British Orienteering are supporting National Fitness Day again this year. We are encouraging all those who have never tried orienteering to download one of over 500 Permanent Orienteering Courses across the UK.
British Orienteering continues to keep our guidelines for event organisers, coaches and participants under review as the government COVID-19 guidance evolve across the UK. Protecting the health of all our participants, members, volunteers and staff, and ensuring that we play our part in suppressing ...
23 September 2020
National Fitness Day, 23 September 2020, is a chance to highlight the role physical activity plays across the UK, helping us raise awareness of its important in helping us lead healthier and active lifestyles. National Fitness Day sees a huge range of activity options enj...
British Orienteering has today launched a new eLearning ‘Introduction to Orienteering’ course for all teachers, outdoor centre staff, group and youth leaders across the UK.
The Toolkit comprises of the UK Coaching Duty to Care ‘Digital Badge’ and supporting coach learning resources set across the five distinct pillars of Duty to Care:
As a coach, you have a duty to care for every individual you support and interact with. This should be the golden thread that runs through every aspect of your coaching, as you strive to meet people’s physical, social, emotional and psychological needs.
UK Coaching has launched a new toolkit that will ensure the nation’s coaches are equipped with the knowledge and skills to provide great coaching experiences to others, and support them as coaches to better look after themselves as they return to coaching after COVID-19 restrictions are relaxed.
Report by Pauline Tryner (Organiser) and Dom Dakin both who are members of South Yorkshire Orienteers
Graves Park was our second local evening event run under the new COVID guidelines, but the first on council-owned land. The first was an urban sprint held at Sheffield University’s currently empty...
Leicestershire Orienteering Club (LEI) have traditionally run a series of 18-20 summer evening events, so the opening up of Orienteering was a chance to salvage something from the summer.
One of the Starts
Steve Corrigan from Eborienteers, says: "We had a successful Regional Event at Skipwith Common on Sunday 30 August 2020 with 240 competitors. To accommodate everyone safely we used two separate starts and extended the start times from 10:30am to 13:45am."
British Orienteering regrets to announce the cancellation of the 2021 JK Festival of Orienteering. JK 2021 was due to be organised in Devon and Cornwall over the Easter weekend by members and clubs from the South West Orienteering Association.
