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Headtorches On: 2026/27 Night Orienteering

As the clocks go back and the dark evenings draw in, look out your headtorch as night orienteering season is upon us! Many of us orienteers embrace the darker evenings as the perfect opportunity to do some night orienteering. Night orienteering is a great way to improve your navigation skills and get out of the house on a mid-week evening. 

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29th October, 2026 Read more...

November Community Conversation focus on Coaching

Monday 2nd November sees the next of our Community Conversations taking place with a focus on Coaching. Our Coaching and Volunteer Officer, Judy Bell, will lead the session with the focus on providing coaches with the opportunity to share and discuss coaching ideas as well as discussing what opportunities coaches want to develop their capabilities.

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28th October, 2026 Read more...

Orienteering hits the Airwaves

As we were planning our series of Summer of Sport family friendly taster sessions we were delighted when the adverts caught the eye of Rachel Bell, a presenter on BBC Radio Scotland’s Out of Doors program. Out of Doors is broadcast weekly covering features on Scotland’s countryside, nature, wildlife and outdoor activities.

Rachel Bell signed up to bring her family along to Hazlehead Park in Aberdeen to join in the fun and find out more about orienteering. Listen in to hear more about their adventures (the feature on orienteering starts 10 minutes in).

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21st October, 2026 Read more...

Scottish Success at the CompassSport Cup!

Forth Valley Orienteers and Interlopers travelled down to West Sussex to compete in the inter-club championship finals. The Interlopers team narrowly missed out on defending their 2025 CompassSport Trophy title as Borderliners scored just 11 points more to win. However, FVO were victorious in the Cup competition as they beat rival team South Yorkshire for the first time in five years.

Both FVO and Interlopers fielded strong teams for the competition despite the long journey south. Some athletes chose to make it a full weekend of orienteering and took part in a middle race on the Saturday. Others were ambitious in organising transport for an epic one day journey.

The CompassSport Cup finals were held at Pippingford Park which also used for the same event in 2019. The area consisted of open heathland and wooded areas that ensured the courses were fast and competitive. FVO dominated the courses with Hannah Inman, Lucas Baikie, Sarah Rollins, Marcus Pinker, and Alison Cunningham leading their results, and in the open men’s class FVO took up four of the top five positions. Interlopers also had some strong results with Ben Hartman, Claire Ward, and Inis Cheplin winning their classes, and Fiona Eades, Mairi Eades, and Louise Adams all within the top 5 on women’s open.

Ultimately, Forth Valley Orienteers were the most successful club of the day as they scored 2385 points to beat SYO’s 2366. This win comes after five years of patience as FVO have consistently been runners up to their Yorkshire rivals. It also comes seven years after FVO last lifted the trophy which was also at Pippingford Park in 2019.

Interlopers scored 1241 points which secured them second place out of 15 teams competing in the CompassSport Trophy.

Congratulations to all of the Scottish orienteers who travelled south to represent their clubs. Even the cancelled flights home were worth it as FVO and INT were so successful across both competitions.

Full results can be found here. Thank you to Mole Valley Orienteering Club for organising the event.

20th October, 2026 Read more...

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