Category Archives: Grants

Liam Rowe, Climbing Wall Instructor Having Initially applied to the Jack Bloor Fund for funding to help with the cost of completing a Single Pitch Award in order to help the University Mountaineering society, I was delighted to learn that the trust awarded me £50 in order to help pay towards the cost of theContinue reading “2018 Mountaineering, Liam Rowe, Climbing Wall Instructor”

A broken finger caused a few issues earlier this year . . but not for too long! Oliver was soon back in business after careful assessment and a recovery program and is now training hard again at full strength. Main picture: Oliver from the team shoot earlier this year aged 9. Oliver and I wouldContinue reading “2018 Rock Climbing, Oliver Knox-Renshaw, BMC Youth Championships”

UCPA Intro to Alpine Mountaineering – Chamonix, France Sophie Walker Sport climbing in the Chamonix valley Challenging, inspiring and breathtaking… these words can be used to describe both the scenery in Chamonix, in the French Alps, as well as the incredible course that I participated in whilst I was there. My first experience of mountaineeringContinue reading “2018 Mountaineering, Sophie Walker, Intro to Alpine Mountaineering”

With the money that was kindly given to me by the Jack Bloor fund I was able to attend the national cyclocross championships in Hetton in January. It was a tough event meaning I had to change my bike every lap, but thanks to the funding given I was able to make sure that lContinue reading “2018 Cyclocross, Sophie Thackray, National Championships”

My 2017/18 season was filled with a mixture of results but a lot of lessons learnt and some more international experiences. Being 20 years old and racing in the elite women’s race is tough, it takes a rider a few years to find there feet and to start seeing the results they want. I amContinue reading “2018 Cyclocross, Amira Mellor, Belgium race training”

My last part of the season was geared to selection to the World Championships, so l needed to perform well at the National Championships.  I had a strong start leading the first laps then Tom Pidcock attacked and gained around 10 seconds, the gaped stayed around this for most of the race, l came secondContinue reading “2018 Ben Turner, Cyclocross, World Championships”

Nathan Marsh – Running onto the elite stage and the role of a training camp After seeing my running improve significantly over the 2016/17 season I was very grateful to receive support from the Jack Bloor Fund to start the summer off on a high with a training camp to Vilamoura, Portugal. This is myContinue reading “2017 Athletics, Nathan Marsh, XC training”

“10,9,8”… Why am I doing this?… “7,6,5”… Have I done enough training?… “4,3,2”… Is this actually about to begin?… “1”… GO. Those are my usual thoughts before I start any race, and the World Duathlon Championships were not any different. Well, apart from the fact it was obviously the World Champs. AND it was situatedContinue reading “2017 Triathlon, Robbie Lightowler, World Duathlon and Aquathon Championships”

Morzine training camp – July 2017 On the first day we arrived at the chalet and built our bikes. Since I had never built my bike before I learnt a lot. We did an 11mile hill climb upto Avoriaz, 3,759ft of climbing, a total of 22miles and 2hrs and 15mins of riding. The average gradient wasContinue reading “2017 Triathlon, Emma Beckwith, Morzine Training Camp”

 European Standard Distance Championships – Soria, Spain 30th April 2017 I trained extremely hard over winter for a sporting journey that began in March 2016 at the Clumber Park, the qualification race. Apart from an injury the month before my preparation had gone very well. I was amazed to discover that I had the motivationContinue reading “2017 Triathlon, Emma Beckwith, European Duathlon Championships”