Category Archives: Grants

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”

Nepal Expedition: Light Up Limi Valley Wharfedale Scouts Nepal 2007 In August 2007, a group of Wharfedale Scouts embarked upon an expedition in Nepal to install 50 solar panels to the roofs of home in a remote village of ‘Til’, in the Himalayan Mountains. The whole trip took thirty days, including a few days eitherContinue reading “Wharfdale Scouts – Nepal expedition – Light Up the Limi Valley 2007”

I am writing to thank you for your donation of £75 which helped me to go to the world schools orienteering trip to Slovakia. It was a thoroughly enjoyable trip where I finished 7th in the Classic race and 10th in the Middle distance. My team was 3rd overall. Please thank all who were involvedContinue reading “Hector Haines and George Stevens – World Schools Orienteering Championships in Slovakia – April 2006”

Dear the Jack Bloor Fund, I am just writing an email to say thank you for your very kind grant that you made towards my trip to Slovakia to compete in the World Schools Orienteering Championships. It was a really great week packed full of competitions and celebrations and I am so pleased that IContinue reading “Robert Kelly and Jack Wood – World Schools Orienteering Championships, Slovakia, April 2006”

Uppsala tour report  The tour was very successful, and I took away a lot, not least an amazing boost in confidence both in running and in orienteering. The races were also good, and I was pleased to be at the top most of the time. My orienteering has definitely benefited, I can now run atContinue reading “Hector Haines – Uppsala Orienteering Camp – Sweden 2006”

‘On Top of the World’ (nearly!) down-under – Mary Wilkinson  The 2005 Mountain Running World Trophy in Wellington, New Zealand provided those involved with the opportunity to test their running skills against the best mountain runners in the world in an amazing country. Once the 30 plus hours of travel had been negotiated, the courseContinue reading “Mary Wilkinson – Mountain Running World Trophy, Wellington, New Zealand – September 2005”

I’m pleased to say the trip to Portugal went really well. This is the first time I have been warm weather training and it was so good to train with a group of quality athletes. I managed to stick to my programme, but modified some of the sessions to enable me to do some trackContinue reading “Mark Buckingham – Warm weather athletic training camp, Portugal, March 2005”

Thank you for the £25 you gave me towards my summer training tour for orienteering. The tour was very good – we trained hard every day and did a lot of practice in compass work and contour reading. I competed in the scottish 6 day event after the tour and came 2nd overall, winning onContinue reading “George Stevens- Scottish orienteering training camp, July 2005”

  Thankyou very much for the money that you donated towards my lagganlia trip.It was a great week of training and I felt it benefited my orienteering skills. We did training exercises 3-4 times a day in and around lagganlia. The areas were very technical and made us work hard. At the end of theContinue reading “Chloe Haines – BOF Lagganlia orienteering training camp, Scotland, July 2005”