022, and that Russia was no longer able to stage the 2021 European Orienteering Championships in Sp...

Due to the continuing issues around the covid-19 pandemic and the uncertainty about the short to mid-term future of orienteering activities, the Talent & Performance team have made the decision to cancel the Summer Talent Development camp in North Wales and the Pre-JWOC camp in Portugal, both of whi...

Return to coaching: supporting the people you coach and their parents Presented by UK Coaching's Heather Douglas and Paul Thompson, this webinar will explore the topic of returning to coaching, and the practical measures that coaches will have to take, such as designing activities that allow for...

British Orienteering and orienteering clubs around the UK are working together to promote Permanent Orienteering Courses as a way of discovering the outdoors in a socially distanced way.  Some clubs have also developed these virtually, so you can simply complete courses with your GPS smartphone or w...

Tuesday 23 June at 7.30pm sees the next in our back to Orienteering webinar series taking place.   Register today!  

During 2019 and the early part of 2020, a working group of members carried out a thorough independent review of the Performance Pathway Programme for British Orienteering, and considered the future strategy in this area.

Friday 26th to Sunday 28th June 2020 Have you signed up for The British Open yet? What’s involved?

To continue to support clubs planning and rolling out virtual courses following on from our evening webinars, we also now have some handy pre-recorded bitesize sessions (under 30 mins). The first two now available include:

Report by Graham Urquhart, Octavian Droobers.

British Orienteering is delighted to announce the next webinar in the useful series of Lockdown webinars. When:  Monday 15 June 7.30pm - 8.30pm

Tonight sees Peter Hart and the Development Team at British Orienteering hosting a live webinar providing you the opportunity to ask your questions on the Back to Orienteering Action Plan.