Category Archives: Grants

In early August I went to Wales as a volunteer instructor at RLSS UK Camp Survive and Save and then competed in the European Interclub Lifesaving Championships. The Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) is the Drowning Prevention Charity and the UK’s leading provider of water safety and drowning prevention education. Camp Survive and Save is a residential international exchangeContinue reading “2015 European Lifesaving Championships and Camp Survive, Ben Witz”

On the 1st of July the GB team flew out to Norway for the Junior World Orienteering Championships, it was a strange feeling knowing that 9 months of preparation, training and racing had  led to this single week at the start of July. The first race up was the sprint; I wasn’t expecting much inContinue reading “2015 Orienteering, Matthew Elkington, Junior World Championships”

GB team, left to right Lizzy Apsley, me (Georgia Malir), Heidi Davies and Catriona Graves. Photo by Heidi Davies. After winning the European Mountain Running Championships in Gap last year over an up and down course I flew out to Madeira with the GB mountain running team determined not to give up my title easily.Continue reading “2015 Fell Running, Georgia Malir, European Championships”

Conquering the Dragon  Approximately 8pm, Friday 26th June 2015, I entered Carreg Cennen castle and conquered the dragon. For those not in the know, the Dragons Back race is a 300km race, over 5 days, with 16000m of ascent along the spine of Wales. I was one of the lucky ones- out of 300 entries, 140Continue reading “2015 Fell Running, Matt Harmon, Dragons Back Race”

WSOC Turkey Thank you to the Jack Bloor Fund for supporting my trip to the World Schools Orienteering Championships. As you will see from my report below, the opportunity enabled me to experience running in new types of terrain and develop my orienteering skills in a warmer climate which should be very useful for theContinue reading “2015 Orienteering, Laura King, World Schools Orienteering Champs”

Thank you very much to the Jack Bloor fund for helping towards the cost of the World Schools Orienteering Competition. I thoroughly enjoyed it and feel my orienteering has really benefited from the exposure to new terrains. Pippa World Schools 2015 Report, Pippa Dakin 18-24 April, Antalya, Turkey After spending Sunday morning training, getting usedContinue reading “2015 – Orienteering – World Schools Champs – Pippa Dakin”

The Jack Bloor fund has allowed me to take this award alongside my studies, and I will now be able to offer others the opportunity I had when I first came to University, to explore the mountain areas of the UK safely and confidently. We had fairly miserable weather for the first two days ofContinue reading “2015 Mountaineering, Mountain Leader Assessment, Sam Lee”

Thank you for the £100 to help towards Ben’s cyclocross racing costs. We used the money for his entry fees at the National Championships, held in January at Abergavenny. Ben has had a good cross season which has just finished, with quite a few highlights he won numerous Yorkshire races including the Rapha Supercross  atContinue reading “2015 Cyclocross, Ben Turner, 2014 National Series and Championships”

British Exploring Society-Himalayas 2014   On the 22nd of July this year I finally stepped foot on the plane bound for Delhi, the first step of an adventure I had been planning for a long time. Way back in the previous summer I applied for and was accepted on to an expedition headed for Ladakh,Continue reading “2014 Mountaineering – Himalayas – Kim Stephens”

Junior European Cup 2014 My last race for GB as a junior inthe Lommel region of Belgium started with travelling very early on Thursday the 1st with a 3.45am alarm for a 6am flight. The morning was spent relaxing and sleeping and eating in Brussels airport before meeting the rest of the team coming inContinue reading “2014 Orienteering – Junior European Cup – Florence Haines”