Banners Gate Results 30th September
The results of October’s monthly Beginners, Families and Schools Event are available here. More information about the series can be found on the City of Birmingham Orienteering page.
Orienteering Foundation Volunteering Project
Orienteering is very fortunate to benefit from a massive volunteer effort that keeps costs of entry much lower than they would be otherwise and thus makes the sport more affordable to a wider audience. However, there is an anecdotal concern that our volunteers are getting tired and that with an ageing membership, clubs are finding it increasingly difficult to continue to provide activities that they would like to put on. The Orienteering Foundation Sound familiar? Worth looking at in more…
Banners Gate, Sutton Park – 30th September
City of Birmingham Orienteering and Birmingham & Black Country Wildlife Trust invite you to a Beginners Families and Schools Orienteering Event at Banners Gate, Sutton Park on Saturday 30th September 2023. Scroll down to read more or download a pdf here.
Malvern Urban Results
Many thanks to today’s event officials Ian (Organiser), James (Planner) and Richard (Controller) – and of course all the other volunteers without whom these things just wouldn’t happen! We hope you all enjoyed it. Officials’ comments are linked as a pdf file or scroll down to read more. Results, Splits, and Splits by course, are now available, as are Routegadget and Splitsbrowser.
AGM 19th October
The 2023 Annual General Meeting will be held on the 19th October at the Somers Club, Halesowen, B62 0JH; 7.00pm for a prompt 7.30 start. A draft agenda and minutes from the 2022 AGM and 2023 EGMs have been emailed to all members.
WMUL Malvern, 10th September
We are hosting the next West Urban Midlands League event at Malvern on Sunday 10th September. This is an urban area with plenty of variety – everything from parks, formal private gardens, sports grounds to common land and urban streets. Details are available here. Also, take a look at the map from the 2016 event and the photos from 2012 – courtesy of Simon Errington and Wendy Carlyle. The closing date for lower fees is 3rd September so don’t delay,…
West Midlands Relays, 24th September
The West Midland Relays are being held on September 24th at Hednesford Camp on Cannock Chase. Details will be posted on the Walton Chaser’s website here, and there is a Routegadet for the area from 2018 here. Captain Kerstin will need your details (name, age class, si card number/hire) plus any strong views about which leg or class you would prefer to run. Information on the classes is here.
Burton Dassett Hills – WML event
The next West Midlands League event takes place at Burton Dassett on Sunday 3rd September. The area offers good running on a compact but hilly open area with complex contours in the centre. It is located between Banbury and Leamington Spa just a few km south of Junction 12 on the M40. More details are available on the Octavian Droobers website. The closing date for pre-entry to guarantee a map on the course you want to run is this Sunday,…
COBOC emails
Following the merger of COBOC and HOC, we would like to invite all former recipients of the COBOC information emails to sign up to continue to receive monthly updates on local orienteering events and activities.
Bringsty Common, 17th August
The final event in our Summer Series will be on the 17th August at Bringsty Common; click here for details or scroll down to read them online.