Category Archives: Grants

The trip started with a 4am wakeup call and before I’d woken up fully the entire England team consisting of 40 athletes and 8 coaches were airborne and headed for Portugal. Two years ago I went to the World Schools in Trentino Italy; it was one of the best trips of my life, I couldn’tContinue reading “2013 World Schools Orienteering Championships – Joe Woodley”

World Schools Orienteering Championships-Portugal April 2013 After a qualifying event in November 2012 I was selected to run in the world schools orienteering championships along with 4 other girls my age, in a squad of 40 from England. There were 21 countries from all around the world, including New Zealand, China and Mozambique: with aContinue reading “World Schools Orienteering Championships-Portugal April 2013”

On 6-10 August 2012 I went on a performance climbing course partly funded by the Jack Bloor Fund. The course was held at the Plas y Brenin Centre in North Wales which is the national mountain centre. This centre is used by many people of all ages and abilities for numerous outside activities. On theContinue reading “Alex Hall – Plas y Brenin 2012”

From the 28/07 to the 04/08 I went on a residential to Outward Bound Ullswater, I initially did it as my Duke of Edinburgh award scheme requires me to go on a residential. I first found an advert for the Jack Bloor fund in the Fellrunner, this encouraged me to apply for the money whilstContinue reading “Annie Roberts – Serious Adventure Course 2012”

Junior World Orienteering Champs                Florence Haines On the 6th of July I flew out to Slovakia with the rest of the Great Britain team for a week in Košice. After a hot sleep we went to the long model training. I found this really useful because the terrain was so different toContinue reading “Florence Haines – Junior World Orienteering Champs”

Lagganlia Tour of 2012 Lagganlia was an exciting orienteering training week for M14s selected from throughout Britain. We had experienced coaches who had competed at the top level in orienteering so there was a lot of great advice for us to learn from. My two coaches were Jonny and Rodger and I learned masses fromContinue reading “Ruaridh Mon-Williams Orienteering 2012”

European Youth Championships 2012 This year I was selected to represent Great Britain at EYOC, in Bugeat France. Leading up to the event I was excited but also fairly nervous seeing as it was my first international competition for GB. On the day the rest of the team were travelling by Euro-star from London, IContinue reading “Joe Woodley – Orienteering 2012”

I would like to thank you for the grant that I received via the Jack Bloor fund. This money enabled me to participate in the English Schools Fell Running Championships held in Cockermouth and the Home Internationals for Mountain Running at Llanberis. The race at Llanberis was amazing an experience, despite my disappointing result. IContinue reading “Charlotte Edge – Fell Running 2011”

  Here is the report that I wrote after coming back from Italy. Thank you again for the funding, I really enjoyed the whole experience and it was an amazing week! Katherine

I would like to say a massive Thank You to the Jack Bloor Fund for supporting me in competing in the WMRA Grand Prix Series in Europe. With the support of the fund I was able to fly out to Italy and France to compete against some of the best athletes in Europe.  Not knowingContinue reading “Emma Clayton – WMRA Series – 2011”