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”
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World Schools Orienteering Championships – two GOLD medals for Florence
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”
2009 Race Report
Jack Bloor Race Report 12th May 2009 The 24th running of the Jack Bloor memorial race sponsored by The Complete Runner of Leeds Road, Ilkley was run on a delightfully sunny spring evening following a week of dry weather, and a record field of 232 runners enjoyed Ilkley Moor at its best. Conditions were perfectContinue reading “2009 Race Report”
2009 Results
The race senior this year was won by Lizzie Adams and Graham Pearce, congratulations to them. The full results, including the junior races are here
Central Yorkshire Scouts Kenya Expedition 2008
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”
Lesley Andrew – Girl Guides trip to Denmark 2007
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”
Adam Grice – Altitude Training 2008
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”
Aidan Smith – Swedish O-Ringen 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”
Gemma King Memorial
On 6th June 2007 Gemma King suffered a fatal accident during innocent childplay whilst on a family holiday in the Picos de Europa mountains of northern Spain. She was just 11 years old. Gemma lived in Ilkley where she was an enthusiastic member of many local clubs including, Junior Ilkley Harriers, 2nd Ilkley Guides, SportshallContinue reading “Gemma King Memorial”
Charlotte Knight and Rachel Pinn – Sangam 2006 – Girl Guides
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”
Jack Bloor Race & Fund 