Category Archives: Grants

The Jack Bloor fund helped me to complete the Summer Mountain Leader award by contributing costs towards both the training and assessments part of the course. The Mountain Leader award is designed for people who lead groups in the mountains, moorland and hills in the UK and Ireland. My parents have taken me walking inContinue reading “2016 Mountaineering, Matt Harmon, Mountain Leader Assessment”

World Interclub Lifesaving Championships 2016 Report Lifesaving is a sport which tests your fitness in speed events and teaches you potentially life-saving skills allowing you to help people on land and in water. In September I had the opportunity to go and race with Heanor Swimming and Lifesaving Club at the World Interclub Lifesaving ChampionshipsContinue reading “2016 Lifesaving, Ben Witz, World Championships”

EYOC 2016 took place on the 1st-3rd July in Jaroslaw Poland. We arrived late on Wednesday and spent the next day training on a model area. This allowed us to see how they’ve mapped the features and whether they’ve mapped all the detail or not. Unusually the first day of competitions was the long raceContinue reading “2016 Orienteering, Lucy Haines, European Youth Championships”

Lagganlia is a week-long orienteering training camp near Aviemore in Scotland for top year M/W14s and some M/W16s. It has been a goal of mine for a very long time, and I was really pleased when I found out that I was selected. The train journey to Aviemore was a long and tiring one, butContinue reading “2016 Orienteering, Evie Conway, Junior Training Camp”

Lagganlia 2016 Report I was very happy when I realised I had been selected for this year’s Lagganlia tour which is an orienteering training camp in Scotland for M/W14 and some 16’s. The train journey was long and tiring but a lot of us were on the same train from Edinburgh and I began toContinue reading “2016 Orienteering, Laura Harrison, Junior Training Camp”

Lagganlia 2016 My time at Lagganlia was great. I learned more about what I needed to improve, such as relocating. The tips I was given were great and I later tried them out when I got lost on a training course. This would help me in a major event because I could relocate quickly soContinue reading “2016 Orienteering, Adam Thorpe, Junior Training Camp”

JWOC 2016 The Junior World Orienteering Championships (JWOC) has always represented the major goal in my Junior Orienteering Program. 2016 was my final year in the Junior ranks and whilst I have raced for Great Britain at several European Youth Championships and twice at the Junior European Cup, I was determined to go out onContinue reading “2016 Orienteering, Joe Woodley”

EYOC 2016 – Jaroslaw, Poland The European Youth Orienteering Championships is the highest level of competition that I can compete in at my age. Selection for EYOC had been my main goal for the past 2 years after being the reserve in 2014. On 29th June I joined the rest of the team at StansteadContinue reading “2016 Orienteering, Laura King”

After months of training and three sets of selection races in the spring I was fortunate enough to be selected to represent Great Britain at the Junior World Orienteering Championships to be held in the Swiss Alps.  I was selected to race the middle and long distance forest races as well as the anchor legContinue reading “2016 Orienteering, Alice Rigby, Junior World Championships debut”

Warm weather training Alfamar Although running is one of my favourite things to do and has been my main past time since primary school I have always tried to opt out of the track season. The fells and mountains in the Yorkshire Dales and the Lakes can be described as no less than beautiful andContinue reading “2016 Warm Weather Track Training – Caroline Lambert”