Category Archives: Grants

Badaguish 2010 This summer I was selected for the BOF Talent Camp in the Cairngorms (basically the new tour for 15-20 year olds), which was held at the Badaguish outdoor centre near Aviemore. It was a fantastic week of training, with the main focus of the week being on how to plan your own training.Continue reading “Chloe Haines – Orienteering – 2010”

I would like to thank the Jack Bloor fund for contributing to my recent Adventureworks expedition to Borneo. After two days travelling we reached Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah, and in order to acclimatize to the heat and humidity we camped at an outdoor activities centre situated outside the city near the beach. ThatContinue reading “Adam Bennett – expedition to Borneo”

Firstly, I have to give a big thank you to the Jack Bloor fund for making this trip a reality. But it all started with a bit of last minute packing, I set off out of York train station, on a train to Edinburgh. Then about half of us met up, at the station, someContinue reading “Lova Chechik – Orienteering training camp to Scotland”

After our efforts of fund raising and tedious inoculations the 19th of July and much-awaited day arrived when a group of twenty fifteen to twenty-five year-olds set off on their five week adventure in India. We started our five week adventure with a flight to Mumbai and stayed in the world guiding centre in PuneContinue reading “Sangam 2009”

Ok well…..after running up the JK relay run-in, I set off  on a coach to London with the rest of the England team. We stayed over night in London and caught a plane mid afternoon to Madrid. We then travel to our hotel about 20mins outside of Madrid and rested. Over the next few daysContinue reading “World Schools Orienteering Championships – two GOLD medals for Florence”

Firstly we would like to express our thanks to you  for the kind and charitable donation you made towards  our fund raising effort to enable us to take part in the Central Yorkshire Scouts Kenya Expedition 2008. With your generous support, we managed to raise all the money we required, so again a big thankContinue reading “Central Yorkshire Scouts Kenya Expedition 2008”

Dear Hilary I am writing to you on behalf of Girl guiding Leeds for the grant of £100 towards the overall group cost of our trip to Denmark. I was fortunate enough to be one of three leaders who took 10 girls away to the Jamboree camp which celebrated the centenary of scouting. Our trip startedContinue reading “Lesley Andrew – Girl Guides trip to Denmark 2007”

My altitude training trip to Colorado Springs began on Tuesday 19th August 2008. The journey was long to say the least being awake for a full 24 hours through, car, plane, coach and bus journeys. After standing under a freeway for half an hour in the dark on my first night ever in America, IContinue reading “Adam Grice – Altitude Training 2008”

Thank you so much to the Jack Bloor Fund for helping make my trip to the Swedish O-Ringen possible. I developed my Orienteering more in the 10 days we were there than I have in 13 years of running round grotty Yorkshire forests! My trip started in Sheffield, at 4am, on my birthday. Going toContinue reading “Aidan Smith – Swedish O-Ringen 2008”

  Jack Bloor Fund, Thank you for the grant you awarded me as part of the cost of my trip to Sangam 2006. The trip was a great experience and I am grateful that I got the opportunity to take part. On 28th July 2006, 28 participants of Girlguiding UK set off for a monthContinue reading “Charlotte Knight and Rachel Pinn – Sangam 2006 – Girl Guides”